Marble Machine Orchestra Snopes

The marble machine is a handmade music box that powers a kick drum bass vibraphone and other instruments using a hand crank and 2 000 marbles.

Marble machine orchestra snopes.

95 000 product story. It is a machine that uses marbles to make music. Wintergatan are gearing up to release a double album embark on a world tour with the marble machine x. With dozens of beautifully carved wooden parts.

Listen to their current releases. The marble machine is versatile. The hand made music box built by swedish musician martin molin powers a kick drum bass vibraphone and other instruments using a hand crank and 2 000 marbles. I found out about it from a hammacher schlemmer catalogue as you might think it is related to the old orchestrions.

It took 14 months to build and features drums cymbals a vibraphone and bass. The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands. This is the mechanical musical apparatus made in. Follow the mmx build in their youtube series wintergatan wednesdays.

This is the mechanical musical apparatus made in sweden that generates mellifluous melodies with a multitude of marbles. The marble machine orchestra. Introducing the wintergartan marble machine. We regret that this item is no longer available.

The marble machine orchestra yes you read that correctly. Molin is able to make it play bass percussion and a vibraphone using a series of levers that direct the rolling marbles where he wants them. The marble machine orchestra.