Regina "Musical Automaton" Music Box
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2019
- Something different for all of you! This is a music box of unusual design from the turn of the century, and I have never seen anything like it before! It uses a large metal disk to pluck a comb produce sound, which is a bit different from the traditional music boxes. This was found at Bill Kap's Piano in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Great tour of such beautiful machines thanks
My parents had a smaller one that played a disc that size only it played them flat like a record. They also had a large one like this about 8 foot tall that was made in Belgium. It had a beautiful painting on the front of Belgium people in their peasant costumes. It didn't have the disc, but a barrel shaped one like a music box, and also had a flat drum that played with the barrel, with mallet type drumsticks that would hit every once in awhile with the music. Also have seen ones with a violin in it that had a wheel that played the strings.
Please play the big Regina changer sitting next to this single comb floor model which are probably rarer as the bigger machines had double combs.
David Nestander
Galesburg Illinois
June 8 2021
Reminds me a bit of the Porter Music Box.
Really cool. Thanks, James! This video helps me appreciate some of the ‘sister music boxes’ of the antique Regina I have in my living room. 🙂
You are so lucky to have one of these treasures.
Most interesting James, in the UK those machines are known as Polyphons ! i have seen one with discs perhaps three or four times larger, providing a longer play time, and as the case was much larger it housed a much larger comb, enabling a deeper richer tone. certainly have never seen an automatic disc selection within this type of machine, who knew they had invented the "Jukebox" all that time ago ? i would rather imagine the disc to be steel, copper being too soft to keep the pins in position, and the decorative panel on the front is called Fretwork after the very fine Fret saw used to cut it all out, must have taken days or more ?
Well, you have done it again James, Another day another Vlog, the only thing missing was a disc for the machine which had a piece of Bach upon it. (that would have been very ThePianoForever)
Very best wishes to you, kindest regards Simon.
Great video, JPS. That restored Regina is a great example of early 1900's "clockwork" automation. Thank-you for sharing.
It was fun to fine this one for sure.
James:
A rare Regina indeed yet despite having complete size discs collection for decades, I never found that oddly named Regina as an "automon". It does not have the resonance of the double comb Reginas since it appears to be a single comb model. I think most people in the music box field are familiar with the science of the metal (zinc or steel) disc projections used on all Regina discs. Stella may not have had discs with projections. Perhaps a reader can confirm this idea
David Nestander
Galesburg, Illinois
Dec. 22, 2020
Melody start: 5:26 March. Regina 52 or 68cm diameter. Regina was founded in the US by European Polyphon, and the disc sizes up to, and including 40cm= 15½" are interchangeable. Produced mainly 1895 - 1910. There were almost a thousand melodies for sale for this size. Bur Regina produced 5 other disc diameters, that could not be played on this instrument. Although this disc music box epoch only lasted around 20 years, at least 350 different disc formats were produced, each one only fitting one out of 350 music boxes. The music box builders came from the clock-builders, used to serving clocks that were 200- 300 years old. Time quality was their craftman honour. Thus this was one of the last products, in the World, that was constructed to function five hundred to a thosand years! In the coming centuries, the only recorded music that can be played as it originally sounded, will be the music boxes.
Love it...I need one!
The musical box is well restored apart from the sound. It needs setting up properly and will then sound much better.
Really neat machine! Thanks buddy!!!
Enjoyed the video I have a table top music box using the same disks with a double comb sound bar. These are great examples of the late 19th century entertainment sources. You should have more subscribers.
Awesomely cool and unique ! Thanks bro!
So glad you liked the video, these are very rare.
Those were the jukeboxes of the Victorian age. I'd like to see the device that punched the holes in the disks. It's a concept similar to paper piano rolls for player pianos except they work with vacuum and were punched as you played the song on the master piano. If you made a mistake, you started over with a fresh roll. In the case of the metal disks, there were no recorders, so how did they do it? Nice to have met you and your dad yesterday at Gregg's Music James. Keep an inquisitive mind and good luck.
I've never seen that. Wonderful!! Thank you always nice video. From Japan
And then they made vacuum cleaners, no, really.
So basically an early version, using different technology, of a phonograph. I wonder if they had the equivalent of "record stores" where you could go and peruse a collection of disks and buy the songs you liked. And I agree with Danish Humair - you are so knowledgeable and talented, and your channel is so interesting, that it's really quite surprising that you don't have 10 times the number of subscribers.
I think my subscribers are 10x better. Thank you for the wonderful comments.
Oh, James, if you are in Southern California and are able to schedule a tour of the Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar, CA, you above anyone I know of, would just appreciate their collection of automated musical nickleodeons second to none, at least in California. Their tours are free. I've pasted a link to their website. You would be best to visit when the curator of the museum is there as he repairs, plays and plays their fantastic old theatre organ as well as keeping all this machines in working order. You'd appreciate this museum so much and if the curator ever retires, you are the only one who has the enthusiasm and musical brilliance and appreciation to how they are made, to want to learn how to keep them running or has the contacts you have for repair-work. Should you ever decide to stay in one location, that is -- I can't imagine the museum's curator would not find meeting you as fascinating as you'd find him and the whole experience.
Note that they are closed until sometime in mid May, 2019, for maintenance for tours of parts of the museum. There are other parts of the museum open, however.
www.nethercuttcollection.org/Home.aspx
And if any live within travel time who love this channel, you'd also find this museum well-worth your time to visit. The tours up till now are free but you have to have a reservation to go on the tour. One could go again and again and not always see the same things as they maintain their collection and some items such as their antique classic car collection, are being maintained and so some will not be on display due to maintenance and they will rotate certain cars on display from their warehouse. Anytime there are competitions for restored vehicles, they take trophies like no other organization. In comparison to the Petersen Museum also in SoCal, they don't do specialty cars like from the movies, so if you are a Batman fan, you'd want to see the Petersen museum but nothing there in particular for a musician and musical instrument historian to see you'd find as interesting, James, as the Nethercutt. I think you'd find yourself in musician's heaven to visit the Nethercutt Collection.
Fascinating!
5:26 which tune and disc number?
How you upload every single day but still have only 12K subs is beyond me. You work really hard and are extremely underrated. I hope you get the attention you deserve soon!
I really enjoy uploading on RUclips, if someday my channel gets bigger that would be great as well.
@@ThePianoforever quality over quantity. You're channel is one of RUclips's best kept "secrets".
hi there mate how are u ok mate keep up there good work on here mate am beg fan
What song did this play
The ingenuity!
Made to last the test of time.
Please, more from Kap Piano. He had many kewl mechanical instruments. zmy fave was the Violina Vertuoso Nickelodeon.
One of the coolest places around for sure. In the next several weeks I will be uploading many more videos from there. The one you spoke of will go up on the 25th.
very cool.
Thank you.