The Typewriter Orchestra


Great Big Story chats with Alex Holman from The Boston Typewriter Orchestra, a quirky six-man ensemble that has been typing out tunes on antique typwriters since 2004.

“For pre-digital natives, there’s nothing quite as nostalgia-inducing as the manual “click,” “clack” and “ding” sounds of an old mechanical typewriter. That’s why The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is making these old machines quite literally “sing” again.

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