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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleMusical Lyre Shaped Clock with Cylinder Movement Creator Georg Obermayr (watchmaker)‎ PlaceVienna (Austria) Year ca. 1815 Object number0688 Object categorymechanical instruments with playing comb Object nametimepiece with playing comb, table clock DescriptionThis type of clock is called a lyre clock, after the instrument whose shape it imitates. The gold parts are fire gilded and the movement is surrounded by green malachite. Accompanying textsThe cylinder movement has a segmental playing comb of 65 teeth. The clock can play two melodies, both of which are waltzes. Like most other similar early 19th-century two-voice playing works in the museum collection, it has a tonal range of 4 to 4 1/2 octaves. The arrangements are exuberant and often hark back to the classical music repertoire. The case is believed to be French, but the back of the movement is signed "Georg Obermayr, Vienna. A lyre is a precursor of the harp from Classical Antiquity. During the Empire period, when this clock was manufactured, it was a popular model. The green malachite that surrounds the movement is a mineral that was regularly used in ornamental objects, but has had a variety of other uses throughout history (such as paint, makeup and even as a painkiller). Dimensions geheel height: 21.5 cm geheel width: 15 cm geheel depth: 10.5 cm grondplaat speelwerk width: 6.4 cm grondplaat speelwerk depth: 4.9 cm cilinder length: 6 cm cilinder diameter: 1.4 cm Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder geluidsbron: playing comb aandrijving: spring Digital references

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TitleMusical Lyre Shaped Clock with Cylinder Movement

Creator Georg Obermayr (watchmaker)‎

PlaceVienna (Austria)

Year ca. 1815

Object number0688

Object categorymechanical instruments with playing comb

Object nametimepiece with playing comb, table clock

DescriptionThis type of clock is called a lyre clock, after the instrument whose shape it imitates. The gold parts are fire gilded and the movement is surrounded by green malachite.

Accompanying textsThe cylinder movement has a segmental playing comb of 65 teeth. The clock can play two melodies, both of which are waltzes. Like most other similar early 19th-century two-voice playing works in the museum collection, it has a tonal range of 4 to 4 1/2 octaves. The arrangements are exuberant and often hark back to the classical music repertoire.

The case is believed to be French, but the back of the movement is signed "Georg Obermayr, Vienna.
A lyre is a precursor of the harp from Classical Antiquity. During the Empire period, when this clock was manufactured, it was a popular model. The green malachite that surrounds the movement is a mineral that was regularly used in ornamental objects, but has had a variety of other uses throughout history (such as paint, makeup and even as a painkiller).

Dimensions

geheel height: 21.5 cm
geheel width: 15 cm
geheel depth: 10.5 cm
grondplaat speelwerk width: 6.4 cm
grondplaat speelwerk depth: 4.9 cm
cilinder length: 6 cm
cilinder diameter: 1.4 cm

Keywordsprogrammadrager: cylinder
geluidsbron: playing comb
aandrijving: spring

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