For American television viewers of the 1970s, The Magnificent Marble Machine was a gimmicky, short-lived game show centered around a giant pinball machine. The strange NBC daytime series probably owed ...

It's called a Wintergatan - a musical instrument built using 2000 marbles, and its melody is captivating the internet! It was built by Swedish musician Martin Molin, who created a wooden music box ...

Last week we brought you the Marble Machine made by Swedish band Wintergatan, an “instrument” that made beautiful music from thousands of individual marbles and moving parts. It is our job to write ...

He added: ‘You put a lego technic nail into the 32 bar loop grid and every nail drops one marble. There are 22 tracks for the nails and the marbles.’ ...

It looks like something straight out of the world of Dr. Seuss — but the music it makes could slip smoothly into any SoundCloud playlist and not raise a single eyebrow. Abstract artist and musician ...

After two years of prototyping, tweaking, and building, Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan finally debuted his enormous musical marble machine. The melody is primarily carried by a ...

Over the centuries, man has developed wonderful and intricate instruments that would delight our ears and pluck at our heartstrings. But what if you could somewhat undo all that and replace them with ...

A Swedish musician has harnessed the awesome power of marbles to create an absolutely ludicrous musical instrument which mixes classical melodies with more contemporary guitar sounds. The ‘Wintergatan ...

I blame the board game Mouse Trap for my fascination with marbles and Rube Goldberg devices. Marbles, dominoes — the kinds of fun that require a complicated setup. Planning. Precision. Engineering. If ...

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Does spending 14 months building an outrageous musical contraption that's powered by marbles mean that you've lost yours? If the end result is as impressive as the Wintergartan Marble Machine, we'd ...