Extraordinary Musical Instrument

Read before playing! Its amazing.

Read this first, then watch.
Turn your sound on for this.!!!
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.