The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium (orrery). Clair Omar Musser's invention showed the asteroid belt and "would also improve upon traditional orreries by adding the paths of well-known comets." https://spectrum.ieee.org/desktop-planetarium
“performing Musser’s etudes for marimba is a rite of passage for percussion majors.
…Musser’s orrery in Seattle was decidedly second fiddle to his participation in the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition in 1933–34. There, nightly in the Hall of Science, Musser directed a 100-piece marimba orchestra. They played original compositions by Musser, as well as special arrangements of popular pieces.”
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