David Roentgen's Automaton of Queen Marie Antoinette, The Dulcimer Player (La Joueuse de Tympanon)
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Watch this surprising video of an automaton play the dulcimer.
David Roentgen (1743--1807) took his royal patron by surprise when he delivered this beautiful automaton to King Louis XVI for his queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1784. The cabinetry for this piece is very much a neoclassical masterwork, and the mechanism behind it is truly extraordinary: the figure strikes the strings in perfect rhythm with two small metal hammers held in her hands, which move with great precision.
This object is from Musée des arts et métiers de Paris and is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens:
View the full video here: www.cerimes.fr/...
Footage courtesy of CERIMES.
That's so spooky at the beginning, looks like a possesed doll from some horror movie. Apart from this it's truly amazing for that time, I had no idea they had things like this back then
Oh boy, the amount of stuff they had back then that we just ignore...
Now, this is really cool. But I would hate to see her turn towards me when she was never wound up in the first place.
Her eyes move too? Wow
glassyoongi Yes, the eyes do move, since due to the mechanism is below the woman's body. As you can see it move and turns.
@@aukua5512 it's so fascinating!
glassyoongi Yes, it is. :)
For some reason, I find automatons a romantic idea. No idea why, but seeing this makes me so nostalgic.
....from a time long ago...
@@jimbuxton2187 yes, but actually not that long ago, just 229 years.
@@letsschubertiad1966 amazing....
Maybe in a past life you lived in this time :)
I am one of the French Revolution soldier in the past then, because i remember breaking into some royal room....
Amazing! Even her eyes move!
Still amazing after hundreds of years. Beautifully designed. Its marvel isn't diminished today even though we have ipads and amazing technology. Imagine how amazing it would have seemed in its time.
Unimaginable how perfect and microscopically accurate this machine has to be.
Aaah, how lovely! It's great to see her working perfectly even now
1 hour version of this needed.
Beautiful.💕 Listening to this automaton just thinking how King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette also listened to it.😌 Amazing!😊
Impressive. Even the eyes move.
Imagine, if you have this in your house and it was you who was left home because both your parents are on a vacation. Then one night, it suddenly plays...
Kleo Anjielo Ayunan If it's possessed by a spirit, yes.
😬
😂😂
LagiNaLangAko23 Yep, I love this type of music. It's amazing and beautiful, even the automaton is gorgeous. I definitely would enjoy listening to this music. :)
I would go to that room and listened to it, sounded nice ngl
This is amazing of course, I'm glad they tuned the strings finally! Another video was hard to listen to!
That is an absolutely an extraordinary beautiful work of art.......... Thank you for sharing this video with the world so we can all appreciate such beauty....
Imagine if the night at the museum happened there 😬
😂
Then the movie would've wound up being quite boring
@@simpleinverso8628 or creepy
@@simpleinverso8628 Or actually interesting.
@@INatalkaI I mean, yeah the movie would esentially turn into a slow paced documentary
Does anyone know the name of the song she’s playing? It’s such a bittersweet sounding tune.
I want one so badly
Woah, very impressive 👏
Good lord, that is amazing! And it still works!
Damn, just when I declared myself pretty good at making miniature mechanical metal marvels I see this!! I am bewitched... BRAVO 🏆
Haha make me one please
Amazing, Wonderful, Fantastic and Beautiful. Oh you get the point, I LIKED it.
Magnificent.
I know I'm going to have nightmares tonight. Great invention, but only in the daytime, when you are awake.
Yes, I know, you also didn’t search for this but youtube made you watch it, yes
Soooo amazing.
Meraviglioso 💖
What craftsmanship!
Thats really creepy. I love it! I want one ahaha
Such great puppetry
Love seeing these!
it is actually the puppet making the music or the device underneath?
Wow even the eyes move i don't know people in the 1800 capable to make this life like movement on a doll XD
1700*
1700
@@sandrinecozic7214 I'm just guessing the year, sorry if I'm wrong, thnx for the correction :)
Beautiful! Tudor is so dreamable
beautiful.
Blade Runner 1700's style!
BADBOY RYAN I suppose just like the replicants, Marie Antoinette too was “retired,” though not by Robespierre instead of Deckard
I wanted to see the full video so I clicked the ink to CERIMES. It was shut down on 31 Decembebr 2014 with no indication where the video is now.
C’est dommage.
It's beautiful 😍😢
Фантастика
Omg she looks so beutiful 😍
Lovely music
It's weird not seeing the video and the audio _quite_ match up. I think it's just cuz the editor is not a musician, and just did his/her best lining up the beat and melodies with the main mallet strikes.
So that cylinder is what controls all her moves. So if there was any documentation left behind they could write new songs for her to play.
Actually this particular Cylinder is programmed to play Mozart's famous Piano Sonatas transcribed for Hammered Dulcimer by the guy who made this instrument.
I assume she is not actually playing, but it looks so convinging.
BRAVO!
✨👁👁✨目の玉まで動いていて凄い！チェンバロですよね？
Que belleza!!!
Does that mean you can switch the "bobine" for another music?
nice
It actually sounds a bit like Mozart's Famous Forte piano so this Instrument sounds Mozartey. I guess this piece of music was written by Mozart.
She's not wearing a skirt??
She normally is, the dress hides the mechanism but they removed it to show how it works.
I'm in love...
Th8s is sucha old vid but bring the vibes of the 1800s
I bet this guys life turned upside down during the revolution
Love a ghostly doll😉
Xavier : l'hem vist amb el teu avi Josep i ens ha agradat molt. Endavant
Eerie but genius
This should be at the met again.
It's all fun and games until she winks at you
Is that the original from 1784 or is it a reproduction ???
Original
@@thekingshussar1808 Thank you😀 I appreciate your reply😀
Ohhh I want one! Lol
What song is this ❤❤❤❤
I wish she could play Chariots of Fire by Vangelis.
Decim is shook
Amazing but where are the dolls pants or the rest of the dress
I think they removed it because they want to show how the doll works.
is this nightmare fuel for anyone else?
The video and sound absolutely do not line up
I don't think this is the real audio.
Pa da I think it might be because you can here the wind up noises
is there no video where the audio is synced to the video lololol it's driving me insane!
Looks like Disneylands Animatronics
S C A R R Y📈
It's kind of a bit too crepy for me! Even her eyes move!
PLAY FREEBIRD!!!!!!!!
Where is her skirt? The embarrassment!
It's to show the movement. They replace it at the end of the video.
beauty.. but little bit creepy...
I'll give you $5.00 for it right now.
If you add like five more zeroes to it, that'll be about right! ;D
😂😂😂😂😂
That thing is creepy.
Creepy.
Quite a revealing dress, your majesty :o
They raised it to show the mechanism under
@@liljs4189 oh my