Hello all on MMD, today I uploaded to YouTube a new video from my
collection, this time presenting a Swiss cylinder orchestra music box
with additional 3 bells, a drum, a castanette and 10 reed organ voices,
made in the 1880s by Barnett Henry Abrahams in Ste. Croix, and playing
6 Chinese tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byo398neWiU The 5th
tune, "She pah moh", was used by Puccini in his opera "Madama Butterfly"
from 1904.
This music box I got at the Rüdesheim weekend in freshly restored
condition -- and I am proud to have it now! Enjoy!
With the best collector's regards from Marburg/Germany,
Jochen Schäfer, a.k.a. Jochen Kopf
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