Chicago's annual Looptopia festival is a Euro-style dusk-til-dawn celebration of the arts (and occasionally traffic-stopping games of Red Rover) that takes place in Chicago's loop. We were sure we'd find plenty of strange musical goodies here, and we were dead right.

In this video, an Art Institute student and aspiring luthier shows us the Celloharp, an instrument that combines cello pieces and a guitar / dulcimer shaped body with the same playing design and tuning as a harp. She talks about some of the challenges she had to overcome building such a mongrel of an instrument.