This week: more music than I'd expected to put in one newsletter.

• From the Open Reel Ensemble: "a traditional folk instrument made by stretching magnetic tape across bamboo". I feel like I should have heard of the Ensemble before now.
   
• Rhapsody in Lingo is from Hong Kong, and after learning Welsh for two years, he took a road trip around Wales. This is partly a travel vlog, and partly stories about languages and the ideals of language learning. And the comments from Welsh speakers underneath it are delightful. (Thanks to an anonymous reader for the suggestion!)
   
• Drinking coffee from a cup made of coffee. Calm, silent, and almost meditative, with subtitles to explain what's happening as the process continues and continues.

• Thanks to Lou for sending over this Japanese collection of novelty calculators. For a moment I thought the "sliding puzzle" one might actually be a real working sliding puzzle where each tile was a calculator button, but no, the puzzle just changes the colours, the buttons don't move!
   
• Phil Gyford recalls his first months in cyberspace, which will likely produce either nostalgia, incredulity, or confusion depending on your age and level of tech-savviness.
   
• And from a very different era of historical technology: restoring the first recording of computer music. The restored recording is on SoundCloud, but I'd recommend reading the whole piece for the details on how they worked out the pitch it should be played at -- because it was recorded at a slightly wrong speed!
   

And finally: a couple of weeks ago, I linked to 90s Europop on a street organ. Well, here's an explanation of how that organ works!

All the best,

— Tom