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Fiddle Henge is an electroacoustic instrument designed by Ross Wightman, created to investigate themes related to performance practice, virtuosity, timbre, and resonance. Fiddle Henge is a robotically controlled array of four violins mounted on a 24” bass drum that is played by a motorized acrylic disk. Fiddle Henge was inspired by a collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata from the turn of the 20th century before phonographs and recorded music forced them into obsolescence, namely the Mills Violano-Virtuoso. Similar to the Violano-Virtuoso, the circular bow of Fiddle Henge allows tones to sustain indefinitely.