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in the key of C Major
For the daily prompt thing I'm doing, I ended up going down a rabbit hole about windmill sails and came across this story of a miller who restored the last of what used to be many windmills--"the highest concentration of windmills in the Iberian peninsula"--on a mountain in Portugal. Here he is with his windmill in 2019:

Photo by Maria Rebelo Photography; resized from the image at the blog post
He's using the mill to grind ancient wheat grains; he says ants prefer wheat grains that don't have pesticides.
Oh, and those clay pots hanging on the arms of the windmill? They are each tuned to a note in the key of C Major, and you can hear what they sound like in this soundcloud file.

Photo by Maria Rebelo Photography; resized from the image at the blog post
He's using the mill to grind ancient wheat grains; he says ants prefer wheat grains that don't have pesticides.
Oh, and those clay pots hanging on the arms of the windmill? They are each tuned to a note in the key of C Major, and you can hear what they sound like in this soundcloud file.
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Since you mention mills, this is Meopham mill (it's pronounced mep-um) in my home county of Kent.
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Wales tends to go in for watermills rather than windmills. We do have plenty of both wind and water, but down in the valleys where people would want to build the mills, water is more reliable.
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Am I missing something here? Isn't that the point?
It's a very pretty mill, though!
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