I Have Not Posted Many Posts Today,

I have been too busy watching the ones featured today!

like this one of an orchestrion, which is a machine that plays many different musical instruments, most often including a piano with other instruments added, the music is programmed on rolls of paper like a player piano, the Philipps Paganini orchestrion was built by Philipps & Son’s in 1921, and is now at the Speelklok Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, this orchestrion pays 17 instruments,

in this video, Martin Molin of the band Wintergatan visits the museum to show us the Philipps Paganini and how it works, as an aside you may remember we have featured Wintergatan before, the overriding consideration when building a machine like this was that it should sound just like the real instruments, popular until the gramophone started to appear, they are a marvel of engineering, another two mug of coffee job!