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iSergeant - your Sergeant on the web now features on the club homepage . . . From time to time, new, humorous or thought-provoking items will be featured for your viewing pleasure. These may include videos, cartoons or anecdotes. If you like what you see or read, you may wish to contribute an extra $1 (or more!!) to the club's charitable coffers at your next luncheon "Sergeant's session". |
iSergeant from the past . . .
The Music Machine - contributed by Jane & Henry Drury
Note that the balls are all returned to the machine.
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 machine's components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft , Iowa .. Yes, farm equipment!
It took the team a combined 13,029 hours (6.26 years) 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.
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