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Topic: Wintergaten Marble Music Machine |
Skip Edwards
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 10:23 pm |
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Now I've seen things like this animated before, but this one is real. A hand-cranked instrument that operates on marbles. There's a piano roll type mechanism that sends marbles to hit vibe bars, a bass (looks like a Hofner) that has the strings struck by marbles while the operator frets it, marbles hitting electronic drum pads, and so on. There's a mixer on the back & some sort of pre-amp or something.
Lot's of questions here... who has the time to think this up and build it? And why?
Well, why not?
Check it out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 11:55 pm Re: Wintergaten Marble Music Machine
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| Skip Edwards wrote: |
And why?
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Maybe because he couldn't find a human willing to play anything so boring and monotonous. |
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Skip Edwards
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LA,CA
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Posted 27 Dec 2017 12:02 am
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Yeah...the little tune it plays is a bit lame. Seems the guy is building a new & improved (?!) version, using CAD design & construction, 3D printing, etc...able to play more stuff.
It's good to have a mission in life, I guess... |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2017 12:17 am
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| Maybe he could find some of Pierre Brassau's family to write some better material. |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 27 Dec 2017 12:19 am
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| A new take on the Monkees... |
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Larry Carlson
From:
My Computer
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Posted 27 Dec 2017 7:11 am
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Interesting engineering.
I have a feeling he lives alone.
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I have stuff.
I try to make music with it.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
But I keep on trying. |
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Barry Blackwood
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