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The video is bogus as far as it being an actual machine, but those Animusic videos really are very cool.  I use them in one of my classes.  Scott

Scott E. Antes
Northern Arizona University
Department of Anthropology
PO Box 15200
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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It's nonsense anyway...

See:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/musicmachine.asp

Nic 57/15

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Sami <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> You forgot to send the URL so we could watch it.
> Sami
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>  Non PD. This is really amazing....A friend described it as "your brain on
> music"
>
> Turn your sound on for this.   Read this first, then watch.  This is almost
> unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones.
>
> This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the
> Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of
> Engineering at the University of Iowa .. Amazingly, 97% of the machines
> components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of
> Bancroft , Iowa ..Yes, farm equipment!
>
> It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration,
> and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was WELL worth
> the effort.
>
> It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University
> and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.
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