Naeshult Table Piano MULTiFORMAT
AUDIOSTRiKE | 15/05/2015 | 798 MB
The Naeshult Table Piano is a curious and charming crank-driven instrument from the nineteenth-century, an oversized music box with a table for a body. Out of the flames, so to speak, we saved this odd crank-driven automatic piano instrument. It’s like an oversized music box, using a rotating roll with pins to activate wooden clubs that hit horizontal strings. These so-called table pianos, or piano harps, were made in Småland in the south of Sweden from about 1880 until 1929, when the manufacturing plant was burnt. During this period there was a use for self-playing instruments in schools, churches, and other groups. You could call them ”sing-along machines of the 1800s”. Naturally, the demand declined in conjunction with the introduction of gramophone records.
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