Cool invention by Benjamin Franklin

[Dave W]

That marble machine needs a treadle instead of a hand crank. Poor guy probably went off to collapse at the end of the song.

[uwe]

Here's another strange musical instrument. Not the sound I'd expect from a bass slapped by marbles.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/this-ludicrous-new-instrument-makes-music-with-2000-marbles/

Wow - steam punk meets Edward Scissorhands and it even sounds good too - I'm impressed. Tubular marbles, alright!

[Highlander]

Beautiful... and totally pointless, which makes it even more endearing in its eccentricity...

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[Basvarken]

Wow that was great!

[slinkp]

I like what he does with fretting the bass strings. Took me a minute to realize what was happening because they weren't showing the bass portion when it entered the song.

[uwe]

It just dawned on me as well, he's not tapping, but actually fretting as the marbles hit the strings giving the bass that mildly slappy sound.

If this guy did a CD, I'd buy it no sweat, I really like the "early Oldfield transported into the present"-character of his music. And his mad scientist-spiel of course, plus he really seems to enjoy what he is doing and is not sour-faced about it.