{"id":66318,"date":"2018-04-02T05:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=66318"},"modified":"2018-03-30T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T17:34:30","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-how-do-you-reinvent-rock-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2018\/uncommon-knowledge-how-do-you-reinvent-rock-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How Do You Reinvent Rock Music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2018\/uncommon-knowledge-how-do-you-reinvent-rock-music\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/47717_1_1200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the world\u2019s largest musical instrument? If you guessed a massive organ somewhere, you\u2019re on the right track. It <em>is<\/em> an organ, but you won\u2019t find it in a church, or even above ground. It\u2019s the \u201cStalacpipe\u201d organ in Luray Caverns, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Luray explorers had been tapping stalactites (those pointy cave ceiling things) throughout the huge limestone cave for years to make eerie echoes. In 1954, cavern visitor and organ enthusiast Leland Sprinkle envisioned an organ that would play more tuneful music by tapping stalactites with rubber-tipped pistons. Leland tested more than 2,500 stalactites before he found 37 that matched musical notes (and cheated a little by shaving some down to size). How does it sound? Just as spooky as you\u2019d imagine\u2014an uncanny ringing from an unseen source deep underground. Leland acted as the cave\u2019s resident organist for years, until they decided to turn it into a player piano\u2014like it wasn\u2019t creepy enough already.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/artiphon-multi-instrument?source=blog_uk_040218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artiphon Musical Instrument<\/a> | $299<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the world\u2019s largest musical instrument? If you guessed a massive organ somewhere, you\u2019re on the right track. It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":66825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[73,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66826,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66318\/revisions\/66826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}