The sound pillar, sound column / Anapurna

This instrument achieved its form through my desire to bring together in one instrument different phenomena of under and over tones, produced by the sound of the strings.

on first sight you find a visually very pleasing, finely chiselled triangular obelisk, which can be played upright on its 3 or alltogether 6 “feet”, or lying on its side.

the sound expands from the c-sharp in sound and space into all directions without ending ...

With three play-surfaces: monochord, 21 strings as described above in c-sharp, monochord, 21 strings c-sharp and g-sharp, the fifth alternately and the tamboura, the first four strings like the traditional tamboura and in addition 7 more bass c-sharps.

The wood comes from the Elsberry, known as the swiss peartree and a  native wild cherry, the resonant surfaces are mad from fir sound-boards.

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