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Hand-Punched Music Roll of "Tainted Love"
By Kip Williams

The popular webpage Boing Boing has an article on a person who has
hand-punched the song "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell onto a length of
punched roll for a small music box that he apparently bought as a kit.
(It's from the 1980s; I know of it because it was used in a funny TV
ad a decade or so back.)

Rookie or not, I think he hit it out of the park on his self-assigned
task, and the video of his achievement shows that he succeeds also in
a pretty even roll-out, considering he has to crank it all by hand
(and the box isn't screwed down, adding to the suspense).

I was pleased to see this and hope you'll enjoy it. It's offbeat,
and it's an example of a younger person looking into mechanical music.
(I got through the whole post without calling him a "kid"! This doesn't
count.)

https://boingboing.net/2021/01/21/tainted-love-on-a-hand-cranked-music-box.html 

Kip Williams


(Message sent Sat 23 Jan 2021, 18:55:49 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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