NO-ONE has composed music for this Victorian music box in 132 years.

But with digital technology and a little know-how, folk singer Luke Daniels has brought the Polyphon into the 21st century.

Performing at Winchester's Railway Inn on Saturday March 12, the Glasgow-based songwriter will show off a new computer programme which can map his music to the 19th century instrument via steel discs.

First manufactured in 1870 by the Polyphon Musikwerke in Leipzig, Germany, the Polyphon plays music from 19-inch steel discs.

Daniels painstakingly restored the 4ft high music box and reverse engineered Victorian technology to arrange well-known folk tunes such as Cumberland Reel and Canadee IO.

Using technology such as optical sensors and MIDI programming, he has produced the instrument's first new music for 132 years.

Originally from a musical family in London and a former BBC Young Tradition Award winner, Luke's influences include English folk singers such as Nic Jones, Martin Carthy, Richard Thompson, Scottish singer Dick Gaughan and Irishman Rory Gallagher.

Daniels has been playing professionally since the age of 17 and has shared stage and studio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and the internationally renowned Riverdance Band.

He is a Celtic Connections regular and frequent guest in Cara Dillon's band. In recent years, Daniels has focused on ideas from modern day progressives to Scottish Enlightenment theories. His desire to explore the role that folk music plays in strengthening our sense of community has inspired a new album due out next month, combining his songs with the Victorian Polyphon.

At the Winchester performance Daniels will combine the machine with his prowess as a songwriter, guitarist and pianist.

He is also a melodeon virtuoso, playing the small accordion on soundtracks for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies.

Support comes from Rob Johnston - not to be confused with legendary and long-dead bluesman Robert Johnson.

Tickets cost £10 in advance or £12 on the door, which opens at 7.30pm. Admission is 18 plus. To book, or for more information, visit railwayinn.pub.