YouTube user created the out of two 3.5-inch drives and two 5.25-inch drives connected to a microcontroller. Over USB, it can then connect with any MIDI source. The MIDI in his version responds to 128 MIDI notes. The four drives use different tones and ranges, and are generally arranged painstakingly by hand.

As George explains: "It features two modes of operation. In one mode, MIDI channels one through four are played directly on floppy drives one through four. In the other mode, all 16 MIDI channels are read and notes are "intelligently" divvied out on a first-come, first-serve basis.

"'Note stealing' ensures that melody lines sound, but chords are often cut short. One or the other produces acceptable results for many unmodified MIDI files straight out of your favorite media player."

Check out the video below of his floppy disk setup doing its thing. As you can see, it's far from a flop (sorry, lame joke).

Of course, George is not the first person to put floppy drives to musical use. Check out this amazing one, or this floppy (turn your volume down for this one!). Not forgetting other objects that are capable of performing, like a scanner doing piece as it scans. Although, the most ultimate in making PCs musical has to be this doing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.