Several examples of automats musicians cuts human.

Above, a simulation a large whimsical organ carried out starting from authentic elements of old horse-gear.

Opposite, an accordionist with an old animated accordion also.

It should be noted that only instruments are used not being able to be the subject of a restoration.

Below, a player of barrel organ.

The principal movements of these automats are those of the head and the arms or hands on their musical instruments.

The music results from a sound source recorded and restored via suitable technologies.

In this case of figure, the sound is really that of the organ. For the stop at the end of the piece or roller, the unit is controlled electronically.

Below, three examples of children musicians: movements of the arms and the head.

The trades - and particularly trades old - are an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

The possibility of using real tools and of translating the most significant gestures of these various trades makes it possible - beyond its ludic mission - to invest the automat of a teaching dimension of witness of gestures and know-how become rare when they did not disappear.

Opposite, the apothecary finds, like the majority of the automats, a all the more realistic dimension as it is placed within a decoration which gives him its raison d'être.

Below, the ropemaking machine and its authentic old wheel - wheel modified for an intensive rotation.

Low, the woman with the sewing machine start, just like the ropemaking machine, the whole of the mechanisms of its trade.