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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleMusical Table Clock with Organ Movement Creator Pierre Jaquet Droz PlaceLa Chaux-de-Fonds (Zwitserland) Year ca. 1780 Object number0603 Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes, timepieces with musical movements Object nametimepiece with organ pipes, table clock DescriptionThis late-eighteenth-century table organ clock by renowned maker Pierre Jaquet Droz uses real tortoiseshell - a then-popular but environmentally damaging material - to apply patterns to the rich red case. Accompanying textsThe organ has 13 keys and one stop and can play eight melodies, including a Prelude, an Allegro and a March. The inclusion of a sharp G in the instrument's scale is perhaps noteworthy, as this note is only used in one of the pieces the organ can play (a Prelude in A minor). In 1738, Pierre Jaquet-Droz started making clocks in La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1758, he made a trip to Spain and managed to sell six clocks to King Ferdinand VI. This gave a huge boost to his business. With his son Henry-Louis and employee Jean-Frédéric Leschot, he worked on exclusive watches, automatons and (musical) clocks, which were sold all over the world. Pierre Jaquet-Droz died in 1790 and his son passed away only a year later. Dimensions geheel height: 85 cm geheel width: 46 cm geheel depth: 30 cm geheel width: 70 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder geluidsbron: organ pipes aandrijving: spring aandrijving? fusee echappement: verge escapement Digital references

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TitleMusical Table Clock with Organ Movement

Creator Pierre Jaquet Droz

PlaceLa Chaux-de-Fonds (Zwitserland)

Year ca. 1780

Object number0603

Object categorymechanical instruments with organ pipes, timepieces with musical movements

Object nametimepiece with organ pipes, table clock

DescriptionThis late-eighteenth-century table organ clock by renowned maker Pierre Jaquet Droz uses real tortoiseshell - a then-popular but environmentally damaging material - to apply patterns to the rich red case.

Accompanying textsThe organ has 13 keys and one stop and can play eight melodies, including a Prelude, an Allegro and a March. The inclusion of a sharp G in the instrument's scale is perhaps noteworthy, as this note is only used in one of the pieces the organ can play (a Prelude in A minor).

In 1738, Pierre Jaquet-Droz started making clocks in La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1758, he made a trip to Spain and managed to sell six clocks to King Ferdinand VI. This gave a huge boost to his business. With his son Henry-Louis and employee Jean-Frédéric Leschot, he worked on exclusive watches, automatons and (musical) clocks, which were sold all over the world. Pierre Jaquet-Droz died in 1790 and his son passed away only a year later.

Dimensions

geheel height: 85 cm
geheel width: 46 cm
geheel depth: 30 cm
geheel width: 70 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder
geluidsbron: organ pipes
aandrijving: spring
aandrijving? fusee
echappement: verge escapement

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