Sarah Wallin HuffOct 10, 2024

https://sarahwallinhuff.com/2024/10/10/unit-7-self-playing-instruments/

#automatedMachines #machineMusic #musicBox #musicHistory #orchestrion #playerPiano #technology

Unit 7: Self-Playing Instruments

While humankind has been fascinated with self-playing instruments since antiquity, the machines of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the music written for them, caused society to begin questio…

Sarah Wallin Huff
Bas LangereisMay 23, 2023

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Pat Metheny - 'The Orchestrion Project' (2cd) (2013)

#PatMetheny's remarkable #orchestrion instrument, recorded live. Most compositions from #Metheny's 'Orchestrion' album, plus some new and well known pieces. Nice guitar playing. Interesting.

Show threadNed Stenger WhiteJan 8, 2023
and the astounding "Appolonia" orchestrion.
#MechanicalMusic #music #DanceOrgans #orchestrion