Illustration of the Archimedes automatic wind instrumentalist (image courtesy Hatje Cantz) In 2009, Tokyo’s Waseda University built a fedora-sporting flautist robot powered by cranked air. But this is ...
MUSICAL MACHINES AND LIVING DOLLS : THE MURTOGH D GUINNESS COLLECTION OF MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND AUTOMATA ELLEN M SNYDERGRENIER FOREWORD BY STEVEN MILLER ESSAY BY ARTHUR WJG ORDHUME ...