Art@Work
An American sculptor, he has been creating musical instruments for 25 years out of…ice!
Back in the late 1990s, a guitar-maker friend first sparked his interest in creating ice instruments. Linhart had been working with ice as an artistic material. He wondered if he could create a decent violin out of ice and snow. After a month of work, he had crafted an ice bass, which was about 10 feet (three meters) tall and strung with bass strings from an old piano. Linhart says his first attempt to play the frigid instrument sounded really great. But when he tightened the strings to adjust the sound, there! His ice instrument exploded.
