I can't thank you enough for sharing! I fell in love with antique music boxes as a child, got one when in Germany, and is very treasured. I did my college thesis on the antique music, not because I'm any professional, but because I love them so much, and wanted to share the compiled information with the world.
I have a very large music box collection of over 100 and I’d love to open up a museum to display them and have people enjoy them for years to come! I have some pretty rare and unusual songs in my collection.
Have you thought about sharing the digital golden music on RUclips? What joy it would bring to many, who might not, otherwise, be able to enjoy your collection.
Such kindness! I was all choked up when I saw all the verses, and in translation too. I remember learning it in German as a child from a serving-lady who was probably fed up with me singing English folk songs around the house. Although I didn't know it was great poetry it moved me and was the first time I learned the meaning of "Schadenfreude". Very grateful Annie, you are a beautiful person.
I have very little memory of my grandparents, but "Edelweiss" and the Handel have still moved me to tears. This is SO magnificent, a delicate, pure, innocent and hopefully not dying art. I have identified about 7 by names, and a few more whose melodies are familiar but whose names I don't know. But I'm keeping shtum so as not to spoil the fun!! Thank you so much, Terry. This is off to my favorites, I will listen to it again and again. xx
Spot on, Terry!! Right you are. The exquisite "Lorelei", composed by Friedrich Silcher, begins here at about 6:10 on the second steam organ. The poem is Heine's. You'll know the tale! I sent it to you on private message - no space here! - with yours truly's modest translation. Oh, this is so divine. I'm listening for the third time already. :)
This is going to be great. I have to run, this morning, so I only got the first the 3 or 4 minutes. I'll listen to it all later. So far, I spot Funiuli, funicula, and Edelweiss...Great fun, great sound.
You might be able to jog my memory here, Annie. As a little lad I was taught a song which went,(I think), "Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten, das ich so traurig bin ...". Forgive my rusty 65year-old German but I think that song was called "Die Lorelei" but anyway - the tune I knew is the same one played by the second steam organ (the red one with a lady operator inside. Am I any where near close?
Hello tingleykid, 0:00-0:59 Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky 1:00-2:40 Funiculì, Funiculà by Luigi Denza 2:41-4:46 Edelweiss by Richard Rodgers 4:47-6:15 Heidenröslein by Heinrich Werner 6:16-8:00 Loreley(i) by Friedrich Silcher 8:01-9:07 Home! Sweet Home! by Sir Henry Bishop 9:08-10:05 An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) by Johann Strauss II 10:06-11:07 -?- 11:08-12:44 Ombra mai fù from Xerxes (Serse) by Georg Friedrich Händel 12:45-14:23 Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Fantastic of you to recognise all melodies, except one, I missed 2 -Xerxes also. You must know a lot of music. I have made a computer register of nearly 15 thousand melodies on around 80 thosand music box and organette discs, whereof 3½ thousand melodies have net links to organettes and boxes on the net. Roland von Malmborg, Swedwen. e-mail: von.malmborgAtelia.com (spam protection, swap A for e-mailsymbol-a
0:00-0:59 Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky 1:00-2:40 Funiculì, Funiculà by Luigi Denza 2:41-4:46 Edelweiss by Richard Rodgers4:47 Heidenröslein = Sah ein Knab' ein Röslein stehn. - Werner6:15 Loreley = Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten. - Silcher, poem Heine.8:01 Home sweet home = Mid pleasures and palaces. - Henry Bishop9:07 Blue Danube. An der schönenen blauen Donau. Johann Strauss jr10:06 ?Handel?11:0712:45 Ave Maria. - F Schubert
i have an antique musical jewellery box, winding mechanism. it plays music when opened and stops playing when closed... when i store it for long should i store it with the key wound or unwound condition? is it ok to spray wd 40 on the machinery since mine is very old?
Spring should be kept unwound, otherwise the playing time will get gradually shorter. Very thin oil is good, but not vegetable, since it hardens. Most important is oiling especially the spindle, up and down fittings, and all over the axis. Spindle is the air propeller.
You should store a music box mostly wound down, but most importantly it should be at the end of the song, not in the middle of a song. NEVER use WD-40 on anything with small moving parts. It eventually thickens and clogs it up, and unlike oil, the residue cannot be removed by solvents. It's a terrible product. A music box should be oiled with high-quality clock oil. You can get this online, or take the music box to a clock shop.
I can't thank you enough for sharing! I fell in love with antique music boxes as a child, got one when in Germany, and is very treasured. I did my college thesis on the antique music, not because I'm any professional, but because I love them so much, and wanted to share the compiled information with the world.
I have a very large music box collection of over 100 and I’d love to open up a museum to display them and have people enjoy them for years to come! I have some pretty rare and unusual songs in my collection.
Have you thought about sharing the digital golden music on RUclips? What joy it would bring to many, who might not, otherwise, be able to enjoy your collection.
Great work! Thanks a lot for sharing these “oldies but goldies”!
Such kindness! I was all choked up when I saw all the verses, and in translation too. I remember learning it in German as a child from a serving-lady who was probably fed up with me singing English folk songs around the house. Although I didn't know it was great poetry it moved me and was the first time I learned the meaning of "Schadenfreude". Very grateful Annie, you are a beautiful person.
Gorgeous, wonderful sounds.... thank you, Terry!
I have very little memory of my grandparents, but "Edelweiss" and the Handel have still moved me to tears. This is SO magnificent, a delicate, pure, innocent and hopefully not dying art. I have identified about 7 by names, and a few more whose melodies are familiar but whose names I don't know. But I'm keeping shtum so as not to spoil the fun!! Thank you so much, Terry. This is off to my favorites, I will listen to it again and again. xx
Spot on, Terry!! Right you are. The exquisite "Lorelei", composed by Friedrich Silcher, begins here at about 6:10 on the second steam organ. The poem is Heine's. You'll know the tale! I sent it to you on private message - no space here! - with yours truly's modest translation. Oh, this is so divine. I'm listening for the third time already. :)
This is going to be great. I have to run, this morning, so I only got the first the 3 or 4 minutes. I'll listen to it all later. So far, I spot Funiuli, funicula, and Edelweiss...Great fun, great sound.
Thank you Roberta! Isn't it fun? Fancy a thing like this CD being given away by a Japanese Bank - makes me wonder what else they keep in the vaults!
so cool!!!
Welcome, Doug.
You might be able to jog my memory here, Annie. As a little lad I was taught a song which went,(I think), "Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten, das ich so traurig bin ...". Forgive my rusty 65year-old German but I think that song was called "Die Lorelei" but anyway - the tune I knew is the same one played by the second steam organ (the red one with a lady operator inside. Am I any where near close?
Hello tingleykid,
0:00-0:59 Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
1:00-2:40 Funiculì, Funiculà by Luigi Denza
2:41-4:46 Edelweiss by Richard Rodgers
4:47-6:15 Heidenröslein by Heinrich Werner
6:16-8:00 Loreley(i) by Friedrich Silcher
8:01-9:07 Home! Sweet Home! by Sir Henry Bishop
9:08-10:05 An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) by Johann Strauss II
10:06-11:07 -?-
11:08-12:44 Ombra mai fù from Xerxes (Serse) by Georg Friedrich Händel
12:45-14:23 Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Fantastic of you to recognise all melodies, except one, I missed 2 -Xerxes also. You must know a lot of music. I have made a computer register of nearly 15 thousand melodies on around 80 thosand music box and organette discs, whereof 3½ thousand melodies have net links to organettes and boxes on the net. Roland von Malmborg, Swedwen. e-mail: von.malmborgAtelia.com (spam protection, swap A for e-mailsymbol-a
0:00-0:59 Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
1:00-2:40 Funiculì, Funiculà by Luigi Denza
2:41-4:46 Edelweiss by Richard Rodgers4:47 Heidenröslein = Sah ein Knab' ein Röslein stehn. - Werner6:15 Loreley = Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten. - Silcher, poem Heine.8:01 Home sweet home = Mid pleasures and palaces. - Henry Bishop9:07 Blue Danube. An der schönenen blauen Donau. Johann Strauss jr10:06 ?Handel?11:07 12:45 Ave Maria. - F Schubert
11:07 "Largo" from G.F. Haendel...
i have an antique musical jewellery box, winding mechanism. it plays music when opened and stops playing when closed... when i store it for long should i store it with the key wound or unwound condition? is it ok to spray wd 40 on the machinery since mine is very old?
Spring should be kept unwound, otherwise the playing time will get gradually shorter. Very thin oil is good, but not vegetable, since it hardens. Most important is oiling especially the spindle, up and down fittings, and all over the axis. Spindle is the air propeller.
You should store a music box mostly wound down, but most importantly it should be at the end of the song, not in the middle of a song. NEVER use WD-40 on anything with small moving parts. It eventually thickens and clogs it up, and unlike oil, the residue cannot be removed by solvents. It's a terrible product. A music box should be oiled with high-quality clock oil. You can get this online, or take the music box to a clock shop.