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Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project | PopMatters


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“As Metheny stands on an oriental rug in this film, he’s surrounded by percussion instruments much more varied: pianos and marimbas, vibraphones and triangles, ride cymbals and gongs, tubes, wildly rubbed saws, banjos and guitars hung on a wall, even what appear to be jugs of liquid somehow triggered into making humming sounds.”

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