We interrupt our program now ... for another important ... Geo Quiz.
This is NOT the usual jingle that accompanies the Geo Quiz. That's for sure!
Instead it's an 18th century cantata by Johann Sebastien Bach... featuring a long forgotten instrument.
Picture an 8-foot long trumpet that some say sounds like a garden hose.
 The Lituus
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The Lituus as it's called fell out of use about 300 years ago. From the sound of this redesigned roman tuba -- it may not yet be ready for prime time.
In any case we're looking for the name of a city in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.
Its where graduate students teamed up with early music scholars and used high tech computer modeling to recreate the long lost lituus.
The city is located along the Firth of Forth, near the North Sea. It's nicknamed "Old Smokey" for all the coal smoke that used to swirl up out of its chimneys.
The answer is coming up...
