So how to explain the chain fountain above, in which a 50-meter string of metal balls briefly flows up before plunging to the ground?
The audience in Amsterdam had yet to be affected by the archaeological army soon to make war on big orchestras, A = 440 pitch and strings made of metal, not gut.
A string of solid metal "sucker rods" connects the walking beam to the piston of the pump.
Planning began in earnest last spring with the creation by Mr. Cattelan's assistants of a small maquette of the show, using dollhouse-size models of every piece, dangled by strings from a piece of metal that looked like a mesh pan for cooking vegetables on a grill.
Use non-conductive supports designed for light strings to prevent accidental energizing of metal gutters, downspouts, railings, trim, etc.
Psaltery, (from Greek psaltērion: "harp"), musical instrument having plucked strings of gut, horsehair, or metal stretched across a flat soundboard, often trapezoidal but also rectangular, triangular, or wing-shaped.
A DUCK'S bill, rodent legs, a crustacean pincer, rusting scrap metal, strings of small coloured beads, bird feathers, threads of plant seeds, a tiny terracotta pot, dangling cowrie shells, all bound tightly together on a plump female effigy carved in wood.
Music wafted through the 17,500-capacity arena with sonic nuances rarely heard in buildings this size — the crisp crunch of percussive shakers, the melodic thump of conga drums, even the sound of guitarists' fingers slipping across the metal strings of their instruments.
These are those small sculptural conundrums that set one the distracting task of disentangling the interconnecting elements (which might be pieces of string, metal or wood).
One leg brace belonging to a Nigerian weight lifter, she said, was made of animal hide, pieces of metal plumbing and string.
