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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleDancing Couple, automaton with cylinder movement PlaceParis (France) Year ca. 1880 Object number0370 Object categorymechanical instruments with playing comb, automata with musical movements Object nameautomaton with playing comb, automaton with cylinder DescriptionThe secret of this automaton is hidden under the opulent skirts of the dancing lady. There you can find the spring-driven mechanism and the musical movement in a tin drum. Through the wooden base plate protrude a total of three wheels that propel the automaton. Two of these, the large wheels, are driven by the spring barrel. The small nose wheel is fixed so that the pair always moves in a circle. The cylinder playing work has two melodies that change automatically. The playing work is driven directly by the motor. Accompanying textsOne of the two melodies plays, appropriately, a section from Johann Strauss II's Kaiserwalzer. The other melody is unknown. Around 1900, automata were increasingly used for advertising purposes and the 'domestic automaton' slowly went out of fashion. Increasingly, showroom automata were powered by an electric motor. Large companies like Vichy, Phalibois, Roullet & Decamps responded to this and evolved with the times. Moving scenes appeared in the shop windows of famous department stores such as Bon Marché, Louvre Samaritaine, Galeries lafayette and Printems in the December days. In 1909, Gaston Decamps depicted Robert Edwin Peary's journey to the North Pole for Bon Marché. This particular French tradition lasted until the 1960s. Dimensions geheel height: 34 cm geheel width: 30 cm geheel depth: 36 cm cilinder length: 6.1 cm cilinder diameter: 1.5 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder geluidsbron: playing comb aandrijving: spring

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TitleDancing Couple, automaton with cylinder movement

PlaceParis (France)

Year ca. 1880

Object number0370

Object categorymechanical instruments with playing comb, automata with musical movements

Object nameautomaton with playing comb, automaton with cylinder

DescriptionThe secret of this automaton is hidden under the opulent skirts of the dancing lady. There you can find the spring-driven mechanism and the musical movement in a tin drum. Through the wooden base plate protrude a total of three wheels that propel the automaton. Two of these, the large wheels, are driven by the spring barrel. The small nose wheel is fixed so that the pair always moves in a circle. The cylinder playing work has two melodies that change automatically. The playing work is driven directly by the motor.

Accompanying textsOne of the two melodies plays, appropriately, a section from Johann Strauss II's Kaiserwalzer. The other melody is unknown.

Around 1900, automata were increasingly used for advertising purposes and the 'domestic automaton' slowly went out of fashion. Increasingly, showroom automata were powered by an electric motor. Large companies like Vichy, Phalibois, Roullet & Decamps responded to this and evolved with the times. Moving scenes appeared in the shop windows of famous department stores such as Bon Marché, Louvre Samaritaine, Galeries lafayette and Printems in the December days. In 1909, Gaston Decamps depicted Robert Edwin Peary's journey to the North Pole for Bon Marché. This particular French tradition lasted until the 1960s.

Dimensions

geheel height: 34 cm
geheel width: 30 cm
geheel depth: 36 cm
cilinder length: 6.1 cm
cilinder diameter: 1.5 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder
geluidsbron: playing comb
aandrijving: spring

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