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Old 12-21-2006, 04:44 AM   #8 (permalink)
Jim
 
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Re: PERFORMED ENTIRELY ON BICYCLE PARTS:

Slack wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:40:32 -0800, Giant Yukon MTB Girl
> <tallorchidgirl@mail.com> wrote:
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>> Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite"
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>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...206&pr=goog-sl
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>> MTB Girl
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> Nice find.
> --Slack


Frank Zappa did a composition back in his early days that was played on
the tuned spokes of a bicycle wheel. All of the spokes were tuned to a
different pitch and someone was "playing" the wheel like a xylophone by
tapping the different spokes. Very weird sounding, but cool in a way too.
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