Beer Organ

Clyde Hollinger cedel@supernet.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:07:25 -0500


When I was a high school music teacher I used to do some quirky things.  One
time I tuned about 25 soda bottles and the class played a song on them.
There's still a recording of the song somewhere, although I have no idea where.

Clyde

John Ross wrote:

> I think emptying the bottles would hurt the 'tuning'. It is the different
> amount of liquid in the bottles, that is a large part of the pitch
> differences.
> It must be a German thing, I remember being in a bar over there, and there
> was a dozen bottles behind the bar, that made up an octave when struck. The
> bartender was pretty good at making them 'speak'.



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