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It has been entered into the St Ayles Skiff World Championships in Loch Broom, near Ullapool, in July. St Ayles skiffs are rowing boats measuring 22ft long and 5ft 6in in breadth and built to the design of a traditional Fair Isle skiff. .
Moravian Academy in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, created the Sephira. Woodwork teacher and artist Michael Brolly, who previously work with harp inventor Bill Close on another project, was heavily involved in constructing the skiff.
Watch the video of The Sephira being played in this performance here.
Mr Brolly said: "Once we had the boat built and the strings on, and the students heard how cool it sounded, it was just a hop, skip and jump to get one of the really smart talented ones interested in seeing if he could figure it out. And I must say it only took him a couple of hours to figure out how to tune and play it." The Skiff World Championships will be held from 8-14 July.
4 comments:
You can't hear the noise the "boat" makes for the god-awful racket the rest of them are making.
Heh, that's true!
It looks quite impressive, though. :)
Completely unrelated, have you seen this, BoS?
http://www.acdc.com/us/news/bon-scott-statue-kirriemuir
Just saw your reply. Yeah, I saw the story on the BBC. It's beyond time that statue was built. Might send a few quid myself and I really do need to get along to Bonfest sometime, sounds like my kinda weekend!
I hope it gets the go ahead!
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