[Teever]

Great link!

The Youtube Algorithm must be recommending similar videos to the both of us as I started getting the same kind of content a few weeks ago. I'm pretty partial to the Ace of Base "I saw the sign" cover that it's been recommending.[0]

I did a little bit of digging and found this guys website: https://www.mechanicalmusicman.com/

It would be neat to see a humanoid robot feed the tape into the machine and press play and then have the camera zoom out to a bunch of robots dancing together.

Something about robots dancing to music that's produced by a mechanical MIDI machine feels right. Like a prelude to the impending replacement of humanity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAXxcx2uGQ

[ChrisbyMe]

I actually wrote the post so thank you! I hadn't found that guys website and will check it out.

There's a really interesting history of automata at Disney too, someone made a very good video about it here if you haven't seen it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk

[cluckindan]

I’ve been getting these recommendations too!

One of the guy’s videos shows a pile of piano rolls for the machine, and one is labeled ”Never gonna give you up” :-)