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Variophone Crow — Description

Quite possibly the first ever fan-art surrounding the extinct species of musical instrument, the Variophone, in almost a hundred years since its introduction 96 years ago in 1930.
The crow featured here comes from "the Dance of the Crow" which uses shapes interpretated as instrumental sounds on a paper fed into a machine.
(Video shown here. "THE DANCE OF THE CROW")
(Video shown here. "THE DANCE OF THE CROW")
however the instrument itself as a machine would never see another surviving decade as during WWII, Leningrad, the place where the Variophone was created, was destroyed by the last missile sent by the Nazis.
And as the inventor was trying to create a new version of the variophone, despite the promises in musical experiment, the laboratory was moved and was removed from position as director, and died from illness in 1951, rendering the instrument as extinct