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A Player Piano As Big As a House
By Paul Lehrman

"A player piano as big as a house, with a river as the roll."  A student
of mine alerted me to this.  I'd love to go see it!  Could anyone in the
area visit it and tell us about it?  Here's the article:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669561/flow-a-player-piano-as-big-a-house-with-a-river-as-the-music-roll 

And you can monitor the sound here: http://www.flowmill.org/streaming 

Paul Lehrman
Tufts University
Massachusetts, USA

 [ At http://nickykirk.co.uk/flow.htm : "The 4.5m waterwheel harnesses
 [ the power of the river to provide power for a series of musical
 [ instruments ..."


(Message sent Sat 21 Apr 2012, 16:09:43 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  As, Big, House, Piano, Player

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