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Pet Metheny, The Orchestrion Project (Nonesuch)

Obviously it must be different if you are actually jazz guitar maestro Pat Metheny and making all this noise happen all by yourself, but as a humble listener I have a bit of a problem with his Orchestrion project: I can't just listen to it without wanting to see it as well.

Metheny's one-man orchestra is a vast array of tuned and un-tuned percussion, including pianos, that is operated by solenoids and pneumatic and triggered by his guitar playing. It is, as the man explains eloquently on his website, a contemporary development of the player-pianos of old.

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