OFF: reference in cool Onion article

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:43:59PM -0000, Jill Strobridge typed out:
> How come Wales gets to hide all these arcane lost rock-riff wonders? 
> Wasn't the "recently-discovered-lost Jimmy-Hendrix-tape" <tongue firmly in 
> cheek> a version of the Welsh National Anthem?    I mean I know Merlin 
> nicked the Stonehenge Bluestones from there (at least I don't think he paid 
> for them - somehow you get the impression that's not how magicians 
> generally conduct their activities) and they've been the focus of a 
> festival of some kind or another ever since but I was unaware that Wales 
> was also the repository for vaults of ancient rock music.   Although if 
> it's all stored in the mines the bluestones were taken from......   Now 
> there would be a Thing.   The Music of the Stones.

	I wonder what you would get if you took some kind of reading of 
the stones, an ultrasonic one of their composition maybe or a microwave 
radar one of their surfaces, and somehow mapped it to sound output. 
Actually, no I don't; I wonder how many years behind I am the first 
person to think of this and how much Googling I'd have to do to find out 
where it's on sale (at which point, I hasten to add, I would shake my 
head wryly and close the browser window). Yours,
						 Jon


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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk