Wintergartan Marble Machine
This guy's a madman. He crafted this thing by hand, and everything is triggered by falling marbles. His only musical involvement was pre-setting the pegs, controlling the speed, and fretting the bass as it plays (marbles hammer the strings). His current project is an upgraded version of it and he's switched from wood to metal. Seems he might be handy in a garage. The new one also has acoustic drums rather than samples.
That's freakin' insane (and a YT rabbit hole I really don't need to go down)!
Kinda surprised there isn't a thread for this (at least not that I could find).
This video popped up on the right side of the screen when I was watching something else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4
In 1956, the last surviving witness to Abraham Lincoln's assassination appeared on a TV show called I've Got a Secret. Celebrity panelists would ask questions to deduce the person's "secret." In this clip, the first panelist, Bill Cullen, pretty much nailed it from the outset.
Anyway...kinda cool.
I've seen this video before, and it's so damn fascinating. A stark reminder that sometimes the past isn't as far back as it seems when reading about events out of a textbook.
Exactly. It's also the sort of thing that makes me regret never sitting down and talking with my mother about her early life. She was born in 1923, got married to my father in 1944, right before he went into the Navy in WWII. In 1945, his ship was hit by a kamikaze plane, and she traveled by train -- while pregnant with my brother -- to meet my father after in San Francisco. Somewhere, there's a narrative of that journey that she wrote. I need to find it because it's about all I have other than some photos of her as a child.