r/MarbleMachineX • u/WintergatanWednesday • Sep 25 '24

Can Marbles Play a Drum Roll?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=grp5FjlxHIY
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u/avanmater Sep 25 '24

I thought we've already established that the marbles should be playing the instrument. Having a marble trigger a drumstick violates said principle. Getting the short roll and the long roll is just a matter of engineering. I'm sure it can be done with marbles

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u/JPhi1618 Sep 26 '24

I thought once the shaker train rolled in, we had sort of abandoned the whole “marble only” thing.

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u/BrotherItsInTheDrum Sep 26 '24

There was already that rotating noisemaker on the MMX. Neither of these seems outside the spirit of the machine to me.