Happy December everyone!!! Check this out..
Moving Parts Make Holiday Music
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6564618
Morning Edition, December 1, 2006 · A bike manufacturer commissioned composer Flip Baber to create holiday music using only bicycle parts.
About the Project
"Since Jingle Bells is a little overdone this time of year, I thought Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' (from the Nutcracker Suite) would be a great alternative," Baber says. "At first I didn't think it could be done, but as I recorded hundreds of sounds from a road bike and mountain bike it started to take shape."
Here are the mechanical ingredients he used:
• Glockenspiel and clarinet melody: Spokes.
• Cello and violin pizzicatos: Plucked derailleur cables.
• Triangle: Disc brake hit.
• Percussion: Shifting, coasting, finger over turning spokes, chain pulls, braking, clipping into pedals, back-spinning, air out of tires.
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Thanks for providing this link. It is very cool. If you go to http://www.specialized.com/bc/microsite/holiday/index.html you can hear the whole thing uninterrupted.
BG
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