Raymond Scott's Electronium

I came across Raymond Scott's "Electronium" while browsing the Internet today. From http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/electronium.html:

"Developed by Raymond Scott in 1959, the Electronium was a large-scale composing machine. As Scott described it: "A composer 'asks' the Electronium to 'suggest' an idea, theme, or motive. To repeat it, but in a higher key, he pushes the appropriate button. Whatever the composer needs: faster, slower, a new rhythm design, a hold, a pause, a second theme, variation, an extension, elongation, diminution, counterpoint, a change of phrasing, an ornament, ad infinitum ...""

http://raymondscott.com/Electron.html
http://raymondscott.com/em.html


Scott harvested parts from the Electronium for use in other music-generating devices, so it is no longer operational. There is a YouTube video showing the device as it is today: