
Behold! The above contraption is The Cybraphon , and listeners who requested more unusual- instrument music like The Scavanger Quartet and The Boston Typewriter Orchestra will want to prick up their ears for this marvel of mechanical music. Edinburg, Scotland's FOUND group have built a self-playing musical robot housed in a cabinet, but unlike other robo-musicians that we've featured here who play rock, jazz, or electronica, The Cybraphon takes an antique-garde approach in terms of both look and sound: "Inspired by early 19th century mechanical [...]