Since many people obviously aren't reading the description - The William Tell overture is written in 4 distinct parts. This is part 3, entitled "Ranz des Vaches" (Call to the Cows). Part four is a "galop", and was the part used for The Lone Ranger.
@@phiddlephart7026 Sorry, I guess I meant the text that the original poster wrote, underneath the title of the video. He explains that this is part 3 of 4, but you have to click on "show more" to see that.
@@gregoryschmidt1233 oh, ok, you are right, I didn't scroll down. Thanks for that info cause I'm a sucker for click bait. Problem is as soon as I click on a utube video it starts playing & I get distracted.
@@phiddlephart7026 the disk itself says "Overture andante". If you Google "William Tell Overture andante" you get... the Call to the Cows. Thus, people in 1900 would have know what they were buying.
The crazy part is that, when this music box was made, there where still people alive who were already born when the Guglielmo Tell came out. So much human history is compressed in just two hundred years.
@@td9250 Another victim of the white man? We're waiting for you to show us the way. Give everything back to the Indians, the Aztecs, the Mayans and move home where you'll be happy.
The sound is so magical, ethereal. Not just this one but all of them. Imagine a world where this was such a treat. Maybe a Sunday night in a front parlor after dinner. In some ways a quieter world - just different sounds would be louder. But on a calm Sunday evening this would be amazing. We take music today for granted. I cannot imagine the sheer ecstasy of attending a live concert after mostly only hearing something like this. It feels special hearing it this way, to hear it as they did just before the turn of the century.
That's the fourth part of the overture...also known as "The March Of The Swiss Soldiers". This is the third part, otherwise known as "The Call to the Dairy Cows".
We still have one of these at our home in Fiji. It still works, but is in need of restoration. Our great Uncle collected various music boxes and as children we had great fun playing them.
Production of a disk like that involved some high precision engineering. And, of course, the player also was beyond what most modern people think was possible 200 years ago.
@@RonJohn63 That is true for the one pictured - it is captioned "1899 Stella music box", but my comment was "production of a disk like that", and they have been produced since the late 17th century - in the region of 230 years ago. I used to have a little cylinder music box - not in a box, but just the mechanics, and you turned a little crank handle to operate it, and I used to marvel at the precision required to make it. The reeds are plucked by little pegs, and the position and length of the pegs has to be remarkably exact for the timing of the music to be precise, and the human ear is finely tuned to differences in cadence. But my real fascination is with the state of engineering at a time when most modern people suppose the that people of that time were primitive, and they are so incredulous about the construction of the pyramids and Stonehenge that the only explanation is "aliens". When the Antikythera mechanism was decoded, it revealed a degree of mechanical sophistication that had not been dreamed of for the time - and an astonishing knowledge of the motions of the heavenly bodies, and the device was made 21 centuries ago, when planets were known as wanderers (the Greek for "wanderer" is "planetol"), because they didn't know the heliocentric model, and before they had telescopes. Since adolescence, I have taken an interest in astronomy, but they knew subtleties of the motion of the moon that I didn't know till I was in my sixties. The ancient Egyptians used stone cutting techniques that are still not understood. To do it nowadays would involve techniques and materials (diamond saws, for example) that we believe they did not have. All in all, people in history and pre-history were cleverer and more technologically advanced than most people realise.
I've never heard this part of the overture, but I already love it! I wonder what In the Hall of the Mountain King (my favorite classical tune!) would sound like on one of these music boxes.
@@brendareed8412 Hi ho silver away, is the tagline from a 1950s to 1960s television series about the Lone Ranger. They famously used the last movement of the William Tell overture as the theme music.
Hurrah! What a wonderful melody! I congratulate and praise one who had programmed the disc of the music-box. Some tall case striking clocks too played melody on built in music-box mechanism just before or soon after striking the hours on bell or gong. Nowadays some quartz clocks electronically imitates these types of music-boxes and chiming clocks because they contains electronically recorded and programmed circuit board of sound chips connected to speaker installed in it. Even some electronic door bells too contains such a circuit board connected to speaker. But nothing can beat real music-boxes and chiming clocks.
Ever since I heard Toreador March in Fnaf, I’ve developed an interest in classical music and music boxes in general. William Tell Overture is one of my favorite classical pieces.
@@radioactiveprepper8259 but the timbre is horrible, it's nice as a gimmick but you would not want to listen to hours of this pling pling ploing ploing sound.. would you?
It's funny that complicated rhythms need to be played on high notes, because the lower-pitch notes are on the inner ring, which has the least space and spins the most slowly.
Thank you very much, Doug, for posting this nice selection out of the swissest of all swiss tunes, Wilhelm Tell (by an italian composer...). A truly wonderful piece of music, on an outstanding sounding music box.
I used to go to ST Augustine FL when stationed at Mayport FL while the US Navy to the Flagler museum where they had several models including a Nickelodeon version that had 10 selectable disks. Great sound for heavy metal....😅
Man you saved my life. That was almost 45 seconds that I could have lost and never get back. Now because of this I will pursue my quest to save the world from hunger and diseases.
@dingdong5378 You are most welcome, Raphael. Thank you as always for your gracious and always interesting comments. I'm pleased that you stopped in for a visit and took the time to post the nice comment.
Untill i can visualize The Lone Ranger and his faithful friend, Tonto, it ain't the Real William Tell. The Bugs Bunny cartoon's taught me more about classical music than 13 years of public education. Kimo Sabe ...
Actually, this is in fact from the William Tell Overture, part 3, "Ranz des Vaches". Greig's "Morning Mood" has a very similar feel, but has a different melody. Both pieces are commonly used in movies to evoke the dawn of the day. Here are links to both. ruclips.net/video/mJTIMlwQT_A/видео.html ruclips.net/video/x463zoWpiVI/видео.html
dang kids and their metal music
And it's a metal disk!
The disk was thin, so this was light metal. It's the precursor to heavy-metal! 😁
@@BobDiaz123 That sounds like a much earlier version of the current 120 grams vs 180 grams vinyl records debate we have currently.
This made me laugh _way_ too hard.
@@Povilaz - I do what I can
Since many people obviously aren't reading the description - The William Tell overture is written in 4 distinct parts. This is part 3, entitled "Ranz des Vaches" (Call to the Cows). Part four is a "galop", and was the part used for The Lone Ranger.
The title didn't say anything about pt.3, it just says WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE and the name of the machine
@@phiddlephart7026 Sorry, I guess I meant the text that the original poster wrote, underneath the title of the video. He explains that this is part 3 of 4, but you have to click on "show more" to see that.
@@gregoryschmidt1233 oh, ok, you are right, I didn't scroll down. Thanks for that info cause I'm a sucker for click bait. Problem is as soon as I click on a utube video it starts playing & I get distracted.
@@phiddlephart7026 lol
@@phiddlephart7026 the disk itself says "Overture andante". If you Google "William Tell Overture andante" you get... the Call to the Cows. Thus, people in 1900 would have know what they were buying.
You never realize how complex a song is until you’re forced to see all the notes notched out on one disk
And that’s not even the full piece
Or you know....look at the sheet music. I actually thought it seems simple on that disk since it's basically a single instrument for a minute.
I'm going to assume, if anything, that this is simplifying the arrangement somewhat.
@@DaveDexterMusic could be, man music is so beautiful. Wish I had studied it in school.
The crazy part is that, when this music box was made, there where still people alive who were already born when the Guglielmo Tell came out. So much human history is compressed in just two hundred years.
Directly related to free thinking in a free America.
@@davidcraig9779 I think you replied to the wrong comment. 😂
European History*
Europeans were bad, don't say they're part of humanity, please.
@@td9250 Another victim of the white man? We're waiting for you to show us the way. Give everything back to the Indians, the Aztecs, the Mayans and move home where you'll be happy.
@@td9250 What...? That has nothing to do with the comment.
Anyways, you shouldn't be here listening to European music if you think they were so bad.
The sound is so magical, ethereal. Not just this one but all of them. Imagine a world where this was such a treat. Maybe a Sunday night in a front parlor after dinner. In some ways a quieter world - just different sounds would be louder. But on a calm Sunday evening this would be amazing. We take music today for granted. I cannot imagine the sheer ecstasy of attending a live concert after mostly only hearing something like this. It feels special hearing it this way, to hear it as they did just before the turn of the century.
I was waiting for the "Lone Ranger," part hahaha! Very beautiful!
Unintentionnal clickbait
Same.
Same.
That's the fourth part of the overture...also known as "The March Of The Swiss Soldiers". This is the third part, otherwise known as "The Call to the Dairy Cows".
That's in the flip side of this disk (grin).
We still have one of these at our home in Fiji. It still works, but is in need of restoration. Our great Uncle collected various music boxes and as children we had great fun playing them.
Production of a disk like that involved some high precision engineering. And, of course, the player also was beyond what most modern people think was possible 200 years ago.
120 years ago, but the point is well taken.
@@RonJohn63 That is true for the one pictured - it is captioned "1899 Stella music box", but my comment was "production of a disk like that", and they have been produced since the late 17th century - in the region of 230 years ago. I used to have a little cylinder music box - not in a box, but just the mechanics, and you turned a little crank handle to operate it, and I used to marvel at the precision required to make it. The reeds are plucked by little pegs, and the position and length of the pegs has to be remarkably exact for the timing of the music to be precise, and the human ear is finely tuned to differences in cadence.
But my real fascination is with the state of engineering at a time when most modern people suppose the that people of that time were primitive, and they are so incredulous about the construction of the pyramids and Stonehenge that the only explanation is "aliens". When the Antikythera mechanism was decoded, it revealed a degree of mechanical sophistication that had not been dreamed of for the time - and an astonishing knowledge of the motions of the heavenly bodies, and the device was made 21 centuries ago, when planets were known as wanderers (the Greek for "wanderer" is "planetol"), because they didn't know the heliocentric model, and before they had telescopes. Since adolescence, I have taken an interest in astronomy, but they knew subtleties of the motion of the moon that I didn't know till I was in my sixties.
The ancient Egyptians used stone cutting techniques that are still not understood. To do it nowadays would involve techniques and materials (diamond saws, for example) that we believe they did not have. All in all, people in history and pre-history were cleverer and more technologically advanced than most people realise.
@@DownhillAllTheWay point taken.
I have always wanted this kind of music box.
Lovely! I remember seeing and hearing a similar machine at the Biltmore House in North Carolina. It was in a gift shop, and the sound was magical.
I've never heard this part of the overture, but I already love it! I wonder what In the Hall of the Mountain King (my favorite classical tune!) would sound like on one of these music boxes.
A true music connoisseur can listen to the Lone Ranger theme and not think about William Tell.
Hi ho silver, away!
Who said that, Will Rogers?
Yea, I remember reading that in Mad magazine.
@@brendareed8412 Hi ho silver away, is the tagline from a 1950s to 1960s television series about the Lone Ranger. They famously used the last movement of the William Tell overture as the theme music.
Oh, yes, I remember the show and loved Silver! I meant who said that about the William Tell Overture. :)
Magical....timeless.
I love the start of William Tell, it's so beautiful!
Beautiful just what I needed this morning amongst the chaos.
Thank you for documenting this. Much work and love went into creating these objects.
No sound like this. Magical. Thank you for uploading.
Such a beautiful tone from this 19th century precursor of the computer. 🎶
This is just... MAGIC! It can't be anything else..! Thanks for posting it!
Very pretty music box music !
Hurrah! What a wonderful melody! I congratulate and praise one who had programmed the disc of the music-box. Some tall case striking clocks too played melody on built in music-box mechanism just before or soon after striking the hours on bell or gong. Nowadays some quartz clocks electronically imitates these types of music-boxes and chiming clocks because they contains electronically recorded and programmed circuit board of sound chips connected to speaker installed in it. Even some electronic door bells too contains such a circuit board connected to speaker. But nothing can beat real music-boxes and chiming clocks.
stunnigly beautifull, so detailed !
Ever since I heard Toreador March in Fnaf, I’ve developed an interest in classical music and music boxes in general. William Tell Overture is one of my favorite classical pieces.
How could anyone 'dislike' this? It's absolutely wonderful.
This reminds me of something, but I can't remember what it is and it's bothering me. But this is amazing.
the hound waking up in the flowers, in Looney Tunes
The theme was used in numerous cartoons and usually represented "morning" or "awakening."
Amazing and awesome!
This is pure Magic!
Man Man oh man this thing is beautiful
Hmmmm my ears are popping all the way through this... (fascinating) like hitting a altitude
Thank you for sharing!
My CD-player resign towards 3 or 4 years. This marvellous piece of art lasts generations. And its (nearly) "digital audio" too. ;)
I was just about to add that the audio quality of it is truly amazing!
I would call it digital...each note is either on or off.
@@radioactiveprepper8259 but the timbre is horrible, it's nice as a gimmick but you would not want to listen to hours of this pling pling ploing ploing sound.. would you?
this was before planned obsolescence, that's capitalism for you.
@@lezzman Its a kind of MIDI for my liking - the built-in "hardware" inflates the notes...
It's funny that complicated rhythms need to be played on high notes, because the lower-pitch notes are on the inner ring, which has the least space and spins the most slowly.
BEAUTIFUL!!
This is simply incredible. I love it. I have never seen this before. I would love to have one of these old record players
my DEATH. in HELL. my DEATH. in HELL. my DEATH. in HELL.
That's absolutely 💯sound
Beautiful
Can't wait to see the size of the disc for Nightwish's The Greatest Show On Earth.
So cool !!
Love it!
Very impressive 👌
Thank you very much, Doug, for posting this nice selection out of the swissest of all swiss tunes, Wilhelm Tell (by an italian composer...). A truly wonderful piece of music, on an outstanding sounding music box.
I used to go to ST Augustine FL when stationed at Mayport FL while the US Navy to the Flagler museum where they had several models including a Nickelodeon version that had 10 selectable disks. Great sound for heavy metal....😅
Thank you for your service ☝
Legit so magical💫
such a magical sound! love it!
Beautyful... I can just imagine you in a church... I dont know why...
Thanks!
Did not know this came from William Tell.
The Greatest Unintentionnal clickbait
Nice
Gorgeous!
SPOILER ALERT : there will be a 45 second delay in the music or skip to 00:45 for instant music yw
Man you saved my life. That was almost 45 seconds that I could have lost and never get back. Now because of this I will pursue my quest to save the world from hunger and diseases.
Thanks.
Awesome
You can also grate a mean Cole slaw on it.
This sounds more like "Morning Mood" from Peer Gynt though...
@dingdong5378 You are most welcome, Raphael. Thank you as always for your gracious and always interesting comments. I'm pleased that you stopped in for a visit and took the time to post the nice comment.
Needs more cowbell.
Baby, I got a FEVER....And the ONLY cure is COWBELL.
There actually are music machines using this technology that could play cowbells!
@@sschmidtevalue So there is.... Bring it on!
Better than today's mp3's!!!
Pretty...
Sounded great I thought it would be the Lone Ranger part
On my pianola the "Lone Ranger" bit takes ages to get too, then you need 4 legs and a supply of oxygen .......
Was expecting the entire piece.
@mechanicsnut Thanks for the gracious comments. Stop back again soon.
soo nice :)
Can it be considered a recording..?
Muito bom!!!
I will not remove until the song ended
Starts at 0:45
Just like the band concert.
I was wondering if the points and tines ware down does the timing become off?
Song starts at 0:42
grandios!
The music starts at 0:45
I miss the Fisher Price version of this machine.
Very pretty, but is the camera person chained to the player? Why so very close, let's get a look at 'er!
I always feel this type of music storage are missing percussion sounds.
i wish i had that music box, do you have any Christmas discs
how does it work does it blow air through the holes?
The holes trip flexible teeth that are tuned to specific notes. Each ring of holes correspond to one pitch.
I was getting Bugs Bunny flash backs.
Interesting RUclips recommended
Not sure this is William Tell Overture or at least the famous part.
like an elevator muzak version of Panama by Van Halen
Music starts as ~ 0:47
Only 1890es kids remember
yes
"The underside is slightly oiled. Do not remove until the end of tune."
earliest Synthesia file
Somebody needs to get the label right. This is not William Tell Overture.
Do TELL.
Untill i can visualize The Lone Ranger and his faithful friend, Tonto, it ain't the Real William Tell.
The Bugs Bunny cartoon's taught me more about classical music than 13 years of public education.
Kimo Sabe ...
This is NOT the William Tell Overture. This is Greig's "Morning" from The Peer Grynt suite No. 1
Actually, this is in fact from the William Tell Overture, part 3, "Ranz des Vaches". Greig's "Morning Mood" has a very similar feel, but has a different melody. Both pieces are commonly used in movies to evoke the dawn of the day. Here are links to both. ruclips.net/video/mJTIMlwQT_A/видео.html ruclips.net/video/x463zoWpiVI/видео.html
The arrogance! 😅
Jamming
0:04 Not to slippery, not too dry. "Slightly Oiled".
Trouble is, that was not even 25% of the tune, where's the rest? You know the galloping horses and such.
That's on sheet 2, 3, 4, and 5. You can only put enough holes in for one rotation. And then it repeats.
FNAF LEAK?
Marvel. Even in XXI Century.
That doesn't sound like any William Tell Overture I've ever heard.
This is part 3 of the overture. Part 4, the "gallop", is what we usually think of.
needs more screams of the transfer student
this doesn't sound anything like the william tell overture.
Is it just me or do I hear a little bit of five nights at Freddy in these
SAME
first midi ever