Inspired by the swan ships taken from the tales by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Sculpture:
swan´s head made of maple-wood and beak of cherry-wood; inlay work
made of ebony-wood; eyes made of citrine crystals; neck of harp in the
shape of a wing with chip-carved plume and gold-plated upper edge with
spiral; relief carving at the foot
of the pillar; pins made of ebony with mother-of-pearl eyes; to the left
and right of the resonance box - wings as inlay work made of silver-coloured
maple-wood with incorporated sound holes. Neck and column made of massive
maple-wood.
33 strings, ranging from C to g3
string material: Carbon fibre and gut
complete set of semitone levers made of cast bronze pillar and neck: maple
wood
sound box: cherry wood
height 178 cm weight approx. 12 kg