Antiquity Music has announced a Kickstarter project to fund development of the Wheelharp – a new electromechanical keyboard.

Antiquity Music is seeking to raise $50,000 in order to launch the Wheelharp, a musical instrument that gives you the ability to bow a full chromatic set of real strings using a keyboard.

The Wheelharp is designed to put the actual sound of multiple bowed string instruments at the player’s fingertips.  According to the company, “the Wheelharp gives its player a rich sound palette of actual bowed strings that cannot be matched by synthesis or sampling.”

Here’s the official Kickstarter video:

Here’s an interview with Antiquity Music’s Mitchell Manger:

See the Kickstarter site for more info.