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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2024-03-18 11:38 am

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.
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[personal profile] athenais 2024-03-18 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that sound is cool!
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2024-03-18 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful!

Since you mention mills, this is Meopham mill (it's pronounced mep-um) in my home county of Kent.

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[personal profile] sartorias 2024-03-18 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like wind harps!
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[personal profile] heleninwales 2024-03-18 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Those pots would sound really eerie at night.

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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[personal profile] amaebi 2024-03-18 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's amazing!
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[personal profile] oracne 2024-03-18 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
A singing windmill. ZOMG, so great.
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[personal profile] shewhomust 2024-03-18 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
he says ants prefer wheat grains that don't have pesticides...

Am I missing something here? Isn't that the point?

It's a very pretty mill, though!
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[personal profile] wayfaringwordhack 2024-03-19 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
What a wonderful rabbit hole to have fallen down!

[personal profile] anna_wing 2024-03-19 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds as if should be part of a compilation entitled "Music of Middle-earth"...
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[personal profile] osprey_archer 2024-03-21 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
What a beautiful windmill. Thank you for linking the soundcloud file, too; it's such an eerie, lovely sound.
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[personal profile] med_cat 2024-03-25 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
What a cool idea :)