A musical bridge at Bellacorrick, Mayo, Ireland

Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14787)

• Ireland

14 May 23

@TheHorse Usually built when only one car a week used them.

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@TheHorse (238342)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 May 23

Could they have been made a bit wider?

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

@TheHorse @Fiacre There is another just out of Ballina after you turn off to go to Pontoon. It's actually two lanes but at right angles to the road before and after. It doesn't look a bit scary in the photo but, in a car, you can't see if anyone is coming the other way or not.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502653)

• Italy

14 May 23

I have found a video about the "Musical Bridge". I post the link should someone be interested.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502653)

• Italy

14 May 23

@TheHorse

I agree.

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@TheHorse (238342)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 May 23

Gave it a listen. Couldn't quite figure out the tune.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

Thanks for the link. They definitely sound like 'notes' even if you can't recognise the tune. And you can see the place where the last stone needs to be.

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Jenaisle

@Jenaisle (16568)

• Philippines

14 May 23

Did the government leave it purposely unfinished so that it could become a tourist spot? Because they could have finished it now, with all the modern technology that man has now.

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@vandana7 (102698)

• India

14 May 23

You shouldn't become too logical when it comes to governments. LOL

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

I guess it makes another point of interest for tourists.

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@TheHorse (238342)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 May 23

Interesting stories. What is in those brown fields beyond the bridge?

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@vandana7 (102698)

• India

14 May 23

@TheHorse Ireland would be perfect for you. Their medical system is one of the best. 5 years stay there, and you would be eligible for all those benefits. Cost of living is not much different from that in the US.

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@TheHorse (238342)

• Walnut Creek, California

14 May 23

@JudyEv I'm going to have to look up "heather" I was first exposed to it in the the Winnie the Pooh stories of my childhood. "Gorse and heather." In the US, much of western North Dakota and Eastern Montana are infertile--better for natural gas and rattlesnakes than crops. I think of "the islands" as eternally rainy and green, but I have never been there.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

The little grey bit on the left is the road with signposts and the brown would be heather. Mayo isn't nearly as green as most of the rest of the country. I was quite surprised. A lot of the land seems quite infertile.

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Karen Hellier

@Kouponkaren (5497)

• United States

14 May 23

I was going to ask you what does the musical bridge sound like, but I guess you never got to find out. :0( That's too bad.

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Fleur

@Fleura (35069)

• United Kingdom

14 May 23

You can watch/listen to the video that @LadyDuck found. It sounds a bit like a glockenspiel.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

We didn't persevere long enough to get a note out of the bridge. It's interesting listening to the link.

@vandana7 (102698)

• India

14 May 23

At first, I thought they had etched out musical notes on the bridge wall...so that people could look them up and play on whichever instrument they had. But I do believe some engineering that we have lost, existed through which they could produce musical notes. Maybe not as perfect as we have today but still good enough.

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M Cheung

@Beestring (15372)

• Hong Kong

14 May 23

I love such kind of bridges. Wonders how this musical bridge sounds like.

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Fleur

@Fleura (35069)

• United Kingdom

14 May 23

You can watch/listen to the video that @LadyDuck found. It sounds a bit like a glockenspiel.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502653)

• Italy

14 May 23

@Fleura You are right, it sounds a bit like a glockenspiel.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

It's worth having a listen to the link that Anna put up.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (51837)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

14 May 23

I've heard of a bridge that if you drive over it at a certain speed it plays a song, but I can't remember if this is true or something I read in a novel.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (51837)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

15 May 23

@JudyEv Yes, rumble strips.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 May 23

It's true. FourWalls talks about it but the one she's talking about happens over rumble strips.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49775)

• India

15 May 23

So the rains and the winds cancelled your plans to "test" the Bridge !

Do enough tourists visit this Bridge? This is another of the interesting sites that you shared from your Ireland visit.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49775)

• India

15 May 23

@JudyEv That is good as a promotional move !

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 May 23

I have no idea how many visit the bridge. There are signs either end of it and an information panel.

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@vandana7 (102698)

• India

14 May 23

Please don't be in two minds about it. We have an even more ancient temple ...built in 15th century. I have practically played on those whatever you call them in your English. A tad off tune, but you can discern the seven notes. Vittala temple of Hampi...

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@vandana7 (102698)

• India

15 May 23

@JudyEv The guide was able to show us different instruments sounds ..resembling our traditional instruments, but even he was not able to get the notes perfect...LOL...when I tried, I was barely able to get even that kinda perfection...I guess training is needed for playing on those. No it did not pain. Which was what was strange.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 May 23

That's better than the bridge I think. I'm not sure it has seven notes.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117259)

• El Paso, Texas

15 May 23

What a shame that it had to rain while you were there. OK, I found a video that proves it's musical

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117259)

• El Paso, Texas

15 May 23

You're welcome.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 May 23

Thanks for the link. That gives a good idea of what happens.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86778)

• United States

15 May 23

That’s so cool! There’s a place that has “rumble strips” in the road so they’ll play “America the Beautiful” if you drive over it at 45 MPH. I watched some videos. It does sound like a xylophone at places.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86778)

• United States

15 May 23

@JudyEv — trying to play heavy metal instead of a melodious tune.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 May 23

That guy is fairly moving! It's quite a long bridge. It sounds like he is puffing a bit at the end.

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@DaddyEvil (174590)

• United States

14 May 23

It's interesting looking and has a good story... well, sort of... but I do wish Vince could have played the bridge.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

It was blowing a gale - well, a small gale and he hadn't long been o ut of hospital so I was pretty keen to get him back in the car. READ, I was ordering him back.

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@DaddyEvil (174590)

• United States

14 May 23

@JudyEv I totally understand. I'm surprised he made it out of the car in the first place.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (135901)

• Marion, Ohio

14 May 23

I would have to try it

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (135901)

• Marion, Ohio

15 May 23

@JudyEv With it raining I don't blame you for stopping

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 May 23

I guess we should have persevered but the weather was really putting us off.

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Fleur

@Fleura (35069)

• United Kingdom

14 May 23

I was going to ask if you got a tune out of it!

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Hampi’s Vittala Temple of Musical Pillars

@vandana7 (102698)

• India

14 May 23

I think it is just notes...that is possible. So you would have to practice a lot to get a tune. We have one at Hampi - Vittala temple. The guide was able to get notes better than I. But I too got it, though it sounded like...an instrument that needed to be tuned. The guide tried to explain that they used to make thin stone pillars, and perhaps insert a metal in it, and there would be enough gap in upper part for some vibration. But how they got the notes is something even he could not explain.

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@JudyEv (382325)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 23

We should have tried a bit longer but it was incredibly windy and our son was a bit worried about where he was parked.

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