Hello folks! This is the Vitthala temple in a town called Hampi in Karnataka state of India.

No, there isn’t any mistake with the topic of this post. You see, the temple itself is a musical instrument. Yep!

One of the most notable and interesting features of this Temple is the musical pillars. Each of the pillars that support the roof of the main temple represents a musical instrument, and is constructed as 7 minor pillars arranged around a main pillar. These 7 pillars, when struck, emanate the 7 notes from the representative instrument, varying in sound quality based on whether it represents a wind, string or percussion instrument.

There are around 56 main pillars in this temple and I can’t help but imagine this temple in it’s hay days, in it’s full glory with 56 musicians playing ‘one instrument’, the Vitthala temple.