This was John and Rosemary Blythe's second visit to our society, and we had no idea what to expect from their presentation of 'Mechanical Music'. It turned out to be a memorable evening absorbing the history and listening enthralled to the music emanating from these musical marvels of sound and engineering.
These machines first appeared in the 16th century with wind/reed instruments very much like an organ and evolving into metallic cylinders and discs and punched cards. They concluded with the invention of the horn gramophone playing shellac discs that evolved into our modern plastic records.
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