Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Museum 13.09.16
Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Museum in Rüdesheim, Germany
is a popular stop for riverboats cruising the Rhineland filled with timber-walled medieval buildings, cuckoo clock stores and beer gardens containing live oom-pah-pah bands. But it’s also home to a fantastical museum, Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Cabinet. This is the brainchild of eccentric Siegfried Wendel, whose hobby in the 1960s was to rescue and repair 19th-century “automatic musical instruments” that were being discarded as scrap metal. Today, Herr Wendel is still at work in his 70s, and his Musik-Kabinett displays 350 or so automatic musical instruments, prototype jukeboxes, hand-cranked carnival machines and monstrous pianolas, all still in working order. Several gramophones still transmit voices directly from the 19th century, as they turn wax barrels that recorded the voices of opera legends such as Enrico Caruso. The most elaborate devices are the century-old orchestrions- huge wooden artworks as large as minibuses that play all the instruments of an orchestra, including trombones and cymbals. The sound can be deafening, and the first audiences in the early 1900s apparently regarded them as either unholy creations of the devil or the Eighth Wonder of the World. But everyone marvels at the device that plays six violins in perfect harmony like an invisible chamber group.
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Early programming is what this is a prime example of. I adore these magnificent machines.
Thanks for this trip down Memory Lane!
Amazing!!
Interesting way how the banjo left hand is simulated. Buttons from below instead mechanical fingers from above.
I've wanted to see more footage of this!
@PhantomPanic
4 жыл бұрын
Check out Wintergatan Wednesdays video that was released today. 😉
I really would love to visit this museum one day, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful experience. For now, since we still have a strict mask mandate here in Germany, I'll have to wait at least another year to drive to Rüdesheim. I can't wear masks for long periods of time because of breathing issues and don't want my doctor to get in trouble with police, so I won't ask him for a medical attest. Sadly I wouldn't be able to wear one for a whole 45 minute tour. Nonetheless, I'm really grateful for your videos! :)
7:07 Brother Brothers
Wintergatan Wednesdays anyone?
@lianrobintribunal484
4 жыл бұрын
Self playing banjo Mmx
10:47
More footage and less of the old fart singing
don t wast your time , in out in 5 mins , show nothing,, go to German technical museum its wonderfull ,, the house of mechanical music is fantastic , forget this one