The Aeolian Harp...and other stories

The Aeolian Harp
This is a picture of an Aeolian Harp,
an instrument with wire strings played by the wind. It is also the title of a poem by Coleridge.
Lesley and I had the quite strange experience of walking over the very top of the Quantock Hills and hearing music that we could not identify -- we were quite a long way from any farm buildings or any other habitation at this point. We only identified the music when we visited Dove Cottage at Grasmere in the Lake District (home to William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy-Coleridge was a frequent visitor). The Dove Cottage Museum has headphones over which we heard...yes, you guessed it, the music of an aeolian harp.