West Lake Scenic Area Music Fountain
Lakeside water and light show of six hundred-plus nozzles choreographed to music each evening.
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This guide to the West Lake Scenic Area Music Fountain in Hangzhou begins in January 2020, when a show that had played the shore since 2003 suddenly went silent and its machinery was left down in the water. It asks what a lake does to equipment nobody is watching, and follows the managers who had to deal with the answer. Best heard at the lakeside rail, where the show is staged.
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