"Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen, a man in his fifties who serves as chairman of the art department at Concordia Teachers’ College in Seward Nebraska. Most of the Marxhausen’s sculptures are small metallic objects studded with spines or prongs in various arrangements. The objects have foreboding appearance, but they no doubt yield extraordinary sounds when held to the ear and plucked, as the sculptor intends. In a less formal outdoor vein, Marxhausen also likes to tune picket fences, to be played by running along with a stick, and he likes to place tin cans under the leaves of a roof,to be stimulated during rainstorms." ((p.140 http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub/Unpub_023_Johnson.pdf))