![[Bergmark playing the Stringed Stirrups]](hdk.gif)
Photo from video © by Alejandro Vega-Fredes at HDK, Göteborg '95.
The Stringed Stirrups (formerly called the Angel Strings) have (like the butter bass) loose piano strings going through loops on a resonator - the resonator is tied around my chest. I am giving tension to the two strings standing in the lower end stirrups, thus hanging suspended from the ceiling in the strings. It is played with two bows and specially made wooden beaters. Sometimes the longitudinal vibrations of the strings are excited with rosined gloves. It is amplified with a contact microphone.
![[Bergmark playing the Stringed Stirrups]](string.jpg)
![Closeup of the Stringed Stirrups]](angel.jpg)
![Playing the Stringed Stirrups in Helsinki]](stirrups-finland.jpg)
![Playing the Stringed Stirrups in Stavanger]](stirrupsStavanger.jpg)
The Stringed Stirrups performed on the festival Högrisk, Malmö, '02, © Johannes Bergmark.
From the festival B+PAC in Bandung, Indonesia april 2004; photos © by Arai Shin-ichi, Japan.