A possible fix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plDslml6MBk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Why not, as Irish is an Indo-european language anyway. Probably be the next Big Thing for accompaniment; only slightly farther afield than the bouzouki.
Please to be saying thank you for your link. 
Isn’t that melody the opening notes of something by Burt Bacharach, or 10cc, or the Starlight Vocal Band…?
I prefer a bit more lively automoton, myself: 
Russian ROBOT GUITAR. Tico-Tico - YouTube
PFFFFFFFT! NOTHING can beat THIS!
If only someone brought this magnificent piece of work to a session!
Awesome! This is the coolest! Conlon Nancarrow has nothin on this guy!
Is it “Send in the Clowns?”
I prefer a bit more lively automoton, myself: >
But can it play stairway to freeburd?
I know right!? 
The robot keeps dropping beats in “Tico Tico”. Maybe it’s been hanging out with some session players I’ve known … 
Conlon, heh. Even that dude with 12 fingers in the movie Gattaca couldn’t play that stuff.
I agree with the top commentor on ennischanter’s link: “What the fucking FUCK did I just see before me!?” Was expecting something approaching a melody, like what they did with the first PCs: Altair 8800b Fool on the Hill Demo - YouTube Instead it was just 2 minutes of atonal nightmare fodder.
Maybe dropping beats are a Russian thing? “Dropping beats” sounds like the kind of music best appreciated with lots of flashing strobes/Ecstasy, actually…
I love the name of it too! The Furby Gurdy!. Some people have too much free time! I’d love to take up circuit bending one day..
Now, what about This thing?