I was looking forward to this puzzle lke with all that comes with the meeroos really. There are several things I would like to point out though, because I found it quite unfair.

1. Release-time
The release of the stones was in a time where not all people were able to be online and with that have the same chance to the winning reward. So, if you weren't american, you weren't supposed to be "extra" rewarded.
On the other hand, this could have been solved to be made at least "half fair". It was on a weekend, so with 2 days in advance telling the stones come on saturday XY-SLT, all those who wanted to could have stayed up and planned it in. My congratulations though, to the winner :)

2. Singing Stones themselves
The Stones themselves were not loading for me. I was not seeing any runes because one of the sculpts wasnt loading, so it covered the rest. When I managed to finally see it, it stopped having any response to clicks. So I got a new one, because rerezzing and reloggin wouldnt help. The new one then was function right in my belief, until I found out it was missing a tone. Rerezzing ddint work, reloggin either, so I had to get me another.

2. losely translated
[...]Our own researches have figured out that the Singing Stones deliver a phonetic value loosely translated into English to the best of their ability.[...]
I am european and can understand normal english. I studied (apart from other things) 2 years linguistics in my language including also phoenetics and alike. This wasn't really easy doable, if not at all without help of a native speaker. Losely translated is quite fitting and with that was practially not doable for me alone.

3. The reward for solving the puzzle
I totally love the statue, it looks pretty and fits to our environment. Worth it alone to do it because of the statue. I'm not feling real worth it to have it as i wasn't able to solve it on my own.

Overall I was thrilled and happy with how the tension was build up, the story and the reward for the puzzle. I wasn't happy about the extra award was only for those being in a certain time zone, although there are enough overlapping times, or a pre-announcement of 2 days could have also solved it. The phoenetic lose translation was for my taste too much as well. Maybe my english isn't good enough, I know others though that speak less or understand less than me, so I don't think Im alone on this.

Looking forward to the next puzzle though :)