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Selectric Funeral

Still image for video link features two people in white button up shirts, with red ties, sitting in front of typewriters, they then begin to "play" the typewriters in this performance piece.

Watch “Selectric Funeral” on YouTube.

By James Brockman

Video

This is the Boston Typewriter Orchestra’s 2024 submission for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest. The song is an instrumental built around the IBM Selectric; our first recorded song with a (gasp!) electric typewriter and a squeaky rubber feet solo.

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