Transcript: A Stone Tower That Vibrates with Sound

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January 30, 2007
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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
01-30-2007
A Stone Tower That Vibrates with Sound

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 20:00 - 21:00 PM

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Southern Colorado is home to ruins left by ancient civilizations, and today's SoundClip comes from a relative newcomer to that region. He is a listener who constructed his home in an ancient style.

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Mr. JIM MILLSTEIN: I'm Jim Millstein and I live in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

And I built an unusual house. And one of the unusual things about it is that it incorporates a faux Anasazi tower. It's cylindrical. In effect, we have almost a very, very large organ pipe.

And I wasn't really thinking ...

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