The music of geography: Ohio is a piano

[Rapunzel]

Andy Woodruff noticed that Ohio has 88 counties, so he went to work on a map application that assigns a piano note to each county. The map is a musical instrument you can play!

He writes:

Last month, as I was driving through Ohio to collect my final three counties in the state, it dawned on me: There are 88 counties in this state. There are 88 keys on a piano. I don’t know anything about music, but holy crap, I have to make a map based on this coincidence.

And so I did, bit by bit, gradually descending into madness in the process. It has no purpose, really, apart from being an experiment in some sort of weird artistic musical cartography. Ohio is a piano. Check it out. (It’s in Flash.)

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Click on the map to load the piano notes . . . then play!

[AussiePam]

Totally crazy, Rapunzel, and awesome!! Ohio played The Entertainer for me!! Way to start the day!

[Rapunzel]

Totally crazy, Rapunzel, and awesome!! Ohio played The Entertainer for me!! Way to start the day!

Lol Pam! It's fun isn't it?

You can make it play Beethoven's 5th too!

[Peg]

I never realized I live in such a musical state!