Stella 17-Inch Music Box Playing "At A Darktown Cakewalk"
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Here's my 17" Stella Console Grand playing "At A Darktown Cakewalk". Cakewalks, a largely forgotten part of our musical past, were popular during the heyday of Minstrel shows well over 100 years ago and were always performed in a quick and lively tempo. Hope you enjoy this.
Thank you for your gracious comments! I have always appreciated these early music machines and the delightful sounds that they still produce after more than one hundred years. These machines represent a refreshing testament to the quality and workmanship of that period. Thanks for stopping in for a visit!
MusicBoxBoy I have some of these metal records
Oh wow, i don't know what these are or how they work.
I came from whosampled.
Its amazing to see all the beautiful and unique ways humans have come up with to project music. That is one awesome machine, you must be proud!!!!!
Holy shit thats beautiful
the resonance of this, the tone, the ethereal drone is just unbelievably beautiful. can you perhaps record this using high end audio recording equipment? this is so pretty!!!
I'm going to have to buy one of these.
Supposedly the origin of "shave and a haircut"
"supposedly" XD
Did you found an older song with these notes?
It sure is
This sounds so magical, very beautiful sound.
Followup: that IS what it is referring to! I just read up on cakewalks, and they were largely a black thing in the late 19th century.
A ‘black thing’ was actually an Enslaved thing. Made to perform for white folks to get a a slice/piece of cake at the end of the performance. 😮 15 years later from this post, we get the truth. We get the origin of the Famous door knock through the song, the meaning of Cakewalk, and a black history lesson. Amazing! 🎉
Bit of "hungarian Rhapsody" in there I think...
the knock.
Starts at 0:21
cave man's digital ! amazing!
This is kick ass! Where'd you get it!?
that is why i'm here.
Wow! This was posted 15 years ago?????? People were barely on the Internet. Thanks for posting and you might get more views this year as we, Black Americans seek more understanding of our history. I’m sure that wasn’t your intent however, this song was actually created for the Enslaved folks to entertain (dance) for white Immigrants (Americans) and Cake was the given as a prize or perhaps payment for their humiliating yet, entertaining ‘work’. They were clever enough to name the dance ‘cakewalk’ it that as they created the to Mock how they perceived white folks to dance 😮
Shave and a haircut ... 2 bits 0:34 1:02 1:16
0:23
Midi before midi
@telesniper2 Cakewalks as musical pieces were white. The dance was devised by blacks as a way of mocking the way white people danced. All the written cakewalks were written by white composers--especially Kerry Mills, J. Bodewalt Lampe and Abe Holzmann. The Joplin-Marshall piece "Swipesy Cakewalk" is an exception although a lot of musicologists don't consider it a cakewalk.
Shave and a hair cut - ten cents.