He was known for composing music for "player pianos", mechanical instruments that play back music encoded as holes punched in a roll of paper.
A good review of the mechanical instruments developed for the early shallow-water surveys [5] pictures a wide variety of grab-like samplers, many still in use today.
The dimensions of the fretting marks found after testing for 100 h were measured using mechanical instruments and an interferometer.
The definition of the transfer characteristic by a transmission bandwidth with λs and λc-limits as defined in the GPS-standards for surface contact stylus measurement is transferred here to the optical instruments, which are widely used for the same task as the mechanical instruments.
Hundreds of electrical and mechanical instruments have been developed for research in psychomotor learning, but only about two dozen are used with any regularity.
Mechanical instruments are rare.
PACS numbers: 07.10 Mechanical instruments, 87.85 Biosensors, 47.85.
The 33-year-old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in Utrecht, Netherlands.
"I'm interested in the idea of new musical instruments that overcome the limitations of traditional mechanical instruments," Linn says on his website.
The earliest integrator was a mechanical instrument called the planimeter.
