{"id":13483,"date":"2025-02-01T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2025-01-18T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:35:55","slug":"cave-musical-instrument-great-stalacpipe-organ-luray-caverns-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/cave-musical-instrument-great-stalacpipe-organ-luray-caverns-february-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"This Cave Is a Musical Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Musical Instrument Took Eons To Make\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rjXZzB5bUAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Luray Caverns in Virginia is home to the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a one-of-a-kind lithophone created by mathematician Leland Sprinkle in the 1950s. Sprinkle transformed stalactites into concert-pitch notes using electrically operated mallets and steel bolts, turning a natural wonder into a giant musical instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luray Caverns in Virginia is home to the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a one-of-a-kind lithophone created by mathematician Leland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/03\/Luray_Caverns%2C_Virginia_%2819770925568%29.jpg\/2560px-Luray_Caverns%2C_Virginia_%2819770925568%29.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[3983,3980,3962,3988,3979,3984,3991,3990,3977,3982,3993,3976,3989,3986,3987,3981,3992,3985,216,3978,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-13483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"category-math-and-the-sciences","9":"tag-acoustic-engineering","10":"tag-cave-music","11":"tag-creative-engineering","12":"tag-electric-guitar-pickups","13":"tag-geological-wonder","14":"tag-great-stalacpipe-organ","15":"tag-leland-sprinkle","16":"tag-lithophone","17":"tag-luray-caverns","18":"tag-musical-cave","19":"tag-musical-heritage-sites","20":"tag-musical-innovation","21":"tag-natural-acoustics","22":"tag-natural-art-installations","23":"tag-natural-resonance","24":"tag-stalactite-instrument","25":"tag-stalactite-tuning","26":"tag-unique-musical-instruments","27":"tag-veritasium-2","28":"tag-virginia-attractions","29":"tag-youtube","30":"post_format-post-format-video","31":"cs-entry","32":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13484,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions\/13484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}