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Asphaltophone – the first musical road

Fact - Asphaltophone, a road in Denmark, produces musical notes by vibrations caused by the car wheels as they go over raised pavement markers.
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The first musical road was created in 1995 in Gylling, Østjylland, Denmark, by two Danish artists, Steen Krarup Jensen and Jakob Freud-Magnus. It’s called the Asphaltophone and produces musical notes by vibrations caused by the car wheels as they go over raised pavement markers.

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