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Oct. 05, 2012
Möbius Music Box
by Leslie Taylor
A Möbius strip is a surface with only one side -- a loop with a half twist. In the chapter about topology in his book The Joy of X, Steven Strogatz writes about Vi Hart, a "full-time recreational mathemusician," who created this Möbius music box. The music box plays a melody Hart composed, and then plays back the same melody again--this time with all the notes inverted.
Video by Vihart. The arrangement is a theme from the Harry Potter Septet by Vi Hart.
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