Notes from Stemra 6818.072:

Van Speelklok Tot Pierement

Side 1:
				   
   Trompetenuhr	
Réveil	0:28		   

   Harfenuhr	
Freut euch des Lebens	1:08		   

   Haydn-speelklok	
Menuet uit Don Giovanni met varieties 2:28	W.A. Mozart	   

   Bryceson kerkdraaiorgel	
The old hundredth psalm 1:33	Geneva Psalter
Robin Adair	1:32   Scotch song
	   
   F. Nicole cylinderspeeldoos	
Il barbiere di Siviglia	2:50	G. Rossini	   

   P.V.F. .Plerodienique' cylinderspeeldoos	
Grande Valse Brillante	4:52	F. Chopin	   

   Polyphon M5 platenspeeldoos	
Oh, Susanna!	1:58	Hinsch	   

   Regina platenspeeldoos	
Old folks at home	2:12	Foster	   

   Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina	
Hello Susie	3:12	Robertson	   

   Tingel-Tangel	
J'ai des touches	1:44	Sylviano	   

Kant 2:				   

   Bacigalupo buikorgel	
Du kannst nicht treu sein	0:44	H. Often	   

   Gasparini draaiorgel	
Geed me een sigarenbandje 1:32  E. Noordijk-arr. Carl Frei
Hoor de muzikanten	1:57	H. Stent-arr. Carl Frei	   

   Gavloli dansorgel ,de Aalster'	
Geef mij rode rozen  1:00  P. Maas
After the ball	1:34	E. Kiefert	   

   Mortier dansorgel	
Rock around the clock  1:15  Freedman-de Knight
Ma, he's making eyes at me	1:00  Conrad-Clare	   

   Arburo orchestrion	
Ik ben zo blij   1:35   J. van Deurse-J. Kraft
Oue sera sera	1:16	R. Evans-J. Livingston	   

   Hooghuys dansorgel	
Foxtrot 5016   1:35   E.G. Hooghuys	
Foxtrot 5019	1:30	E.G. Hooghuys
   

   Carl Frei draaiorgel ,de Dubbele Biphone'	
Als op het Leidseplein   1:32   C. Streyn-arr. Carl Frei
Mijn neef uit Canada	1:57	Burns-Scholler-Pruis-arr. L. van. Grol	   

   Carl Frei kermisorgel ,de Schuyt'	
Mina de Rumbakoningin  2:33  arr. Carl Frei
The Muppet Show (tnema)	1:22	Henson-Pottle- arr. J.K. de Ruyter	 


The collection of the National Museum from Musical    
Clock to Street Organ contains some 600 musical      
automata from the 18th to 20th centuries,              
In the 18th century Handel, Haydn and Mozart
composed music especially for musical clocks,         
clocks with a small barrel organ. The German Black
Forest produced its thousands of musical clocks with
bells, strings, flutes or reeds, and it seemed a good
idea to begin this record with one of the rarest
'Schwarzwalder': a so-called trumpeter-clock.
Almost a century earlier, around 1790, the
'Harfenuhren' were quite popular. Small wooden
hammers, actuated by pins on the musical cylinder,
play upon a set of strings, thereby producing the
sound of a miniature square piano.

Amsterdam is not only famous for its 17th century
carillons, it also produced many fine musical long
case clocks and bracket clocks. The Dutch Haydn
clock is a flute-playing long case clock with a small
barrel organ in its base. The many interchangeable
cylinders provide an extensive musical library of the
1800-period.

Due to the helicoidal music-notation on the cylinders
the duration of the pieces may last up to five
minutes. In England the barrel organ was a success
even in the church. The 19th century saw literally
hundreds of British churches well-equipped with a
4-stop barrel organ, thus doing away with the
competent organist and requiring only some
muscular effort. The old hundredth as played on the
neo-gothic Bryceson barrel organ provides a good
example.

Four comb-playing instruments have been recorded.
The first is a F. Nicole overture-box, made in
Geneva around 1835. The fine one-piece comb has
230 musical teeth. The 'Plerodienique' musical box,
( ± 1880), like the Haydn clock, has a helicoidal
notation and is, consequently, capable of
uninterrupted play for over five minutes.

The Polyphon and Regina are both disc musical boxes,
produced around 1900 in Germany and America
respectively. The great period of the disc-playing
musical boxes lays between 1890 and 1914. Much
as 19th century Switzerland was the incontestible
centre of the production of cylinder musical boxes,
Leipzig in East-Germany was the great producer of
hundreds of thousands of disc-playing instruments.
Hupfeld's 'Violin player' was one of the marvels at
the World Exhibition of 1910 in Brussels. The
Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina is a combination of a
player-piano plus three mechanically operated
violins, using perforated paper music rolls.
The Belgian 'Tingel-Tangel' ( ± 1930) offers a choice
of ten pieces of dance-music, arranged with
thousands of steel pins on a large wooden barrel.
The spring-wound instrument plays after the
insertion of a coin.

Side two of this record is reserved entirely for
cylinder-, book and roll-playing organs. The
Bacigalupo street organ of J 890 still has its wooden
cylinder with eight short melodies, but the Aalster
Gavioli (ca. 1900) and the Gasparini (ca. 1910) play
their music from zig-zag folding cardboard books
with punched holes of varying lengths to operate
music, percussion and stop-changing devices.
Organs like the Gavioli, the Mortier (ca. 1925) and
the Hooghuys (ca. 1915) played in large dancehalls,
while the Carl Frei organs the 'Dubbele Biphone'
and 'the Schuyt' could be heard in the streets of the
Dutch towns or in the often highly spectacular
fairground attractions of the first half of this century.
Carl Frei, was born in Schidlach in 1884, in the heart
of the Black Forest. After having worked for
prominent makers of mechanical organs such as
Bruder, Gavioli and Mortier he settled in Breda, in
the Netherlands, around 1920. Here he founded his
own organ factory and with his unique craftmanship
and great creativity he produced a new type of
organ, the so-called Type 90-key, that was
remarkable for its totally new sound-structure. Of
this type the Biphone and the Schuyt (both ± 1930)
are excellent examples. Of course the selection of
instruments and music on this record is necessarily
arbitrary and superficial. Both during the guided
tours, at special concerts and by means of available
literature the National Museum tries to provide more
thorough information on its collection of musical
automata.                      

Jan Jaap Haspels
Director