Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone

If Evelyn Glennie gets her way, one day every orchestra will have a stone xylophone. Martin Wainwright on a strange musical experiment in YorkshireAs he chatted with friends last year under the grand portico of Leeds university, Dr Kia Ng, a specialist in music and computers, found himself turning a question over in his mind. "I wonder how this building would sound?" he thought.Professor Jane Francis, a geologist, gave him an answer. The university's stones would ring, she said, if musicians co...

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