The kinora was an early form of home entertainment.  If you've ever marked the corners of a book, then flipped through the pages to watch your doodles come to life - that's essentially how a kinora worked. There's a film of George Butterworth ( British composer, folk song collector) where he dances a Morris dance recorded in the silence of Kinora.  There's a distinct feeling to the adumbrated object.  Absence evokes a wierd kind of presence. It is the absolute most precise distillation of the object