MUSICAL ROAD IN LANCASTER, CALIFORNIA

A Honda commercial was filmed in Lancaster, CA the first week of September, 2008. Honda Corp. put grooves in a road to play the William Tell Overture. I videoed the road and sound as I went over. I'm not sure it sounds like William Tell (Lone Ranger Theme). You be the judge. I videoed it twice
Added September 24- As of yesterday, the geniuses in Lancaster bowed to the whiners and paved over the road. The newspaper this morning says they may make a new musical road somewhere else in Lancaster. Does this makes sense to you??

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• Lancaster
• CA

[MeijiGatotsu]

where is the music coming from?

[xnghpxl]

There are grooves cut in the road. It's the same type of groove that is found on the shoulder of roads to let you know that you've drifted too far off the road surface- it make a hum sound. Somehow, they engineer these musical roads to make different sounds.

[vivapaco]

i live in palmdale...where is it exactly....?

[xnghpxl]

The original road is no more. the city paved it over. They made a new one on Avenue G, approx. 50th st west.

[djkus]

why are people wanting this removed due to noise? there is not a house anywhere near it. brilliant idea.

[colekingsly]

That is incorrect. Different models of cars have different lengths of wheel bases (the distance between your front and rear wheels). The "tune" is generated by bot sets of wheels (front and back) going over the grooves, so, the wheel base is quite important.

[MrRuski96]

@djkus they moved it to avenue g it not on avenue k

[BloodyMoon1]

That's only about a mile from my house.

[mentalillnesstalking]

Weird but cool. My brother and I always called those noise-making warning grooves on the sides of highways banshee lines because of the horrible shrieking they make. What a unique thing for the engineers to try out.

[malonee]

Ms.Carnes??

[missourisisterre]

It sounds like it. You have to drive faster to make it really sound like it though.

[zaq147369]

the reason it did not sound right is because you need to be going 50 mph constant.

[1200killer]

You have to set your cruise control, because if you go the slightest bit faster or slower you go out of tune.