#50 Hands on Air
Aaliyah’s idea is a little like Sam’s idea in mechanism 49, except that where Sam has the piano played by individual fingers, Aaliyah uses whole hands! This is a fantastic design from Rookery School.
The player has a bucket of plastic hands to place on one end of a conveyor belt, and as they fall off at the other end, they strike the note. We didn’t have space to bring the conveyor belt all the way to the piano, so decided to stop the conveyor belt about half way to the piano, and then use a pulling string to play the note as each hand falls. We’ve also got to work out how to manufacture a whole set of plastic hands…
