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aspaltophone- 3 (incl wiki page) asphaltophone- 277
the dutch word for asphalt is asfalt
the youtube video at youtube.com/watch?v=ou-Xy5OI1kc (which is the Danish news report) is titled Asphaltophone
I'm pretty sure it is "asphaltophone" (with the 'h') but I'll leave it to any Dutch natives, someone who has driven the road or talked to the creator of it.
134.115.228.172 ( talk) 06:06, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I read this article before there was any mention of Honda's involvement. There is nothing surprising about roads being sponsored, were they involved in the beginning? PidGin128 ( talk) 06:31, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I am looking for a software or at least an algorithm that can be used to transfer a short audio file (few seconds) into the information needed to produce such a musical road. I guess that the output should look like a series of lines that represent the grooves that have to be scraped into the road surface...like this maybe: ||| || ||| |||||| ||||| || | | . Thanks in advance -- Blutgretchen ( talk) 23:29, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
The section about melody roads in Japan claims the roads were designed so that the song is "heard correctly only when a car drove at a certain speed". I am not a music theory expert, but this sounds wrong. If you were to drive, say, 10% faster, the pitch and tempo would merely increase by the factor 1.10; it would still be the same melody, just faster and in a different key, right? According to
Interval (music), what matters in a musical interval is the ratio of the two frequencies, which is preserved if you just speed up the playback of the sound.
Spiel496 (
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In Futami Okinawa on the 331 (close to the Expresswaybridge) there's also a Melodyroad. This one has an Okinawan Tune (二見情話 (Futami-Jouwa)) ingraved. 104.243.243.39 ( talk) 17:38, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
The history of sound produced by wheels on grooved pavement covers automobile rumble strips in the 1950s but not other transportation such as the Walt Disney World Airport#"The Singing Airport". It played When You Wish Upon A Star from 1971 until 2008. (That article doesn't have much info such as who designed it or its inspiration.) 22yearswothanks ( talk) 05:23, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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google hits:
aspaltophone- 3 (incl wiki page) asphaltophone- 277
the dutch word for asphalt is asfalt
the youtube video at youtube.com/watch?v=ou-Xy5OI1kc (which is the Danish news report) is titled Asphaltophone
I'm pretty sure it is "asphaltophone" (with the 'h') but I'll leave it to any Dutch natives, someone who has driven the road or talked to the creator of it.
134.115.228.172 ( talk) 06:06, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I read this article before there was any mention of Honda's involvement. There is nothing surprising about roads being sponsored, were they involved in the beginning? PidGin128 ( talk) 06:31, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I am looking for a software or at least an algorithm that can be used to transfer a short audio file (few seconds) into the information needed to produce such a musical road. I guess that the output should look like a series of lines that represent the grooves that have to be scraped into the road surface...like this maybe: ||| || ||| |||||| ||||| || | | . Thanks in advance -- Blutgretchen ( talk) 23:29, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
The section about melody roads in Japan claims the roads were designed so that the song is "heard correctly only when a car drove at a certain speed". I am not a music theory expert, but this sounds wrong. If you were to drive, say, 10% faster, the pitch and tempo would merely increase by the factor 1.10; it would still be the same melody, just faster and in a different key, right? According to
Interval (music), what matters in a musical interval is the ratio of the two frequencies, which is preserved if you just speed up the playback of the sound.
Spiel496 (
talk) 22:28, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
In Futami Okinawa on the 331 (close to the Expresswaybridge) there's also a Melodyroad. This one has an Okinawan Tune (二見情話 (Futami-Jouwa)) ingraved. 104.243.243.39 ( talk) 17:38, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
The history of sound produced by wheels on grooved pavement covers automobile rumble strips in the 1950s but not other transportation such as the Walt Disney World Airport#"The Singing Airport". It played When You Wish Upon A Star from 1971 until 2008. (That article doesn't have much info such as who designed it or its inspiration.) 22yearswothanks ( talk) 05:23, 27 May 2024 (UTC)