9-1-1 will always be the system to me. I spent to many days and nights helping set up the first 911 system in St. Louis years ago when I worked for the real phone company.
That said, Bandit keeps trying to trick me. He sent me this email -
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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 machine's 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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There is a video attached to the email. You can see the video at http://www.animusic.com/popups/clip-pipe-wm.html . The main site has a lot of other video clips too. I think this is viral marketing by Animusic.
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This just wouldn't load for me but I think I've seen similar clips of instruments made out of farm equipment, car parts and other unlikely items. It was amazing.
Going to try that link again....I want Aaron to see it.
It would not open for me either from the site you provided.
I thought it looked like animation when I saw it. In the opening part the wires that the balls hit all looked the same length but were sounding different pitches.
I thought maybe it was just me that didn't have the latest activeX plugin. There should be a bar that pops up at the top of the screen asking if you want to download a plugin from microsoft.
Farmers are pretty danged inventive!
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