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One of Charlotte’s favorite things at the Museum of Science in Cambridge is the musical staircase that plays random electronic tones as you walk up or down, triggering a series of electric eye mechanisms. It never plays a tune per se and yet it always makes interesting and amusing music.

I was instantly reminded of those stairs when I first saw the video above. It’s a “sea organ” embedded into a series of steps along the water’s edge in the Croatian coastal town of Zadar. The organ was built in 2005 and operates more or less the same way any other pipe organ does: air is pushed into a series of tubes with musically-tuned openings that “play” the notes. The action of the ocean waves against the bottoms of the tubes is what pushes the air.

I don’t expect to be traveling to Croatia, even though it has become a bit of a tourist destination in the last ten years or so, but I would not be at all surprised to learn about something like this being built somewhere along the East Coast of the United States as a tourist draw.

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