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Recordist's notes
This musical pipe was discovered at the back of a large residential care building. An odd U-shaped pipe projected from the ground creating these rather wonderful sounds, as if giving access to the inner working of a sizeable mysterious organism. Intriguingly bizarre.
About the place
Braunschweig is a city of about 244,715 people in Lower Saxony, Germany. OttoAnna lists 165 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Musical bubbling, gurgling from a mysterious pipe, Am Hohen Tore 4A, 38118 Braunschweig, Germany - Musical bubbling, gurgling from a mysterious pipe” by Peter Cusack – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0