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A musical road in China
Saturday March 02, 2013 01:00:27 PM,
EFE
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Beijing: Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan inaugurated a
road that is designed to play music as vehicles pass over it, the
media said.
Hundreds of narrow ribbons are arrayed across a 300-meter stretch
of the road in such as way as to play a tune as vehicles pass.
The vehicles must be travelling at a minimum speed of 40 kph to
correctly sound the notes.
The road, located inside the Changge nature reserve, plays either
the Chinese national anthem or the traditional favourite "Molihua"
(Jasmine), depending on which direction the vehicles are moving.
It is China's first musical road, though similar thoroughfares
exist in Japan, South Korea and Denmark, where the idea of turning
a road into a musical instrument originated in 1994.
The Danes who built the first tuneful road dubbed it the "asphaltophone".
California once had its own musical road, but authorities had to
repave it after area residents complained about constant noise as
some drivers were driving back and forth just to make the song
play.
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