A keyboard that plays a cave

Sound on: this keyboard plays a cave.

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Sound on: a real performance on the Great Stalacpipe Organ — Rob Scallon / Luray Caverns. Documentary performance excerpt, unchanged sound and playback speed.

Each key triggers an electric mallet with a rubber tip.

It gently taps a selected, tuned stalactite, sending a musical note through the cavern.

A rubber-tipped actuator beside its tuned stalactite in Luray Caverns — Rob Scallon / Luray Caverns. Documentary performance excerpt, unchanged sound and playback speed.

Leland Sprinkle began building the Great Stalacpipe Organ after a visit in 1954.

He connected a keyboard to rock formations spread across the cave. The music you hear comes from the stone.

The organ keyboard inside Luray Caverns — Rob Scallon / Luray Caverns. Documentary performance excerpt, unchanged sound and playback speed.

Sound on: this keyboard plays a cave.

In Virginia’s Luray Caverns, the stalactites themselves are the instrument.
Each key triggers an electric mallet with a rubber tip.

It gently taps a selected, tuned stalactite, sending a musical note through the cavern.
Leland Sprinkle began building the Great Stalacpipe Organ after a visit in 1954.

He connected a keyboard to rock formations spread across the cave. The music you hear comes from the stone.

A keyboard that plays a cave

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