Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Tao of (Cello) Cycling


I just saw this interesting piece in the Nashville Scene: Noah Walcutt has created a bicycle-powered cello. He played a concert a couple hours after I read the preview, but the cello-bike is on display at Vanderbilt's Ingram Studio Art Center Gallery, Space 204 until Feb 12.


Here is a test run video of the cello-bike from Ingram's web site:





But as the Scene writer pointed out, an unknown Frank Zappa did something similar on The Steve Allen Show in 1963.


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