Ellen Fullman: how to play a 100ft stringed instrument

It’s got 56 strings, takes five days to install, and sounds like a prairie wind. Artist Ellen Fullman talks about why the last skirt she wore was made of metal – and how she negotiates the baggage carousel when she takes her ‘absurd’ instrument on tourThe Long String Instrument is exactly that – and then some. Stainless steel and phosphor bronze strings, 100-feet-long, are stretched taut across a room. Ellen Fullman, the instrument’s creator, places her finger