Siegfred's Mechanical Music Instruments, Germany

2016 Cruising Europe Richard n Sheila Travels
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Day 20
Friday, July 8, 2016
☀️ 24 °C
Altitude: 89 m
Germany Rüdesheim am Rhein 49.979444, 7.92027849°58’46” N 7°55’13” E
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Siegfred's Mechanical Music Instruments
July 8, 2016 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
The largest collection of working mechanical music instruments and cabinets in the world. Some instruments are 300+ years old. Siegfried started the collection and still lives at the museum even though nearly 90 yo. Quite extraordinary. Just a few featured in these pics...they played about 20 for us, some not exactly perfect, but incredibly engaging nonetheless. There's not a digital control in the place, everything is purely mechanical.Read more
Richard n Sheila Travels Fitting look for the museum ...
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Richard n Sheila Travels Not only a pianola, but a string octet as well, plus percussion in there somewhere too! All run from thatscroll of paper centre front. The circular band at centre of violins is the "bow", and spins faster and slower for effect. The violins themselves move outward to touch the bow to play each note, which is determined by the little metal fingers on each violin. Curved cabinet doors close over the violins when not playing. Crikey!
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Richard n Sheila Travels There's pretty much a whole orchestra in this one. Again, controlled only by that roll of perforated paper...
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