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I will confess to my readers, I have never heard of the orchestrion before. One day, however, A BBC report about the newly-released album by Pat Metheny with the same name really peeked my curiosity.

Turns out the idea is not that new and has been tried by multiple inventors and musicians all the way back since the 19th century. Well, the Wikipedia article about orchestrion can tell you a more complete story than I ever could. :)

To finish off the subject, below are two clips from Youtube, one from the past of the orchestrion and another from the very recent. Enjoy!

Pat Metheny describes his latest musical project Orchestrion.

(Hit HQ for stereo.! This is part of a track (Coppelia) from a 1968 recording of the Imhof & Mukle " Tower Orchestrion " which was, at the time of recording, in the Birmingham Museum of Science …)