Music Factory :)

che spettacolo

CHE SBALLO!!!!!!

Ascolto e RI-ascolto quella canzone...........e penso che sarebbe stato un valore aggiunto al tempo trescorso nel deserto...

Sei un tesoro......ancora GRAZIE!!!!!!

ma ra vi ll a !!

ma è bellissimo...:-)

ciao ilda..quando vieni a trovarmi..fai sempre danni ahhaha ;)

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 machines 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.

Planet Earth

Planet Earth

"It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet,
has to be ironed, the sea in its whitness;
and the hands keep on moving,
smoothing the holy surfaces.

Pablo Neruda "in praise of ironing"

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It has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens,
the way she moves her hands caressing the fine muslins
knowing their warp and woof,
like a lover coaxing, or a mother praising.
It has to be loved as if it were embroidered
with flowers and birds and two joined hearts upon it.
It has to be streched and stroked.
It has to be celebrated.
O this great beloved world and all the creatures in it.
It has to be spread out the skin of this planet.

The trees must be washed, and the grasses and mosses.
They have to be polished as if made of green brass.
The rivers and little streams with their hidden cresses
and pale-coloured pebbles
and their fool's gold
must be washed and starched or shined into brightness,
the sheets of lake water
smoothed with the hand
and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness.
It has to be ironed, the sea in its whitness

and pleated and goffered, the flower- blu sea
the protean, wine-dark, grey, green, sea
with its metres of satin and bolts of brocade.
And sky-such an O! overhead-night and day
must be burnished and rubbed
by hands that are loving
so the blue blazon forth
and the stars keep shining
within and above
and the hands keep on moving.

It has to be made bright, the skin of this planet
till it shines in the sun like golden leaf.
Archangels then will attend to its metals
and polish the rods of its rain.
Seraphim will stop singing hosannas
to shower it with blessings and blisses and praises
and, newly in love,
we must draw in it and paint it
our pencils and brushes and loving caresses
smoothing the holy surfaces.

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