Inventors
Two people claim to be the inventor of the laser harp: Geoffrey Rose and Bernard Szajner. Geoffrey Rose took out a provisional patent with the British Patent office in 1975/6. Bernard Szajner has a Patent (it means that the Office Patent of Paris never found evidence of another inventor of the same/similar instrument before him). (Patent: FR2502823 (A1) Date de priorité : 1981-03-27).
The engineers that have created a laser harp for jean Michel Jarre are: Denis Carnus, Philippe Guerre, Claude Lifante, Yan Terrien.
Several amateur electronics enthusiasts have created their own versions of the laser harp: Steve Hobley, Manuel Schulz, Franck Morisseau, Albert de Jonge, Maurizio Carelli, Sébastien Pamart, Andrew Kilpatrick.
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