This amazing instrument is The Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina - an Orchestrion with self-playing Violins!
The Carillon is a clock tower instrument and probably a dutch invention although historians are not entirely sure. This carillon is built around 1600 in zierkzee, The Netherlands.
In this Episode of Music Machine Mondays we are looking at The Polyphon disc changing Music Box. A coin operated automatic music box that later evolved into the Juke Box.
The Schuyt dance organ was originally two organs built in 1913 by Mortier in Belgium. This 105 year old organ has an implemented MIDI system and can play the Marble Machine Song!
The Paganini is an Orchestrion built in 1921. It is the flagship model of Philipps & Son’s from Frankfurt. It is the largest remaining orchestrion of the company. The 3 meters high cabinet houses an instrumentation that can replace 15 musicians.
This Barrel Organ with Automata was has 25 programming tracks, 22 tracks for music and 3 tracks for the moving automata figures. One of the figurines even performs a magic trick.
If you ever dreamt of waking up one day and just be able to play piano fluently without having to practice the Grandiola Piano Player is probably your best option.
Malgosia Fiebig surprised me completely by playing the Marble Machine song on the Carillion of the Domtoren clock tower for the whole city of Utrecht!
This is the amazing Self Playing Steinway Duo-Art Piano, it records a pianists performance in real time
Joost taught me how to play, or grind as it is called with the proper term, a street organ and it was much more difficult than i could have guessed!
In this episode we are visiting the Workshop of the Speelklok Museum, and Martin Paris who works in the Workshop shows us, 3 music boxes and a surprise, a Swedish Table!
In this Episode of Music Machine Mondays we are featuring two mechanical masterpieces, The Allin Walker Musical Clock from 1750 and the Porter Music Box from 1978.
In todays Episode we are looking at the MASSIVE 120 year old Gavioli Dance Organ.
This could maybe be seen as the earliest music recording in History, enjoy some fine Joseph Haydn beats, the exact way he wanted them to boom!
These instruments are really Amazing! Enjoy the list of the Top 10 amazing mechanical music instruments at Speelklok Museum!
