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[DOH! Nick, suspicious of this, looked it up on Snopes.com, a source for debunking urban legends and internet fraud. WAH-Wah-wahhhhhhh. This is fake. It's CG. There is also no Trammell Music Conservatory, and while many things can be made from tractor parts, this was not. SNOPES.COM's debunk ]
My mom sent me this forward today and I thought it was so cool I just needed to pass it along. In the world of email, you never really know how long a forward has been out there in the ether - my apologies if you saw this a year ago or something.
The "instrument" 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 . The vast majority (97%) of the machines' components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft. Leave it to midwesterners to repurpose farm equipment! (somewhat less surprising if you've ever seen what people buy at Tractor Supply Co.)
It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming the video. The instrument is (or was) on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.
Cool.
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Are you kidding me? You thought that was real!?!?!? You can see the CG plain as day when the strings bounce and just thinking about it in terms of physics... they are bouncing those balls off strings into bongo things. Unless in a vacuum those spheres will spin due to the force of the air applied as an accelerant and not fly true. Come on now... silly bio majors...
On a 2x2 inch view it looked cool - didn't think much about it besides that. And if we could had frictionless pulleys in physics 111 lab, why couldn't this have been in a vacuum?! HMMM?! =)
Ugh, me brain hurt. You smart tall people.
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