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Gil Weinberg, the director of the center for music technology, and the event's primary organizer, tells THUMP, "After a couple of years, we looked in the mirror and said do we look like a piano competition—and it looked much more like a competition about design, engineering and musicality of new instruments."
Read the full article here: https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/a-look-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-musical-instrument-competition
