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Amazing musical wooden machine powered by hand crank and 2000 marbles

Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:46 pm
Posted by Uncle Stu
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:46 pm
This shite is really impressive

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After two years of prototyping, tweaking, and building, Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan finally debuted his enormous musical marble machine.

The melody is primarily carried by a vibraphone whose bars are hit by falling marbles, but it also includes small percussion and cymbals, as well as a bass guitar neck. It even has a “breakdown” arm, which is a literal brake that kills the instrument’s flywheel—that huge spinning circle that’s primarily responsible for the marble machine keeping time accurately.


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Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted by Artie Rome
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:49 pm to
So it plays one song? I'll give ol' baw one of my old ipods.
Posted by Sterling Archer
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:50 pm to
Imagine what he could have built if he wanted to make something useful
Posted by jbgleason
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:51 pm to
Take that thing out to Jackson Square on a Saturday and I bet he could make Tree Fiddy in tips.
Posted by Artie Rome
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:56 pm to
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Take that thing out to Jackson Square on a Saturday and I bet some 12 year old who outweighs him steals it
Posted by Huey Lewis
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:56 pm to
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Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 4:00 pm to
good shite baw
Posted by Backinthe615
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 4:46 pm to
That's some real-life Dr. Seuss shite.
Posted by Phil A Sheo
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 4:52 pm to
Whelp I was proud of myself for building a few pieces of furniture for around the house.. Not sure i could make those cuts with a jigsaw..
Posted by Hook Em Horns
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 5:01 pm to
i must admit, that was marbelous.
Posted by Grim
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 5:05 pm to
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i must admit, that was marbelous.

I wooden say that but it's pretty cool
Posted by tylerdurden24
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 5:45 pm to
So we're brilliant enough to engineer something like that but dumb enough to take Donald Trump serious as a presidential candidate.

We are a very odd species
Posted by Phil A Sheo
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 5:49 pm to
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So we're brilliant enough to engineer something like that


Gonna go out on a limb and say it started as some dudes thought while he was high.. Grabbed a computer and a cnc machine and went to town..
Posted by tylerdurden24
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 6:20 pm to
Probably but, still, the ingenuity is really impressive.
Posted by Finch
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 6:27 pm to
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So we're brilliant enough to engineer something like that but dumb enough to take Donald Trump serious as a presidential candidate.


If he was feeling the Bern he would have to spend 40% of his time building free music machines for people who didn't want to build them for themselves.

FREE MUSIC FOR EVERYONE
Posted by Festus
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 6:35 pm to
That was awesome. The engineering is brilliant, and the sound was surprisingly rich. I wasn't expecting that at all. And how the dude learned to play it still has me scratching my head.

Nice find.
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 6:37 pm to
Swedish, huh?

I never would have guessed.

Thanks for posting it.

Posted by AnActualFan
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 6:59 pm to
Thanks for posting, very cool
Posted by Iron Lion
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:29 pm to
Impressive. Most impressive.
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