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The American Fotoplayer
- Animats 3y agoThe next step up is an orchestron, where the auxiliary instruments are all played automatically.[1] These got bigger and bigger and reached ridiculous scale around 1900. The most advanced multiple-instrument machine was the Mills Violano Virtuoso.[2] This combined a violin and a piano. It's a beautiful piece of mechanical engineering. These things were robust enough to be coin-operated. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOGDBuKz5ZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOGDBuKz5ZM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldufj3RdXI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldufj3RdXI0