Bibelregal - Musikmuseet tester

Bibelen er i virkeligheden et orgel, der i sin tid blev brugt på slotte og i velstående hjem fx til ledsagelse af solosang. Det ligner en bibel, der så bliver 'tryllet' om til et lille orgel. Til trods for bibelformen, fungerede de ikke som kirkeorgler i 1600-tallet.
Dette eksemplar er en cirka 30 år gammel kopi bygget af Ture Bergstrøm.

[@willemkossen]

I think these instruments should be made again. There is definitely a market. I'ld love to have one!

[@baxter5431]

Wonderful! Who needs 21st Century digitalization when there's 16th Century brilliance?
What a great design & sound! Thanks for this demonstration.

[@AerialTheShamen]

Transformer! - from Bible to pipe organ...
This is really the craziest and most clever little organ ever seen. Despite "Bibelregal" came much earlier than the accordion, it has real keys (not buttons), and so was basically the world first ultra-portable keyboard.
Even the somewhat complicated setup of the collapsible contraption is exciting to watch. Finally revealing the bellows in the book cover completing the thing is a fun moment (like a stage prop created for a vaudeville or magic show), and then the unexpected polyphonic medieval timbre it it plays (while despite tiny size depending on a helper for the bellows) makes this truly awesome. I love it.
The need of bellow helper and 2 external weights hint how unoptimized the invention still was. Simply adding 2 ropes with foot nooses running over e.g. a high rim under the table would have permitted the organist to pump the bellows by himself (like a modern harmonium).
The museum should definitely x-ray this instrument in a CAT scanner to publish detailed blueprints for replicating the device. This ingenious invention is as brilliant and historically important as the first watch by Peter Henlein, and deserves to be copied and played again by musicians.

[@user-fr5zw7sv6z]

I believe they made plans of it. I am here to understand is this is that regal

[@nicholaslittle2312]

Look Mum No Computer could rebuild and modify to work with a midi controller 😅

[@penfold7800]

Brilliant. Excellent engineering went in to this to make it so portable. You could even hide it in a bookshelf!

[@twokool4skool129]

Portability with this is important. After you play, you need to be able to pack quickly because the locals chase you out of town!

[@dbadagna]

Is there a video on the Internet where we could see what the reeds look like, and how they work?

[@joshtaylor485]

it was really neat to see a full instrument to be packaged together in such a small box

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

This is the precursor of the Harmonium.

[@kermitefrog64]

This is a neat looking instrument. I have never seen this before.

[@bkarosi]

I would love to buy one!

[@SoggySandwich80]

Il pay more attention to antique boxes when I go to Antique stores, very unlikely Il find one but now I know what to look for

[@blipblip88]

LOVELY!! More More More!!!!! Bravo!! Please post more music on this! Wonderful!!

[@nicholaslittle2312]

It's so lovely the way it packs into a large book. Essential it is like the Hohner Melodica. I really love that medieval sound! Thank you for sharing.

[@lucym5163]

Incredible design for any era! And to think it survived too.

[@thomasciul8932]

What nasty noisy instrument. I just love it!

[@walterdonatiello6734]

Stupenda

[@jordanstark3327]

The regal lives up to its name!!!!

[@user-gu9co4li9l]

I'd like one of these for Christmas, please! 😎

[@nicholaslittle2312]

🎉

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Mind-blowing! Well done!

[@ediwansilva7761]

great!

[@hjgk4568]

Bescheidener Klang.

[@SYLVESTRIVS]

NOSSA! Eu amei este instrumento, muito bonito, adorei a maneira como foi feito =P

[@RosssRoyce]

Amazing!

[@Devta108]

😊👍🏼🎹🎹🎹🎼🎵🎶

[@goldeneggduck]

Marvellous!

[@samuelecannicci8983]

Hi, you have the plane of costruction of this regal organ?

[@diomedesrosaspon3154]

Wonderfull, congratulations from Argentina.

[@bifeldman]

Well, that’s something different.

[@EricLeiserArtist00]

nice

[@dingomusiktheater]

Is this somewhere available? Very interesting and funny instrument!

[@AnqiCui]

Can we find it anywhere to buy?

[@klemeneler7986]

Would be great to have it sampled for Hauptwerk software!

[@tymime]

Some assembly required.

[@halcyonzenith4411]

It sounds like a car horn trying out for the choir

[@cartapax5077]

Somehow gonna build me one..
but with the c#

[@jackhousman6637]

I want one!

[@Sublibrarian11918333]

I would prefer a Jupiter Bayan.

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

Is this not really a portable harmonium?

[@shiningarmor2838]

The reeds are beating, which makes it a regal

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

hamonium is not related to the regal.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@UCZKCPut9Chv_Py_fqBYaz8A
There should be a version with up to 108 Keys for us Pianists (C0 to B8) that actually runs on a motor operated fan which I call the Electric Beluga Bibelregal.

[@toolguy6534]

I don't see where the pipes/reeds are.

[@bendeguznemes9871]

Under the keys.

[@therealzilch]

Besser als eine echte Bibel allentfalls.

[@OTOss8]

I mean this is cool 'n all but it ain't no apfelregal.

[@mateuszg.1790]

kto z elekcji

[@therealzilch]

Regals: yes. Bible: no.

[@twokool4skool129]

That thing sounds awful.

[@bendeguznemes9871]

It's sounds like regal....