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Award-winning singer, musician and composer Luke Daniel brings his solo show, which uses an original 19th century Polyphon machine as part of the performance, to the Guildford Institute on 1st May 2020 when clockwork and sampled sound will be beautifully crafted into traditional and modern songs and intriguing instrumental tunes. The Polyphon, plus Luke's award-winning instrumental skills, promises a night of outstanding acoustic music.

The Polyphon is a disc-playing music box, a mechanical device manufactured in Leipzig, Germany in 1880. Disc projections, called plectra, engage with a series of ratchet-like star wheels, that, when moved through 40 degrees on their axis, pluck 120 teeth on the instruments bed plate and comb, these teeth then resonate, sounding predetermined notes. You can see a brief clip of a Polyphon in action on the Youtube clip above or hear the full version of Luke's beautiful version of Nic Jones' Canadee-I-O on this Soundcloud link.

A BBC award winning folk musician and former Riverdance band member, Luke who has performed with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Cara Dillon and De Dannan and was a soloist on the soundtracks of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. He has performed at the Royal Festival Hall, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Edinburgh Festival's Assembly Rooms and on Broadway.

Please note that the original booking with Nancy Kerr, their Canterbury Tales song-cycle, has had to be postponed to a later date due to a delay in Arts Council funding.

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Ward Street,

Guildford,

Surrey,

England,

GU1 4LH.