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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleLongcase Clock with String Playing Movement Creator Jacob Ottsen (watchmaker)‎ PlaceSleeswijk (Germany) Year ca. 1775 Object number0598 Object categorymechanical hammered string instruments, timepieces with musical movements Object nametimepiece with strings, longcase clock DescriptionYou could call this a clock with piano, because it has strings that are struck with hammers. This makes the technical component relatively simple. However, the strings can quickly become detuned, so it is not a low-maintenance instrument. Accompanying textsThis is actually a clock with a piano. It contains strings that are struck by hammers. The ‘Hackbrettuhr’ (also on display in this room) works exactly the same way. Nevertheless, the clocks each have their own name: ‘Hackbrettuhr’ and ‘Harfenuhr’. This has to do with the origin: clocks with string movements from the Black Forest were called ‘Hackbrettuhr’; the rest were called ‘Harfenuhr’. We can make a connection in terms of history with the Hackbrettuhr in our collection (nr. 1273). But the term "Hackbrettuhr" is usually applied only to clocks with a string playing mechanism made in the Black Forest. Other clocks with this mechanism are not described in this way, but rather fall under the collective term 'Harfenuhr'. The latter term does apply to this clock, which comes from Schleswig in Germany. Dimensions geheel height: 283 cm geheel width: 63 cm geheel depth: 49 cm geheel width: 87 cm geheel width: 115 cm ladenkast height: 76 cm ladenkast width: 102 cm ladenkast depth: 54 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder geluidsbron: strings aandrijving: weights echappement: ankergang Digital references

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TitleLongcase Clock with String Playing Movement

Creator Jacob Ottsen (watchmaker)‎

PlaceSleeswijk (Germany)

Year ca. 1775

Object number0598

Object categorymechanical hammered string instruments, timepieces with musical movements

Object nametimepiece with strings, longcase clock

DescriptionYou could call this a clock with piano, because it has strings that are struck with hammers. This makes the technical component relatively simple. However, the strings can quickly become detuned, so it is not a low-maintenance instrument.

Accompanying textsThis is actually a clock with a piano. It contains strings that are struck by hammers. The ‘Hackbrettuhr’ (also on display in this room) works exactly the same way. Nevertheless, the clocks each have their own name: ‘Hackbrettuhr’ and ‘Harfenuhr’. This has to do with the origin: clocks with string movements from the Black Forest were called ‘Hackbrettuhr’; the rest were called ‘Harfenuhr’.

We can make a connection in terms of history with the Hackbrettuhr in our collection (nr. 1273). But the term "Hackbrettuhr" is usually applied only to clocks with a string playing mechanism made in the Black Forest. Other clocks with this mechanism are not described in this way, but rather fall under the collective term 'Harfenuhr'. The latter term does apply to this clock, which comes from Schleswig in Germany.

Dimensions

geheel height: 283 cm
geheel width: 63 cm
geheel depth: 49 cm
geheel width: 87 cm
geheel width: 115 cm
ladenkast height: 76 cm
ladenkast width: 102 cm
ladenkast depth: 54 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder
geluidsbron: strings
aandrijving: weights
echappement: ankergang

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