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Robot Parts Orchestrion plays "Rock Lobster"
By Bob Fitterman

This is not the style of music most of you expect to hear from
a mechanical musical performance, but I figured I'd share it with you:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2SnYa2aJNo
Attachment thumbnail Yes, there's a modified guitar, drums, tambourines, but there's also a synthesized keyboard, a synthesized voice and the stepper motor from two flatbed scanners (the flat things in the video that are, well, about the size of a flatbed scanner). You just might not realize what you're looking at unless you've pulled your scanner apart or watched it running with the cover open and nothing on the glass. They're highlighted in the last 10 seconds of the video. Bob Fitterman

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