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Public staircase turned into piano keyboard

If you're impatient with the preamble and want to see it work, scan forward to about 0:39. [via Hack a Day]

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Posted by: Anonymous on October 8, 2009 at 9:37 AM

This made me smile. Can anyone translate the text?

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Posted by: Richard on October 8, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Can we make more people choose the stairs by making them more fun?

Odenplan, Stockholm, Sweden

66% more people than normally chose the stairs over the escalator

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Posted by: unwind on October 8, 2009 at 10:58 AM

Micro translation

I didn't actually view all of it, but the opening question is "can we get more people to take the stairs by making them fun?".

I think I passed through this very station on the day of filming, I remember seeing a bunch of people doing rigging work close close to the staircase. Never got to see it working in full-blown piano-mode, though.

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Posted by: Anonymous on October 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM

Something similar (musical steps) was set up at the St. Paul Science Museum (MN) decades ago. I watched in both horror and amusement as someone fell down the steps.

There should have been a rim shot at the bottom...

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Posted by: Anonymous on October 8, 2009 at 3:32 PM

It could be interesting have a contest. Find different locations with steps next to escalators and find interesting ways to convince people to use the steps like they did here (without talking to them). Whoever has the highest percentage of stair use wins!!!

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Posted by: Anonymous on October 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM

Thefuntheory.com

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Posted by: trevize on October 26, 2009 at 2:39 AM

Similar concept

A similar concept was used by artists Lara Usic, Margherita Pevere and Ivan Penov in Scorzé (Italy), may 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKQqCgb6vo

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