Consider, gentle listener, the chordophone family of musical instruments. It's a large, diverse brood including almost anything with stretched strings: zithers, lyres, harps, lutes, guitars, the violin family, hundreds of ethnic string instruments like the Japanese koto and the African kora, and not least — keyed zithers like the harpsichord and the piano.
Chordophones can be plucked, strummed, bowed, keyed, or struck. Looking back in time, zithers, lyres and harps were the foundational instruments of the chordophone family. They were used in antiquity to accompany recitations and promote healing.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we ride the soft strings of the harp and zither to a place close to silence, on a program called 'CHORDOPHONICS.' Music is by PETER STERLING, HARP 46, LYSA LYNNE, DA WO's, HAROLD BUDD, CYMBER LILY QUINN, KLAUS WIESE, and LARAAJI.
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This program is my FAVORITE of all time, and I have been a listener since the mid-eighties! Sooo very soothing and peaceful.
Best wishes to Stephen Hill and Leyla -- I hope both are doing well. Your decades of work on Hearts of Space is much appreciated.
Posted by: Carolyn Hitt | 25 May 2025 at 04:28 AM
Thank you, Carolyn, for your kind comment and years of dedicated listening!
Safe Journey :: SH
Posted by: Stephen Hill | 03 June 2025 at 07:41 PM