What do you think of this instrument and the forgotten science of harmonics in general?

Question

http://www.lambdoma.com/tetraharp.html

Answer 1

"what do you think of this instrument "

I'd have to hear it played so I'll reserve judgement.

"the forgotten science of harmonics in general"

Science has not forgotten harmonics.

: )

Answer 2

I thought it was kind of neat until I read.

"A musical instrument of the Tetra-harp¹s design may help awaken awareness to the cosmic plan."

Then I stopped reading.

But I still think the harp is kind of neat.

Answer 3

I didn't know Miss Bekki had another pasttime besides answering yahoo questions and voting for herself multiple times.

The Greek octave had a mere five notes. Pythagoras pointed out that each note was a fraction of a string. Lets say you had a string that played an A. The next note is 4/5 the length (or 5/4 the frequency) which is approximately a C. The rest of the octave has the fractions 3/4 (approximately D), 2/3 (approximately E), and 3/5 (approximately F), before you run into 1/2 which is the octave. Many of the ancient Greek harps (kitharas) had six strings corresponding to these notes. (Kitharas, like all things preindustrial, were hand made and string lengths and count were never standardized, but six strings based on these simple ratios were probably popular choices.) Also, for you music experts, note that the scale is a "minor" scale, which we associate today with sounding sad or tragic. A perfect scale to accompany most Greek plays