Musical Japanese road


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Here's a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan... (Thanks Dan and Carlo!) Melodic highway.


Posted by Becky Stern | Mar 26, 2008 09:00 PM
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Posted by: ARTMARK on March 27, 2008 at 7:22 AM

actually, this was experimented with by the Disney folks several years ago at Walt Disney World in Fla. There's reportedly still a section of road there with grooves that plays "Zippety Doo Dah". Don't ask me where, though.


Posted by: Dirk on March 27, 2008 at 8:17 AM

I wouldn't have noticed that this was ment to be music at all. Maybe I'm not of the musical kind but I recognise neither rythm nor melody. In fact I don't really hear any, just pitched noise.


Posted by: on March 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM

In the late 80s a friend and I thought it would be cool to carve grooves to make the "Close Encounters" theme in the straight roadway leading to Devil's Tower (location featured in the movie).


Posted by: BigD145 on March 27, 2008 at 12:53 PM

It sounds like someone farting a tune.


Posted by: Seth Munki on March 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM

@artmark

The private runway at Disney World.


Posted by: steveking on May 29, 2008 at 8:34 PM

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