Laser Harp in New Children`s Hospital Helps Children Relax When They Come For Exams.

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Phoenix Oregon, Dec 14, 2008
by Glenn J Hill of Mountain Glen Laser Harps LLC.

Children play harp music, Beethoven`s "Ode To Joy", and Jungle sounds on custom laser harp in a new Virginia Children`s
Hospital.The new "Children`s Hospital of the King`s Daughter`s", in Virginia Beach VA, features a custom laser
beam harp for the children to play when they come for exams. This Laser Harp is designed to help the children relax when they come in for their exams. Any kind of music or sampled sounds can be played by breaking the eight red laser beams.

The roar of a Lion and an Elephant`s trumpet echo down a hospital`s corridor, followed by the sounds of
Jungle frogs, a wolf`s howl and drums! Is it an invasion of this new Children`s hospital by wild animals?
No it is just the custom carved laser harp installation created by Glenn Hill of Mountain Glen Laser Harps
LLC , www.laserharps.com, being played by children coming in to have their exams. The jungle sounds are now followed by
gentle cascades of harp notes, falling in overlapping waves every time a laser beam in broken by a child`s
hand. This gentle sound is followed by the sound of ocean waves with gulls and seabirds filling the halls.
And then for the occasional hospital staff party, the harp can be programed to be a laser "Virtual DJ", with
samples of James Brown and other rock & blues music that can be played like a "record scratch", just like
DJ`s do!

This amazing harp was created to entertain children when they come to the new hospital for exams, and the
biggest worry of the hospital staff was that the children would not want to leave the harp to head toward the
exam rooms!

This laser harp was commissioned by the "Children`s Hospital of the King`s Daughter`s", in Virginia
Beach Virginia. This brand new branch Hospital was opened to the public in early November of 2008. The
Children`s Hospital of the King`s Daughter`s" is the facility of choice for pediatric care in southeastern
Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.

These low powered and very safe 5mw red lasers are suspended between the frame of a purple dyed ,
highly figured Maple, lap-sized harp. They shine in space between the "neck" and "sound box" of the harp,
in the same way that harp strings do, except that these strings are made of red laser light.This child sized lap
harp sits on it`s own small cabinet that holds a lap top computer, MIDI controller and stereo sound system,
all that is needed to create almost any type of sound or music imaginable.
The software that runs the laser harp is fully programmable, with the capacity to respond to up to 70
breaks of a laser beam every second, and each laser can have up to 60 different events or sound effects
programed to be controlled by it. The interactive software and MIDI controller was invented by OptiMusic. www.optimusic.com

This laser harp can play almost any type of sampled natural sounds or music, or any musical instrument a
synthesizer can produce, and in endless interwoven combinations that can boggle the mind. It is fully
programmable with a full wave-file editor and built-in synthesizer. The software has a full library of music
and sounds, and any type of sounds can be loaded and edited.

The software can also trigger still and video images, controlled by the laser beams, though in this
installation that part is not being used. The custom laser harps that Glenn Hill builds can be in any shape
and style, with from eight to thirty two lasers, with both red and green lasers.
The "Strong National Museum of Play", in Rochester New York has a custom carved laser harp that they
commissioned Glenn Hill to build in 2006. Their laser harp is five feet tall, and carved out of gilded Myrtle
wood, to be the "giant`s Harp", from "Jack and the Bean Stock". It has a beautiful female face and head,
with flowing locks of golden hair across it`s top, and a flowing gilded gown draping down the harp`s pillar.
It is installed in the museum`s "Adventures in Reading" exhibit. This laser harp also has eight red lasers,
and has been enjoyed by millions of children over the last nearly three years.

Glenn J. Hill of Mountain Glen Harps LLC has been building custom designed , carved and sculpted
one-of-a-kind harps for over thirty years. From harps with single string bands of nylon, gut or wire strings,
to double and cross strung harps, to electro-acoustic and MIDI harps, Glenn has designed and created the
widest array of harps of any builder anywhere.Creating custom one-of-a-kind carved and sculpted harps with, nylon, gut and wire strings, for over thirty years. Making single, double and cross strung harps in all sizes from 10 to 42 strings. Custom laser beams MIDI harps, with red and green lasers.

Contact: Glenn J. Hill phone: 541-535-7700 fax:541-535-5657 skype: glenn.j.hill

809 1st Street, Phoenix Oregon, 97535 USA www.mountainglenharps.com www.laserharps.com