FLIPPERKASTAUTOMAT

“While you’re playing yourself out in lonesome dissipation in front of a pinball machine, someone else might be reading through Proust. Still another might be engaged in heavy petting with a girlfriend at a drive-in theater showing of Paths of Courage. The one could well become a writer, witness to the age; the others, a happily married couple. Pinball machines, however, won’t lead you anywhere. Just the replay light. Replay, replay, replay…” 

— Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

Technical notes

Required materials:

Cello:

• Plastic ruler approximately 16 cm long, to be placed between the strings
• Plastic card (e.g., credit card)

Piano:

• Metal plate (approximately 10 cm in diameter) 
• Plastic card (e.g., credit card)
• 3 tuning wedges or rubbers
• Adhesive putty (Patafix, Blue Tack)