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Post by buzzsmith »

Worth a look!

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=227506&fr=
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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Post by Shooshie »

It's actually Animusic, a DVD of music with animated instruments playing it. I have both their DVD's, and you can get them, too, at their website. The first one is probably the best.

The stuff about farm implements, etc., is just another email fake.

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Shooshie wrote:It's actually Animusic, a DVD of music with animated instruments playing it. I have both their DVD's, and you can get them, too.

The stuff about farm implements, etc., is just another email fake.

Shooshie
Crap!

It was such a good story! I usually check out snopes before forwarding or posting...must have been in a trance!

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

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Yeah animusic is really entertaining. The dvds are in HD and 5.1 so they must be worth getting.
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Very Cool...!
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