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Our sister blog Science & the Arts had a fantastic guest post this week by Dr. John Powell, author of How Music Works. Powell talked about music roads and shared this video of driving on the musical road in Lancaster

He explains:

Apparently there used to be a musical road in Lancaster, California, which played the Lone Ranger theme when you ran over it. Local residents eventually got fed up with the noise created by thrill-seeking music lovers driving off into the sunset with cries of ‘Hi Yo Silver’, and had the grooves filled in. Then the music lovers rebelled and asked for the musical ride to be reinstated. The town worthies of Lancaster indulged this whim by having the grooves cut in the road a few miles away from the nearest residential area – but someone must have been using a calculator on ‘lo-bat’ because the tune came out wrong.

Read more about how to calculate an asphaltophone at the Science & the Arts blog

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