THE ONE-MAN-BAND HAS BEEN PERFECTED IN THE WINTERGATAN MARBLE MACHINE

Martin Molin Proves All You Need is Imagination with His Beautifully Complex Music Machine

Martin Molin is a musician as well as an imaginative inventor, deft fabricator and an ingenious mathematician. The machine is built from birch ply-wood and can play a full drum-set, a bass guitar and vibraphone at once.  Notes are struck using falling marbles and modulated my Martin’s hand. The real magic is all the math and engineering which went into the design. The machine is gear-driven, and the marble action is sort-of like a music box, teeth on a belt engage arms which release the balls. Each ball drops in a specific spot to actuate a vibraphone note, drum sound or a bass string.