100 Year Old Self-Playing Violin - 'The Eighth Wonder Of the World'

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- This amazing instrument is The Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina - an Orchestrion with self-playing Violins, Enjoy!

Name: Phonoliszt Violina
Type of Instrument: Orchestrion
Year Built: 1914
Maker: Ludwig Hupfeld A.-G.
Place of Manufacture: Leipzig, Germany

Welcome to the first episode of our completely new video series: Music Machine Mondays. This series is an attempt to share the wonders of the Speelklok Museum with you.
Speelklok is a mechanical music instrument museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
We have filmed my favourite instruments from the museums collection and on every monday we feature a different mechanical masterpiece. All the Best/ Martin & Co
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Video Made by Martin Molin & Hannes Trainerds Knutsson

Thanks to our friends at the wonderful Speelklok Museum:

Guides from Speelklok Museum:
Joost Oehler & Lois Tonen

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[butterflynotes]

The tuning. The cleaning. The maintenance over all. This is one heck of an instrument.

[flashUSA]

Not only did these people have to hold a firm knowledge of music but they had to understand mechanics and how to align everything time-wise AND they built some of these machines without electricity and none of these were built with CAD programs on a computer. Beyond amazing!

[bogdog]

Something I noticed but wasn't mentioned was the way it wiggles the bridge to get a tremolo effect. Very clever machine from a very clever time in mechanical tech.

[zero]

i still think we highly underestimated how smart people in the history actually are, media do history no justice

[jwilli]

As a furniture mover, the sight of it gives me anxiety!

[rhinestines]

woman: wearing gloves. man: ill just lean on it with my bare arm and hand

[Dirk]

I am Dutch, so I am excited that you were inspired by the Speelklok museum! Thank you for your appreciation for the museum and making it better known all over the world by your video.

[sasquatch-]

I'm 70 years old and have always appreciated genius innovation. In my life experience, only about 2% of people think about and try to create new things. The other 98% stand around and tell them it will never work.

[RayMak]

You're getting closer and closer to building a perfect instrument

[andycheng]

I guess youtube recommendations have brought us all back together again

[kekzealot]

When a violin plays itself it's called an eighth wonder if the world.
When I play with myself I get thrown out from museum

[MikeRosoftJH]

2:00 And now the world has gone full circle: you're listening to this music on a machine which has absolutely no violins inside, but can imitate them (as well as just about any other sound).

[programmedwrong]

This is amazing. This shows why humans are so bad ass. Not only to build the instruments, but the instruments to master the instruments. Mind blown! Boom!

[leiladekwatro]

"What is this? “

A Hurdy Gurdy with extra steps.

[LucresntBlade]

Engineering Masters... I can't even fathom how this was constructed.

[ej.]

The song at 0:25 is called "Sous le ciel de Paris" :)

[tristanbach]

5:15 for anyone who only wants to see it play.

[DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

So we've got a Swedish guy talking to a Dutch girl about a German instrument, in English. It's like a Germanic Variety Pack! 😉 Anyhow, very cool video. Thanks for featuring this instrument — I've enjoyed a number of orchestrions over the years, but I don't think I'd ever come across one with violins before now.

[crtmojo]

Brilliant bow idea. Instead of back and forth on a pivot arm they did a loop. Really the only reason we go back and forth is because our arms are only so long. Eventually you gotta come back.

[geniew]

I couldn't think of a more perfect video series for me to enjoy (apart from the already more than perfect Wonderful Wintergatan Wednesdays, of course!). Thanks for sharing bits of this fairy tale with us! P.S. Marble Machine X will be the 10th wonder of the world. The 9th is your first Marble Machine. :)