Comments on: instrument-a-day 24: mobius music

By: AMS Graduate Student Blog » Blog Archive » D.I.Y. Unorientable Math Gifts

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:55:02 +0000

[...] down! (Just twist the music sheet once first after threading it through the music box as done at This artists site ) It was fun and you can do it too. Take a gander at Think Geek’s ;. AND Note that you can [...]

By: Alan Parekh

Alan Parekh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:55:26 +0000

The tune sounds very nice. Love the endless design!

By: Robert1374

Robert1374 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:53:55 +0000

I still think “happy birthday” sounds alot better upside down and backwards.

By: Design Swan » Blog Archive » Interesting Möbius Strip Music Box

Design Swan » Blog Archive » Interesting Möbius Strip Music Box — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:29:33 +0000

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By: ranjit

ranjit — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:38:03 +0000

You got it, Robert!

By: Robert1374

Robert1374 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:11:04 +0000

Disregard my last comment. It’s definitely the “Happy birthday to You” song!

By: Robert1374

Robert1374 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:00:36 +0000

I think it’s Definitely the opening theme to “Cosmos.” I think it’s called Evangelis, or Vangelis? You tell because the repeating chords still sound the same.

By: Foozinator

Foozinator — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:40:10 +0000

I don’t recognize the tune, either backwards or upside-down and backwards. Anyone know what it is?

By: Möbius strip music box - machine quotidienne

Möbius strip music box - machine quotidienne — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:47:51 +0000

[...] Ranjit Bhatnagar took one of those punched-strip programmable music box kits, put a half-twist in the strip, and looped it back on itself to make an endlessly-looping Möbius strip music box. The melody plays through once, and then a second time with the ordering of the notes on the scale reversed. An interesting compositional challenge, if nothing else. [...]

By: moonmilk « Trainsonor’s Weblog

moonmilk « Trainsonor’s Weblog — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:44:52 +0000

[...] moonmilk In Uncategorized on April 10, 2009 at 5:43 pm via moonmilk.com [...]

By: kirkjerk

kirkjerk — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:23:55 +0000

So brilliant! I absolutely dig the combination of a core idea of at home music making and a core idea of at home “neat math stuff”