04-19-2008, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Location: South Florida
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amazing musical contraption
This is totally mind-boggling!!
Read this first, then watch.
This is almost unbelievable.
See how all of the bal ls 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 Iowa . Amazingly, 97% of the
machines components cam e 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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