I've been working on this for a few days now, re-creating the head and hand. The question I have is if anyone would spend five dollars for it? If not, I'll finish it to the point that I need it and be done, but if there IS interest, I'll polish it up, add the new hands and head, and put it on the market. I've never put anything in the market, so I honestly don't know. Thanks for the input ~ Rich

I would be interested, but I don't like the hand. Let me know what you decide to do. (:

Any suggestions? I was creating this to the scale that the figure sat inside the curve of the harp, I placed the hand as a seat, but I'm also not happy with it. :) Not sure to replace it, re-design it, or just plain scrap it and rescale it to be more of a hand held, or fill the arc with strings for a more full look. Suggestions are more than welcome from any and all! :) Rich

I also suggest to get rid of the hand. I might download this from freestuff, but I wouldn't dream of buying it.

The head is interesting... but the rest is too clumsy to be usable... and not very logical. If a figure was inside that, they wouldn't be able to reach all of the stings. Also, the range of notes in a harp is due to the strings being of different lengths. The length of the strings are in a harmonic proportion. There are plucked instruments where the strings are all the same length, but they are of different widths OR have artificial bridges to shorten the strings along a range. It isn't a playable musical instrument. If you want a draconian musical instrument, why don't you model the head with the mouth open and turn it into a horn? Carolly

That's true as long as you assume western harmony. The strings are slightly different lengths and will give slightly different notes. Now, if you imagine some fantasy setting where "music" consists of a vroonk-vroonk strumming sort of effect, this might serve quite nicely.

Phantast, I just sent to ExpandingWave a suite of drawings of Japanese instruments from a musical encyclopedia... which I read while scavenging and scanning. Even traditional oriental instruments have a way of shortening the strings! It doesn't matter if there are 5 notes or 24 notes to the scale, or even if the form is modal rather than scalar, there are still different pitches involved. Those pitches are caused by the vibration of the strings and are amplified by the resonance of the instrument itself. If you just want a simple one-note humming sound, you can use a lyre, but it will not have a sweep of strings, maybe a handful, and it will have some sort of attached sound box. Carolly

(*sheepish grin*) Wasn't sure how to respond... Most important is that you know (all of you) I'm not offended or upset in any way, and not being defensive. :) This design is magic by nature, function was never considered (much) but if you notice, it may be backwards from a traditional harp, but the strings are differing lengths. High notes are at the end, lower notes in the middle of the arc. It could be playable, but it is meant to be decorative. (Besides there are only 14 strings, for THAT reason, I'll agree to the unplayable part. :) Did I forget to mention this is my first attempt at using Rhino? hehe (I included this image just to show the scale I had in mind.) Thanks for all the comments, they do help!

I'd say that if you are going to make a new head and hand from scratch to replace the DAZ Millenium Dragon head and hand you've used in your images here, you might have a saleable product.

That's the plan :) And that's why the question if anyone else is interested before I recreate the head. If it's just for me, then the Daz head is fine. Either way it's been fun learning Rhino. :) Rich

Ok, if I had any talent at all in modelling, what I would do is get rid of the hand, open the mouth of the dragon to allow the resonance of the notes to amplify, and scale it so that it was a lap harp. I agree in that I would probably download it from the Freebies. BTW, think of the body of the harp as a sound box, like a guitar body, and the mouth as the sound hole, again, like a guitar.