As a classical musician, if I was rich I would love to have one of these in my living room. I do not have the ability of site, but based on the way this sounds online I can hardly imagine how it would sound up close. I have always had a liking for mechanical things like music boxes and clocks, but never have I heard something so melodious in my lifetime.
You are entirely correct. Cylinder music boxes were first around 1800 and then disc based music boxes were invented in the later 1800s which allowed new songs to be played on a music box machine - similar to a vinyl record. Mechanical music machines using paper sheets or wooden cobs were also available (player pianos, roller organs, etc.). Then gramophones came along and finally record players that played 78 rpm records. Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
The first cylinder played some of my favorite songs and I almost cried. I've always loved music boxes and now I aspire to one day have one this magnificent!
"i literally cried tears of absolute joy while listening to this. I felt like a fairy tale princess being swept into a dream waltz the entire time. This sounds so amazing! I was not expecting that complexity. I would love to have one of these! So incredibly lovely!
This nearly made me return to a previous life in the country when nothing much happened and these magical boxes were gateways to fantastic worlds of imagination. Times when you really stop and let music take you to places.
The box itself has been beautifully restored. I would really like to see the marquetry shown a bit closer so I could fully appreciate the craftsmanship that went into achieving this beautiful detail. I loved how beautiful the music sounded as it played ! Thanks for this wonderful video.
Beautiful piece of machinery. When I was young, one of my great aunts left a Regina music box with us for several year, with a number of the metal "records". Unique sounding music, and mesmerizing to watch.
What a beautiful piece! I was previously unaware that such complex music boxes existed. I'd love to see the inner workings of one. Thank you for your content.
I’ll admit there are some small ones today that actually sound quite beautiful to me. One might probably say I’ve collected music boxes since before I could even say “music box”! In other words, I’ve pretty much owned alt least one since I was born. First it was this yellow puppy with blue ears that sat in a doghouse, as well as a miniature grandfather clock and my musical mobile that featured “flying” plush clown dolls in little hanging hoops. However, my first ever “serious” or fancy music box was given to me right about when I was a schoolboy at 7 years old or so. It was a small light brown jewelry box with a dark red velvety interior that you could insert your own pictures into. We chose to put in a photo of me sitting on my bed surrounded by my stuffed toys, and that childhood photo is still framed in it to this day. Shortly after that one, I started collecting musical snowglobes and glitter globes along with some porcelain or ceramic things with music boxes inside. I think I’ll just list some of my most favorite ones I’ve had here: A snowman that opens up to reveal a scene of ice skaters (plays Frosty the Snowman) A nutcracker automaton with a drum (plays The Little Drummer Boy) Santa with a ton of toys in his sleigh which has 2 beautiful reindeer hitched to the front (plays Here Comes Santa Claus, although the musical movement is kind of worn out so some notes don’t resonate like they should.) A dark brown box with a glass lid. When you open it there’s a tiny little winter scene with a train that turns. (plays We Wish You a Merry Christmas) Yet another one with a train- this one’s a red box designed to look like a matchbox. (plays Jingle Bells). This one is part of a series called Matchbox Melodies, hence the matchbox-like design. And those are just some of the Christmas ones I have. There are many more!
This and piano rolls, yeah. Piano rolls are obviously less limited in how long a song they can play, but instruments like these were absolutely in the minds of the engineers that drafted the MIDI spec.
That is the most lovely music box with cylinders that I have ever seen:)! It is an awesome source for nostalgia and classic musical pieces:) Awesome, video:)!
Is the cylinder slightly shifting to the right or left to play different songs? I don't notice movement until the end when it seems to 'reset' its position. I think that is how it works.. wow imagine doing the cylinders...crafting them that is.
Both. The cylinder moves ever so slightly (less than 1 mm) to the right allowing a different set of cylinder pins to strike the comb. After all of the pins have been played, the cylinder snaps back to the left allowing the first set of pins to play once again. This is how all cylinder music boxes work - some antique examples play 12 or 16 songs. Antique music boxes were crafted entirely by hand and each pin was manually placed. Today, CNC machines are used so the process is much less manually intensive. Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
I noticed the same thing, and my conclusion is that the three songs are lined up after each other in a spiral way. So, while playing, the cylinder gradually shifts, not in steps, but continuously, and then at the end it snaps back into the initial position again. So between the "metal notes" (that vibrate) there is a distance which will fit three spiraling turns. It seems to be not so much space as that, but if you would look at the tip of each vibrating metal piece, you would see that it is pointed, so between the pointed ends of two adjacent metal pieces, there is this full distance of three spiraling turns. It is a bit difficult to explain this for me, partly because English is not my native language.
You are so lucky to be able to afford this music box! It's not only a beautiful sounding box but a beautiful piece of "furniture"! Thanks for sharing your music with us.
I don't really like how everyone is stating that Freddy's song plays in the second cylinder. It's just Toreador March, guys. EDIT 12/21/2020 because I keep getting replies on this post despite it being 5 years old (this is a comment I made 6 months ago in this very comment section that you could've found of you looked): I am a FNaF fan. I joined it not that long after Mark made his playthrough of the first game. I was not critiquing the FNaF fandom or trying to tear it down. I was simply stating that it made me a little upset that folks didn't know the actual name of Toreador March. Hell, I didn't know the name of Toreador March until I looked it up. That song changed a lot for me over the years and sparked my love for music boxes. I have about 18 of them now and am still collecting. Last thing I would do is judge this series for using music boxes lmao there is no need to get defensive or anything. Yes I have a Bendy profile pic. I drew it myself actually! Bendy got me into swing and made me appreciate the older cartoons just as FNaF made me love animatronics and robots and music boxes and things like them. I am not a Bendy fan trying to rip FNaF apart. Again, this is a 4 year old comment. I hope this clears some things up. Oh, and I keep seeing "Let fans be fans!!" Never once did I say "Don't be a fan!" I'm just stating Freddy's song is Toreador March because I was afraid of people claiming FNaF made Toreador March. I'm sure Grandfather Clock gets a bunch of "It's the Puppet song!!" comments too. I'm not ignorant on how we all got here. Calm down.
Music boxes always make me so giddy, I'm going to a new school next year and my brother had to do a project where he made a music box once. I aspire to be at your level someday!
it's incredible that music was only played through this kind of thing for years and years! even when records were invented, it was just essentially a very advanced version of music boxes! also, hard to believe that every human on earth could die and electricity could shut down completely and these kinds of things would still work perfectly! it's amazing to think about.
An amazing instrument made even more so when you think about what it took to make it. Many men and women with a shared vision over centuries to create the requisite skills, tools, mechanisms and music. All of this interspersed with peace, freedom and prosperity to allow the creativity that can not be found in times of desperation, war and famine. Amazing and beautiful.
You will probably not see this model for free as it sells for $10,000 brand new. YOu have most likely seen the "trinket music boxes" that are common at rummage sales.
I'm trying to make a small, simple music box for a school project. I'm a little lost, can you please do a video on how someone can make their own music box? I would absolutely love that. Thank you :)
Wow! what a beautiful music box. Just as beautiful as the larger one which has 2 key combs. A longer and larger sized cylinder, that plays 4 songs on each cylinder, and all the start, stop, repeat switches are the same as this one. It's simply a beautiful box like this one here, but larger.
I have a little music box on my bedside table, it’s one that you have to actively wind and I love looking at and understanding how the mechanisms work, but a box on this scale and of this quality, I can just imagine how amazing it would be! I bet you feel quite proud to possess a music box this beautiful!
Benson Gobel THE 4 72 note music boxes tend to go for the thousands of dollars. I’ve seen prices ranging from 3,000 to 7,500. I also want to start a collection, so I should probably start saving now because they’re not getting any cheaper 😂
@@anukay7854 You can get some antique Swiss cylinder boxes from the 19th century for less than that, even in fairly nice playing condition, depending upon how fancy or rare of a box you get (what type it is). I am not putting down Reuge since they make high quality instruments indeed, but a lot of these old boxes need good homes and it sounds like you're on a budget. So for me that would be the way to go. You can save up for a new Reuge afterwards ;)
Thank you so much for sharing this work of heART! My father bought my mother one years ago; 1 cylinder, plays 2 songs. I hope to enjoy it long after they both pass & fondly remember their love! Oh! How he cherished her! ❤😍💞
How beautiful this instrument is, I have had the pleasure of seeing many of these wonderful things here in Australia all original Swiss and German models including Reginas ,Polyphons Automatic changers and Reproducing Pianos when I was involved with collectors of mechanical music but I've since retired however many many thanks for the wonderful video. Jim from Australia.
Roll 1=Swan Lake Mel.3 Dance of the flowers. - Piotr Tjajkoffsky. 4. Carmen: Toredor. - Rossini; 5. Rigoletto: La Donna è mobile. / Ach wie so trügerisch sind Weiberherzen / Comme la plume en vent / Ack som ett fjun så lätt / 女心の歌. 6.?
Ah! Wonderful melodies! Pleasant and enjoyable! Some antique wall clocks and bracket clocks played tune on built in music-box mechanisms like this just before or soon after striking the hours on small cup shaped bell or thick and hard coiled wire chime (gong). Nowadays these types of music-boxes and chiming clocks are electronically imitated by some quartz clocks because they contains circuit board of electronically recorded and programmed sound chips connected to speaker. But they can't beat the real chimes and music-boxes like this.
I have a similar one to this with the same movement. Mine is the La Dolci Vita made by Reuge with a beautiful burr walnut cabinet. I bought it when I retired over twenty years ago and I play it regularly. It's a joy to listen to and hopefully my family will continue to enjoy it when I'm gone.
I bet the kids who watched that play the songs understood how sound and different notes were formed better than kids who just heard music through a speaker and that it's just magic how sound comes out of it.
Thank you for the kind message and yes, I sell a lot of music boxes and automatons. You should visit my website: www.singingbirdbox.com. Kind regards, Troy Duncan
I hope one day i will ever have one of these amazing music boxes to enjoy. Absolutely magnificent piece of sheer beauty from a time when music was tuned correctly to 432 Hz.
would it be possible to manufacture custom cylinders for it with the newest technology like cnc or 3d metal printing? I mean custom songs or if some of the original get damaged. wonderful piece BTW!! when was it made?
Reuge continues to craft music boxes and today they would use CNC machines; the antique music boxes were all musically arranged and crafted by hand - pretty amazing when you think about it. This piece is not that old - maybe 1970s or so.
@@therealsourc3 Today, they use CNC machines. Prior to computers, they would have made a jig crafted by hand. Going way back, each pin was arranged entirely by hand.
Your dedication and exicution in restoration..is magnificent...thank you for the post...I am a amature collector.. my favorite piece.. is a garage sale Barbie theme piece of ..all things. Over the waves. Thanks.. Monty.
After watching this video I decided to look up music boxes from this company Reuge. And 19k to 21k is actually not far off. They have a fancy box similiar to this one going for just under 7k. But it is not nearly as complex. There must be a small but dedicated collectors market for these things.
You don't even need to win the lottery to collect music boxes. If you are middle class you can still build a nice collection of a half dozen or a dozen boxes at several hundred bucks each. The market is way down at the moment which is sad for folks trying to use these musical instruments as investment items BUT which is great for beginning collectors who might have found it hard to afford more than one or two nice music boxes at the height of the market (like in the mid 1990s when the prices were stratospheric).
The antique clock market is in a similar state and the antique (player) piano, reed organ, pipe organ markets are worse (however orchestrions and fairground organs etc seem to have maintained a good amount of monetary value, as have the fancier and rarer musical boxes). So for folks genuinely interested in these instruments who want to have one or more for pure enjoyment at home, it's a real buyer's market and now's the time to get one to enjoy (while they are still extant to get).
That's amazing. How do pins from the first song not interfere with the notes of the second song? Especially since the drum is shifting? Wow, my brain just fell out.
How a cylinder music box works is the cylinder pins are arranged in such a manner where each musical arrangement (song) only strikes the comb teeth when a specific song is playing. What is truly amazing are the antique music boxes (I have many videos of such). That is because a master arranger would need to arrange the thousands of cylinder pins perfectly on the cylinder to create the song and also be spaced perfectly. Today, CNC machines are used so the human element is largely absent.
Can happen sometimes if it runs out of wind and then the metal spring loosens causing it to play a little bit more, sometimes hours after. Not a ghost tho 😂😂😂
As a classical musician, if I was rich I would love to have one of these in my living room. I do not have the ability of site, but based on the way this sounds online I can hardly imagine how it would sound up close. I have always had a liking for mechanical things like music boxes and clocks, but never have I heard something so melodious in my lifetime.
if i was rich i would buy a lot of cocaine
@@itainteasywhenitshard7087 i am truly inspired by your priorities
Cocaine Is A Hell of A Drug @@itainteasywhenitshard7087
@@itainteasywhenitshard7087 mans got his priorities straight
They're expensive?
1:34 this sound will always give me goosebumps. This will always be beautiful.
What is the name? 😭
@@PowerfulChamy Once Upon a Dream
A lot of older music boxes play it judging by how many videos I’ve found.
@@PowerfulChamy
It’s the waltz from Sleeping Beauty. Composer is Tchaikovsky who also wrote The Nutcracker.
All cylinders sound the same. I am not so excited.
beautiful music, hard to believe these were the source of music for over a century till radio surpassed it
Zeikou thats exactly what I said, unless the music was played live these boxes were what was used to play music on demand, till the advent of radio.
You are entirely correct. Cylinder music boxes were first around 1800 and then disc based music boxes were invented in the later 1800s which allowed new songs to be played on a music box machine - similar to a vinyl record. Mechanical music machines using paper sheets or wooden cobs were also available (player pianos, roller organs, etc.). Then gramophones came along and finally record players that played 78 rpm records. Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
I looked online to buy this music box, but couldn't find it anywhere. Is there any place I could get it? Where did you get it?
Please visit my website which is listed on the video description.
Singing bird boxes can you make a greensleeves music box cause I ordered one
The first cylinder played some of my favorite songs and I almost cried. I've always loved music boxes and now I aspire to one day have one this magnificent!
"i literally cried tears of absolute joy while listening to this. I felt like a fairy tale princess being swept into a dream waltz the entire time. This sounds so amazing! I was not expecting that complexity. I would love to have one of these! So incredibly lovely!
This nearly made me return to a previous life in the country when nothing much happened and these magical boxes were gateways to fantastic worlds of imagination. Times when you really stop and let music take you to places.
VR offers "Great Escapes" these days. Cherrs!!
The box itself has been beautifully restored. I would really like to see the marquetry shown a bit closer so I could fully appreciate the craftsmanship that went into achieving this beautiful detail. I loved how beautiful the music sounded as it played ! Thanks for this wonderful video.
Beautiful piece of machinery. When I was young, one of my great aunts left a Regina music box with us for several year, with a number of the metal "records". Unique sounding music, and mesmerizing to watch.
Reuge are one of the last high-quality Swiss makers of new cylinder musical boxes.
Thank you for sharing this nice interchangeable box with us!
What a beautiful piece! I was previously unaware that such complex music boxes existed. I'd love to see the inner workings of one.
Thank you for your content.
Can I ask if you are circumcised?
No you wouldn't!
I have never seen or heard a music box like this. This thing sounds amazing!! Sounds way more complex than the standard one drum music boxes!
I’ll admit there are some small ones today that actually sound quite beautiful to me. One might probably say I’ve collected music boxes since before I could even say “music box”! In other words, I’ve pretty much owned alt least one since I was born. First it was this yellow puppy with blue ears that sat in a doghouse, as well as a miniature grandfather clock and my musical mobile that featured “flying” plush clown dolls in little hanging hoops. However, my first ever “serious” or fancy music box was given to me right about when I was a schoolboy at 7 years old or so. It was a small light brown jewelry box with a dark red velvety interior that you could insert your own pictures into. We chose to put in a photo of me sitting on my bed surrounded by my stuffed toys, and that childhood photo is still framed in it to this day. Shortly after that one, I started collecting musical snowglobes and glitter globes along with some porcelain or ceramic things with music boxes inside. I think I’ll just list some of my most favorite ones I’ve had here:
A snowman that opens up to reveal a scene of ice skaters (plays Frosty the Snowman)
A nutcracker automaton with a drum (plays The Little Drummer Boy)
Santa with a ton of toys in his sleigh which has 2 beautiful reindeer hitched to the front (plays Here Comes Santa Claus, although the musical movement is kind of worn out so some notes don’t resonate like they should.)
A dark brown box with a glass lid. When you open it there’s a tiny little winter scene with a train that turns. (plays We Wish You a Merry Christmas)
Yet another one with a train- this one’s a red box designed to look like a matchbox. (plays Jingle Bells). This one is part of a series called Matchbox Melodies, hence the matchbox-like design.
And those are just some of the Christmas ones I have. There are many more!
How in the world can they make such a thing, so precise to get the pins to align and play, incredible.
Old schools midi
Lol yup
True
But gold
No electric or batteries needed , THAT is the beauty of these.
This and piano rolls, yeah. Piano rolls are obviously less limited in how long a song they can play, but instruments like these were absolutely in the minds of the engineers that drafted the MIDI spec.
Amazing! I remembered when I was a kid playing a simple music box when going to sleep. Classics are awesome.
That's awesome! I love how you can actually see the notes, especially the ones that rise in sequence left to right.
Это просто потрясающе...3 мелодии на каждом валике....Произведение искусства.
Ineffable…hauntingly beautiful!!! The arrangements are a wonder!!!
That is the most lovely music box with cylinders that I have ever seen:)! It is an awesome source for nostalgia and classic musical pieces:) Awesome, video:)!
Is the cylinder slightly shifting to the right or left to play different songs? I don't notice movement until the end when it seems to 'reset' its position. I think that is how it works.. wow imagine doing the cylinders...crafting them that is.
Both. The cylinder moves ever so slightly (less than 1 mm) to the right allowing a different set of cylinder pins to strike the comb. After all of the pins have been played, the cylinder snaps back to the left allowing the first set of pins to play once again. This is how all cylinder music boxes work - some antique examples play 12 or 16 songs. Antique music boxes were crafted entirely by hand and each pin was manually placed. Today, CNC machines are used so the process is much less manually intensive. Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
Singing bird boxes ohhh wow i didnt know thats how it worked
I noticed the same thing, and my conclusion is that the three songs are lined up after each other in a spiral way. So, while playing, the cylinder gradually shifts, not in steps, but continuously, and then at the end it snaps back into the initial position again. So between the "metal notes" (that vibrate) there is a distance which will fit three spiraling turns. It seems to be not so much space as that, but if you would look at the tip of each vibrating metal piece, you would see that it is pointed, so between the pointed ends of two adjacent metal pieces, there is this full distance of three spiraling turns. It is a bit difficult to explain this for me, partly because English is not my native language.
Hii
I used to have a music box as a child. It seemed so magical
They definitely are.
You should visit my Reuge music box website. www.reugemusicboxusa.com
Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
Magic boxes. My favorite "things" in the world.
You are so lucky to be able to afford this music box! It's not only a beautiful sounding box but a beautiful piece of "furniture"! Thanks for sharing your music with us.
I also sell a lot of Reuge music boxes - the number seller in the USA.
I don't really like how everyone is stating that Freddy's song plays in the second cylinder. It's just Toreador March, guys.
EDIT 12/21/2020 because I keep getting replies on this post despite it being 5 years old (this is a comment I made 6 months ago in this very comment section that you could've found of you looked):
I am a FNaF fan. I joined it not that long after Mark made his playthrough of the first game. I was not critiquing the FNaF fandom or trying to tear it down. I was simply stating that it made me a little upset that folks didn't know the actual name of Toreador March. Hell, I didn't know the name of Toreador March until I looked it up. That song changed a lot for me over the years and sparked my love for music boxes. I have about 18 of them now and am still collecting. Last thing I would do is judge this series for using music boxes lmao there is no need to get defensive or anything.
Yes I have a Bendy profile pic. I drew it myself actually! Bendy got me into swing and made me appreciate the older cartoons just as FNaF made me love animatronics and robots and music boxes and things like them. I am not a Bendy fan trying to rip FNaF apart. Again, this is a 4 year old comment. I hope this clears some things up.
Oh, and I keep seeing "Let fans be fans!!" Never once did I say "Don't be a fan!" I'm just stating Freddy's song is Toreador March because I was afraid of people claiming FNaF made Toreador March. I'm sure Grandfather Clock gets a bunch of "It's the Puppet song!!" comments too. I'm not ignorant on how we all got here. Calm down.
Someone had to say it
can't you let fans be fans?
Saturn Star that's so true!!
Saturn Star the 9th song is halo theme duuuuh
Saturn Star my music teacher played that on the piano and I've been looking for months thank you I love that song
Whoever made this music box is a genius.
This is when they really made things back in the day. Old school workmanship.
Music boxes always make me so giddy, I'm going to a new school next year and my brother had to do a project where he made a music box once. I aspire to be at your level someday!
it's incredible that music was only played through this kind of thing for years and years! even when records were invented, it was just essentially a very advanced version of music boxes! also, hard to believe that every human on earth could die and electricity could shut down completely and these kinds of things would still work perfectly! it's amazing to think about.
An amazing instrument made even more so when you think about what it took to make it. Many men and women with a shared vision over centuries to create the requisite skills, tools, mechanisms and music. All of this interspersed with peace, freedom and prosperity to allow the creativity that can not be found in times of desperation, war and famine. Amazing and beautiful.
That's a poetic way of words you've got there, my friend.
Beautifully engineered, reminds me of old maritime instruments. It's certainly a lovely item!!
i am so addicted to watch every single video you take. How amazing for those music box and vintage stuff your have. thanks for sharing
This old machine has better song than the entire last decade.
cant believe how great shape it is in. it looks and sounds brand new. really beautiful.
It would be interesting to hear more about how you restore these magical music boxes. Thanks for sharing!
I love music boxes! I kept few of my dear Mother's when she departed in the '70's ♡♡♡
I love these! I always stop to rip the music box out whenever I see an old jewelry box for free or whatever
You will probably not see this model for free as it sells for $10,000 brand new. YOu have most likely seen the "trinket music boxes" that are common at rummage sales.
@@troyduncan1969 yea they are always fixed melody
@@rajgill7576 no shit
Incredible mashinery! Clockworks are such an elequent and complex art
I'm trying to make a small, simple music box for a school project. I'm a little lost, can you please do a video on how someone can make their own music box? I would absolutely love that. Thank you :)
Dia Sam kikkerland has one DIY music box, it comes with the mechanism but you can choose the songs
Ilse López thankyou:)
Same, I want the smallest box possible though. And it needs to play once upon a december
Wow! what a beautiful music box. Just as beautiful as the larger one which has 2 key combs. A longer and larger sized cylinder,
that plays 4 songs on each cylinder, and all the start, stop, repeat switches are the same as this one. It's simply a beautiful box
like this one here, but larger.
I collect music boxes and this is a truly interesting design! Such a wide range of notes being played at once!
A fine example of engineering, what a lovely music box. I bet it is worth THOUSANDS of pounds!
Music... Its the most beautyful art... Young or old... Would you not agree?
89BlackGatomon I totally agree!❤️
True
Glad he showed us how to change the cylinder, we need to know that when we get one.
What an amazing piece of kit there!!! I enjoy anything mechanical
I have a little music box on my bedside table, it’s one that you have to actively wind and I love looking at and understanding how the mechanisms work, but a box on this scale and of this quality, I can just imagine how amazing it would be! I bet you feel quite proud to possess a music box this beautiful!
The way you've filmed it really shows the movement of each tooth on the comb. Thanks for posting!
i come back to this video every once in a while
its nice
5:32 whats the name of this song?
Feels like I'm being hypnotized by his voice.
I was like WOW this is so cool!!! I would like one!
...then i saw the prices
how much cuz ill save money i really want to start a collection
Benson Gobel THE 4 72 note music boxes tend to go for the thousands of dollars. I’ve seen prices ranging from 3,000 to 7,500. I also want to start a collection, so I should probably start saving now because they’re not getting any cheaper 😂
@@anukay7854 You can get some antique Swiss cylinder boxes from the 19th century for less than that, even in fairly nice playing condition, depending upon how fancy or rare of a box you get (what type it is). I am not putting down Reuge since they make high quality instruments indeed, but a lot of these old boxes need good homes and it sounds like you're on a budget. So for me that would be the way to go. You can save up for a new Reuge afterwards ;)
Thank you so much for sharing this work of heART!
My father bought my mother one years ago; 1 cylinder, plays 2 songs. I hope to enjoy it long after they both pass & fondly remember their love! Oh! How he cherished her! ❤😍💞
sir i'm in love with your music box it is so nice. thank you very much to share this video
How beautiful this instrument is, I have had the pleasure of seeing many of these wonderful things here in Australia all original Swiss and German models including Reginas ,Polyphons Automatic changers and Reproducing Pianos when I was involved with collectors of mechanical music but I've since retired however many many thanks for the wonderful video. Jim from Australia.
Roll 1=Swan Lake Mel.3 Dance of the flowers. - Piotr Tjajkoffsky. 4. Carmen: Toredor. - Rossini; 5. Rigoletto: La Donna è mobile. / Ach wie so trügerisch sind Weiberherzen / Comme la plume en vent / Ack som ett fjun så lätt / 女心の歌. 6.?
the first song is Sleeping Beauty For Piano 4 Hands (Rachmaninov's Arr.) - Tchaikovsky
but just the original of tchaikovsky
Roland von Malmborg ...
The first song is from sleeping beauty, second is the March from act 1 of nutcracker, third is waltz of the flowers from act 2 of nutcracker
Also "Carmen" was written by Bizet not Rossini. Thanks otherwise for the list of the names of the pieces!
Which song is at 2:11
I cannot stop watching these videos! I have always been obsessed with music boxes, and these just take my breath away!!
Jesus how rich are you?
richer than me of course
Well he's wearing a Rolex
+GenericUA-camr69 Glad I'm not the only one who noticed! The band looked familiar, but I was unsure as I'd not glimpsed the face.
The Restoration of Dr Who I AM THE DOCTOR 1963-2010
The Restoration of Dr Who as rich as Jesus apparently
THESE ARE WONDERFUL! NEVER SEEN ANYTHING THIS PROFESSIONAL AND OUTSTANDING!
how do they produce those cylinders? those pins are so incredibly intricate
Machine printing
Ah! Wonderful melodies! Pleasant and enjoyable! Some antique wall clocks and bracket clocks played tune on built in music-box mechanisms like this just before or soon after striking the hours on small cup shaped bell or thick and hard coiled wire chime (gong). Nowadays these types of music-boxes and chiming clocks are electronically imitated by some quartz clocks because they contains circuit board of electronically recorded and programmed sound chips connected to speaker. But they can't beat the real chimes and music-boxes like this.
Only kids from 1750 will remember.
They will come as a ghost to remember it.
INCREDIBLY beautiful! A TRUE work of art! Amazing craftmanship and ingenuity!
You should visit my Reuge music box website. www.reugemusicboxusa.com
Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
Singing bird boxes ok, will do! Keep up the good work! Merry Christmas!
Just a fact, Toredor march is not from fucking five nights at Freddy's
Dubb Thank you, finally a person who knows music.
No i know its not from fnaf the song is only used for the freddy fazbear character who thinks its a fnaf original song is dumb
Exactly
Pretty sure you’re not actually fucking with Freddy for five nights in that game
I have a similar one to this with the same movement.
Mine is the La Dolci Vita made by Reuge with a beautiful burr walnut cabinet. I bought it when I retired over twenty years ago and I play it regularly. It's a joy to listen to and hopefully my family will continue to enjoy it when I'm gone.
I bet the kids who watched that play the songs understood how sound and different notes were formed better than kids who just heard music through a speaker and that it's just magic how sound comes out of it.
jaky3 too bad they grew up and now they are grandpa's
lol
jaky3 I dont think kids usually know physics regardless of what age they were born...
jaky3 you have obviously never used a computer DAW like the kids do to make beats.
I'm speakers are vibrations and so is each piece of metal getting struck
Torreador gave me flash backs
I'm more amazed on how it can play three songs on a single cylinder when it doesn't even change it!
Sounds very beautiful, and I find it fascinating that each cylinder is able to fit 3 tunes into one
Amazing... So small but damn... Impressiv! The Maintenance must be the horror... Thanks for this video ;D
That first cylinder has 3 epic songs back to back, would love to hear the others. That first song is my all time fav
Excuse me do you sell these wonderful music boxes?
Thank you for the kind message and yes, I sell a lot of music boxes and automatons. You should visit my website: www.singingbirdbox.com.
Kind regards, Troy Duncan
Singing bird boxes Amazingly!
Singing bird boxes could you remind me the name of the third song?
Singing bird boxes
@@troyduncan1969 I saw on eBay!
I hope one day i will ever have one of these amazing music boxes to enjoy. Absolutely magnificent piece of sheer beauty from a time when music was tuned correctly to 432 Hz.
This is amazing.
I think someone should put a small music box in a time capsule. How wonderful would it be to hear this in 1000 or even 3000 years from now. :)
You should visit my Reuge music box website. www.reugemusicboxusa.com
Kind regards, Troy Duncan. www.reugemusicboxusa.com
This is Synthesia but ancient.
4:23 Oh my goodness, is that the song of Count-Duke Frederick Fitzgerald Fazbearington the III?
would it be possible to manufacture custom cylinders for it with the newest technology like cnc or 3d metal printing? I mean custom songs or if some of the original get damaged. wonderful piece BTW!! when was it made?
Reuge continues to craft music boxes and today they would use CNC machines; the antique music boxes were all musically arranged and crafted by hand - pretty amazing when you think about it. This piece is not that old - maybe 1970s or so.
@@troyduncan1969 but how do they attach the small pins to the cylinder with surgical precision?
@@therealsourc3 Today, they use CNC machines. Prior to computers, they would have made a jig crafted by hand. Going way back, each pin was arranged entirely by hand.
@@troyduncan1969 Man, that's dedication! I get nervous by the thought of hand assemble those small pins to the wheel..
Thank you for sharing this lovely device with the world! Simpler times.
is so intricate and fancy, i love it
Truly amazing what humans are capable of creating
"I'm gonna slide this forward"
*picks it up to move it forward*
凄い！
こんな素敵なオルゴールがこの世の中にあるなんて‼️
良いものを見せていただきました ♪
Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn and then always be a unicorn :)
4:34 *experiences power outage.
* music continues playing...*
I ain’t ready for Freddy.
They didn't HAVE "power" to GO out!
@@thomasmartinscott r/woosh
@@thomasmartinscottr/woosh
Your dedication and exicution in restoration..is magnificent...thank you for the post...I am a amature collector.. my favorite piece.. is a garage sale Barbie theme piece of ..all things. Over the waves. Thanks.. Monty.
Thank you for the kind message.
You should visit my Reuge music box website. www.reugemusicboxusa.com
Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
this music box is high price Maybe between 19.000 until 21.000 dollar
wow maybe i will buy it in future
Noi9er $19 to $21 isn't that bad or do you mean $19,000 to $21,000. Please learn how numbers and the English language work.
The Bread Man was this comment necessary?
homogentisinsaeure was yours or mine or ours as a collective? I SAY YES 👍!
In Europe they use ',' as the decimal point and '.' as the thousands separator. It's not what we in the USA expect to see, but it is not "wrong".
After watching this video I decided to look up music boxes from this company Reuge. And 19k to 21k is actually not far off. They have a fancy box similiar to this one going for just under 7k. But it is not nearly as complex. There must be a small but dedicated collectors market for these things.
I bought one like this for my best friend and for my mom, they loved it!
когда игру на расческе доводят до максимализма)
на расческе не так играют. От слова совсем.
Thank you. Fantastic upload! Would love to hear the other cylinders someday. 🎶 💯
You should visit my Reuge music box website. www.reugemusicboxusa.com
Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
what is the name of 4:22 min song
Oyon Hossen its called Toreador march
*i expected a kid commenting "Freddys theme"*
Freddy's theme
Lol
Oyon Hossen how do you not know this song?
I had a few old school ones as a kid love these
If I won the lottery, I would not collect cars or jewelry, I would collect music boxes and dolls, dress in vintage clothing and pretend to be a ghost.
no you wouldnt
Love it! Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn and then always be a unicorn :)
That's childish
You don't even need to win the lottery to collect music boxes. If you are middle class you can still build a nice collection of a half dozen or a dozen boxes at several hundred bucks each. The market is way down at the moment which is sad for folks trying to use these musical instruments as investment items BUT which is great for beginning collectors who might have found it hard to afford more than one or two nice music boxes at the height of the market (like in the mid 1990s when the prices were stratospheric).
The antique clock market is in a similar state and the antique (player) piano, reed organ, pipe organ markets are worse (however orchestrions and fairground organs etc seem to have maintained a good amount of monetary value, as have the fancier and rarer musical boxes). So for folks genuinely interested in these instruments who want to have one or more for pure enjoyment at home, it's a real buyer's market and now's the time to get one to enjoy (while they are still extant to get).
Its amazing that it has so many songs with the same comb
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. How old is the design for this specific music box?
475 BC but if you believe that Alticatus is the original inventor the it would be 385 BC
This is probably a late 20th century music box
Beautifull music box, TYVM for sharing this vvonderfull device for creating music before the advent of the phonograph .
You should visit my Reuge music box website. www.reugemusicboxusa.com
Kind regards, Troy Duncan.
That's amazing. How do pins from the first song not interfere with the notes of the second song? Especially since the drum is shifting? Wow, my brain just fell out.
How a cylinder music box works is the cylinder pins are arranged in such a manner where each musical arrangement (song) only strikes the comb teeth when a specific song is playing. What is truly amazing are the antique music boxes (I have many videos of such). That is because a master arranger would need to arrange the thousands of cylinder pins perfectly on the cylinder to create the song and also be spaced perfectly. Today, CNC machines are used so the human element is largely absent.
Get yh ju y7y7
The music box is beautiful and so is the music
4:24 try to play at 0.5x speed 😨😨
I have one of these that has only one cylinder, but a beautiful maple box. We bought it at the Factory store on a trip to Europe in 1971.
Imagine if it starts playing by itself at night 😨
Can happen sometimes if it runs out of wind and then the metal spring loosens causing it to play a little bit more, sometimes hours after. Not a ghost tho 😂😂😂
The Legend27 mine wind up snow globe did that once. I took out the key so it wouldn’t do it anymore lol
Nè chơi đàn ban đêm không sợ à! Tường cách âm trong phòng kính khỏi làm phiền hàng xóm nha ae.
Oh, how wonderful! Thank you for demonstrating!
You are welcome.
@@troyduncan1969 : I’m baaaack! Love these music boxes! Thanks for demonstrating.
When the powers out
T E R M I N A L 7 lol
T E R M I N A L 7 lol. I do this too often!
Lol
I am a simple man, so basically I'll just be neutral in this. Yes I like Fnaf, yes I like music. But can't we just enjoy this?
Mechanic music is beyond magical to me ❤️💗💗💗 so pure,,