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The rope would get up and down in pitch in the cosmic wind - depending on length and tension - as the moon travels from perihelion to aphelion and back.

(update: to make that audible, the sound must be transposed by many octaves higher - unless a spaceship of significant mass silences the chord at an overtone node.)

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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