From source: "Have you ever wondered what was the deepest and largest musical instrument in the world? I have and it looks brilliantly retro.
Found inside the Luray Caverns of Virginia. It is called ‘The Great Stalacpipe Organ’ and it ROCKS (no pun intended) – there are no pipes, with the organ is wired to stalactites instead. When the keyboard is played, the entire subterranean landscape becomes the instrument.
It is also a triumph of geology, maths, geography, physics… …oh just sums by really clever people such as it’s inventor and builder Leland Sprinkle which would blow my mind should I try to explain (and he has an awesome name). Indeed it took some pretty hardcore calculations over three years in order for Sprinkle to make this bad boy work. To achieve a precise musical scale, the chosen stalactites of the organ range over 3.5 acres, but brilliantly due to the enclosed nature of the space, the full sound can be heard anywhere within the cavern."
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kulpimssays...*nature
siftbotsays...Adding video to channels (Nature) - requested by kulpims.
lullaby_lunesays...This is AMAZING.
zombieatersays...Oh that kind of organ...
I'm an idiot... >.>
Bananularsays...^ I clicked it cause I thought we'd be having super-durable stalactite kidneys in the near future.
nanrodsays...He should have used stalagmites so his organ would be standing up instead of hanging down.
TheFreaksays...This reminds me of an old black and white '50s educational film I saw a long time ago.
A park ranger, assigned to care for one of the giant caves in a National Park, demonstrates for the camera how stalactites make tones when struck. He takes a hammer and starts hitting different stalactites and most of them respond by breaking.
Hundreds of Thousands to Millions of years for each to form.
What a peculiar time in our culture.
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