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The Musician of Jaquet-Droz
By John Kleinbauer

Hi All,

I found a new site,  It's a robotics site!  What does that have to do
with mechanical music you ask?  Well I ask you this question: Is a player
piano or barrel organ a robot?

On the site someone took the time to put up a example of a 1780
automate-robot-android.  There  are several pictures of the unit as well
as a 3-D picture (get out your glasses).  The automate is a woman
musician at a keyboard. The unit plays music!

Don't miss this one at:

    http://www.webo.com/jporter/acMdaEng.html

The "M" and "E" have to be capitals.


(Message sent Wed 24 Jun 1998, 11:15:10 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Jaquet-Droz, Musician

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