Thursday, March 7, 2013

A really unusual musical instrument

Some readers of DIT are probably old enough to remember seeing round discs with holes or punched out areas in them 

which produced music as they turned.

Others probably remember player pianos which also played automatically with a cylinder that was 'programmed' with the music.

But, the instrument we will be viewing today has both of these beat.

What is it?

Well, it is hard to describe so let's just watch and listen to a 4 minute 31 sec. video of it in action.


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