AMAZING INSTRUMENT (spare time?)

YOUTUBE ^ | 11/03/09

[Doogle]

AWESOME VIDEO. IT SAYS IT TOOK THEM OVER 13,000 HOURS TO MAKE THIS. WORKING EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR 8 HOURS A DAY WOULD BE 4 YEARS 5 MONTHS AND 18 DAYS! WOW. AND THATS INCLUDING WEEKENDS! READ DESCRIPTION BELOW!

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 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. Don't forget to turn on your volume........

[Doogle]

I'm amazed that the balls always find their way back to a tube to go back into play...ENJOY

[phalynx]

Uh, no. It’s called computer animation....

[Sunshine Sister]

Not the first time I have seen this but awesome none the less. Catchy tune too!

[ScreamingGreenAlienGorilla]

CGI. It’s called Animusic.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

It’s called ‘Animusic’ and has been around for a while. It’s computer animated. It is AWESOME! I’ll give you the link.....and there are lots of vids on YouTube :)

http://www.animusic.com/

[Doogle]

"arrrrg!..I've been had"

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

No you haven’t! It looks VERY realistic! I would have thought the same thing if I hadn’t caught it on TV. :)

[Doogle]

..*smiles*..I just got it in an email...went to youtube...(DIDN’T READ COMMENTS)....and posted...arrrg...*note to self...read comments read comments*

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Hehe! :)

[phalynx]

You are not the first. :)

[optiguy]

Not CGI

[phalynx]

If you think that’s bad, let me tell you about this thing called “global warming”.

[MHGinTN]

I'm into stick figures don'tchaknow

[Freedom2specul8]

Looks like fun!

Marked for later

Off to cook some more

[raybbr]

Here's another one using balls - but it's real.

[MHGinTN]

And being a string plucker too, I'm kind of partial to this one, also

[GreyMountainReagan]

Farm equipment from the 1800’s? Then I’d believe it, but not with all the new fangled John Deere equipment.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Yeah pretty sure that’s animated. PBS used to play videos similar to this at night.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

:)

[steveo]

Amazing waste of time. IT’S fake! Can’t you see that?