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Organic sousaphones (at the 1896 forest fair)

Listen now, children of the bells! The harmony of the spheres is nigh.
As we gather here in the forest, on this historic New Year's Eve, I am delighted to present you with my latest and most romantic invention: very organic sousaphones, covered in rust and shiny chrome at the same time. Raise your mallets. Kiss your chimes. Shine your knuckles. Bring your friends: these soundmakers are too grand to go alone! Tighten the steam valves and crank the handles, then listen to the golden symphony that erupts. Once you've got resonance, your song of delight will sing through the earth and rattle the gates of heaven.

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This is an image generated by Midjourney in response to Sarah's prompt (see below).

Synanim

Iteration 1

Sarah

"The music [at PH's wartorn forest wedding] comes from very organic susaphones in the middle of the forest, covered in rust and shiny chrome at the same time. There is an ongoing infestation. The instruments have knuckles."

Maddie

if we found this in a forest we'd might start tapping on all the different ones, making sounds- harmony of the spheres, rehearsing coordination. you'd bring a huge group of friends to the forest to play the soundmakers (not quite ancient but maybe they were made in like... the Romantic era). or maybe the birds made it

maybe it is an automatic elaborate steam-powered distributed contraption that makes special potions from automatically-collected ingredients in the dirt and forest and air around it

Dae

listen now - children of the bell! hark to the profound word. The night of resonance is nye. Raise your mallets. Kiss your chimes. Shine your brass. For our message will ring through the land, shaking the foundations of this world. Do you feel it? The walls of Jericho are trembling, and when they crumble, pulled down by the weight of senescence and turpitude, we shall bring forth in their place our song of delight. Sing with me now. Sing through the earth and rattle the gates of the very heavens

Luke

On this historic day, at the 1896 world fair,
I am delighted to present to you my latest and most sophisticated invention,
A musical automaton.
Simply tighten the steam valve, crank the handle
And listen to the novel golden symphony that erupts from its sound chambers.


Iteration 2

Sarah

Listen now - children of the bell! The music comes from very organic susaphones in the middle of the forest, covered in rust and shiny chrome at the same time. Raise your mallets. Kiss your chimes. Shine your knuckles. The musical invention is too grand to go alone: you must bring a huge group to play the soundmakers. Harmony of the spheres, rehearsing coordination. Once you've got it, simply tighten the steam valve, crank the handle
and listen to the novel golden symphony that erupts from its sound chambers.


An invocation/welcoming (listen now or it's the fair)
Some general description of the instrument
How to play it (with your friends, physicality, textures, many parts, steam, mallets, etc.)

Note on dae's -- when you ring one bell, the others ring too (resonance is how Jericho fell)

Maddie

On this historic day, at the 1896 forest fair, I am delighted to present to you my latest and most romantic invention: a very organic musical automaton, made of the finest rust and shiny chrome. Bring your friends: simply tighten the steam valves and crank the handles as you please. When you ring together, your song of delight will sing through the earth, rattle the gates of heaven, and shake the very foundations of this world.

"bring your friends, bring your plant potions??, then simply tighten..."

Luke

Kiss your chimes, shine your brass. raise your mallets, and pay no attention to the ongoing infestation today. For today is a historic day. Raise your mallets together, strike the sound chambers in coordination, and listen, friends, to the harmony of the spheres. For today, in the middle of this wartorn forest, we commemorate

Dae

children of the bell! hark to the profound word. The harmony of the spheres is nye. Tighten the steam valve, crank the handle. And listen to the novel golden symphony. Do you feel it? The walls of Jericho are trembling. Sing with me now. Sing through this earth and rattle the gates of the very heavens.