An English guy demonstrates his working Kempelen Speaking Machine

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Comment count is 9

Potrod - 2015-10-18

Surprisingly unimpressive!

Cena_mark - 2015-10-18

Word. I was expecting something that would have seemed ahead of its time, instead its a one note bagpipe.

Old_Zircon - 2015-10-18

There is a better video of a better demonstration of a better reproduction but it lacks this guy's style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRVqrfY3tQ

gravelstudios - 2015-10-18

Actually, I'd be willing to bet that if you had several people operating it with each person working a different control, with enough practice, you could probably make some pretty speechlike sounds with it.

duck&cover

- 2015-10-18

An early version of Frampton's talking guitar.

Meerkat

- 2015-10-18

Why did I immediately think someone must be fapping to this?

Oh. Never mind.

urbanelf

- 2015-10-18

There's a ball-gag version of this, I'm sure.

Old_Zircon - 2015-10-18

This is why I submitted it.

Robin Kestrel

- 2015-10-19

Grasp my leather bag.

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