Marble Machine Subculture

But as it turns out it s even more fun to watch an automated machine that plays with marbles.

Marble machine subculture.

The program premiered on nbc on july 7 1975 at 12 00 pm et replacing the short lived game show blank check. The magnificent marble machine was an american television game show that featured a giant pinball machine as its centerpiece. Merrill heatter and bob quigley packaged the program with robert noah as executive producer. 9 32 inch stainless steel ball.

After stumbling across the existing marble machine subculture molin set aside a couple of months to build his own music machine. Molin previously told wired the project was directly inspired by the existing marble machine subculture i stumbled over the marble machine culture it s a whole subculture and was always. Molin is able to make it play bass percussion and a vibraphone using a series of levers that direct the rolling marbles where he wants them. This automation could in theory lead to gains in productivity as people are now freed up to pursue more productive goals.

Art james served as host and johnny gilbert was the announcer. Marble machines are complicated but useless pieces of toy machinery that automate the process of playing with marbles. The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands.