Custom Laser Harps and Custom Laser Harp Installations

The Finest Custom Laser & Light Beam Harps in the world.

For Installation in your Science and Technology Center, or Children`s Museum.

 For Spectacular Performances on Stage with your Custom Laser Harp, or
'Infinite Beam', Laser Harp Controller.

For playing on stage as a midi performance instrument, your Laser Harp can be custom designed to fit your needs in just the size and configuration that you desire. I can also build you a harp with strings, that is also electro-acoustic, with lasers installed as well.

For installation in your Science or Children`s Museum, I can design a compact lap or floor sized laser harp that looks just like a harp. Or I can design for you a laser harp installation in a shape that is very sculptural and stream lined. For example in a large open "C" shape, or any other shape that you have in mind.

Or for a entirely different approach, your Laser Harp installation could be in the shape of a grand old Oak tree, carved from figured Maple or Myrtle wood, with the lasers shinning down from the branches, onto the sensors in the exposed tree roots !

Let me know all your ideas and design requirements, I look forward to bringing your special Laser Harp project to Life, for All your Educational, entertainment or stage performance needs.

The Laser Harp shown above on the left is a custom 28 Laser harp with both Red and Green Lasers. Shown with theatrical haze

The harp at right and at bottom,  is a custom carved laser harp, with 8 red lasers, created for the 'Strong National Children`s Museum of Play', in Rochester NY. It was created to be "The Giant`s Harp", from "Jack and the Beanstalk

I custom build very special Multi-media MIDI harps that have red or green laser beams instead of strings. I build two types of laser and light beam harps, 'framed' and 'infinite beam versions. I use low powered 5mw red and green lasers, which are referred to as Class II lasers, which are safe for public interaction with, when installed in a laser harp.

This is a Carved Myrtle wood Laser Harp with 8 green Lasers. It is currently for sale and available for $15,000, complete with software and all multimedia control equipment, ready to hook to a Laptop computer and sound system. This harp is about 38 inches tall, designed to be installed on a about a 4 for high cabinet.

Laser Harp shown here above.

This is a custom carved Laser Harp, made form Oregon Myrtle wood,  with 7 green lasers, designed, and carved for the "Jewish Children`s Museum", in Brooklyn New York.

 It is carved to resemble,  as if it is made from part of a living Olive tree, with olive leaves and fruit, and with gilded gold highlights to the carving..There are three buttons, with the active one lit up, that change the music played, form one traditional Jewish Melody to another. The laser beams are set sop that there music is played in the correct order, with the speed of play determined by how fast the laser beams are broken. The Hebrew inscription says, "King David, Blessed by G_d."

'Framed' Laser Harps

In this type of laser harps, the lasers shine onto optic sensors, located on the "sound board" of the harp. The lasers are located in the neck of the harp, shining down on the "string rib". The lasers are generally set about 2 to 3 inches apart, (the spacing can be customized, depending on how you wish to use the harp).

 A 'framed' laser harp can be designed and created in almost any shape or size that will allow a stable beginning and end point for the laser beam and it`s sensor. And that will allow you to break that laser beam, and thus trigger the midi event or sound you have programmed, with your hand or in any other way.

A room sized installation could be designed and custom built, with the lasers shining down from an elevated structure, down to sensors set on the floor, or from one wall to another.

I can build these harps in any style and size, and I can also create a carved and sculpted laser or light beam harp that has a 'look' or style like any of the many custom harps I have built over the last thirty years.

 These harps are usually designed and built to be in a harp-like shape, but almost any possible shape or style, size or configuration is possible. Let me know what design, or  concept you might have in mind! A room sized installation could be designed and custom built, with the lasers shining down from an elevated structure, down to sensors set on the floor, or from one wall to another.

 Custom Laser harp with 8 red lasers, created for the "Children`s Hospital of the King`s Daughters", in Virginia Beach Virginia, 2008.

'Infinite Beam' Low power laser, Laser  Beam Harps

I am working on some new designs for using  lasers beams in what is referred to as an infinite beam type laser beam harp. In this type of harp the lasers  beams are pointed up in a fan shaped pattern, fanning out away from each other, from a compact harp body. In this type harp the laser beams are reflected back to optic sensors set into the body of the harp. The number of sensors is only limited by the number of midi channels in the midi controller system hooked up to the harp. the usual is 8, 16 or 32 channels. the number of light or laser beams in this type of harp can be from 8 to 12. For a laser beam harp like this the most common choice is for a low powered, pulsed green laser

Micro Adjustable laser Mountings

 The most important thing with an Laser Harp, is that the frame or body of the harp, that supports the lasers and the optic sensors must be perfectly stable, in order to maintain the perfect aim of each laser to it`s optic sensor. I use micro adjustable aiming fixtures, to allow the lasers to be easily adjusted to be on target to the sensors.

I can custom design the height and size of your own Laser Harp, to fit your individual playing style and travel needs. Please inquire with me about your needs and ideas !

In its simplest form, a Laser Beam Multi-media MIDI Harp, is a light controlled switch. When a beam is interrupted and broken, or reflected back to an optic sensors, in the 'infinite beam' type, a signal is created, which activates previously selected events.