Model Train Plays Music

[Adlington]

The Hamburg-based Miniatur Wunderland team created a new world record for the longest melody played by a model train.

A German museum broke a Guinness World Record by using a model train and nearly 3,000 glasses of water to play 2,840 notes of classical music. Frederik Braun, founder of the Miniatur Wunderland museum in Hamburg, said he and his team spent their time during the museum's COVID-19-mandated closure to set up a model train with 2,840 wine glasses filled with varying amounts of water. Mallets attached to the train strike the glasses as it passes, creating musical notes. The train plays 2,840 notes of classical music, including Johann Strauss's Radetzky March and Ludwig van Beethoven's Fur Elise.

Here is a video of the performance

and here is another video (13 min, in German with English subtitles) of the preparation for this event

At least one positive outcome of the lockdown....