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Students create banana piano for Kazakhstan festival

By Ben Hooper   |   Feb. 8, 2019 at 3:01 PM

Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Students participating in a technology festival in Kazakhstan came up with a creative musical instrument -- a banana piano.

The Go Creative! festival in Almaty, which bears the slogan "Interlaced: threads of innovation, interaction and inspiration that unite us," featured an attention-grabbing exhibit from students who used fruit to make music.

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The video shows a series of bananas set up in a line and connected to electronic components that are in turn plugged into a computer.

A person shows off the invention by pushing on the bananas, creating a series of piano music notes.