If you want joy, listen to a live symphony. If you want delight, listen to Bill Edgerton's mechanical music. Edgerton is maestro to a veritable museum of mechanized, self-playing instruments. Ten ...

UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok ...

Before there were robots, self-driving cars and AI, there were automated mechanical music machines: self-playing pianos, organs, even banjos and violins. And sitting in a piano storage warehouse in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Rolmonica Music Company created ...

The Science Buzz Cafe will hear from Bert Hopkins at 7 p.m. Thursday. He will explore self-playing instruments at The French Garden Restaurant, 8050 Bodega Ave. in Sebastopol. $4. Email ...

Imagine American composer-multi-instrumentalist Frank Pahl and the French team of Francoise & Christophe Petchanatz (who perform together as Klimperei) as a trio of musical puppeteers with a ...