The Musician is an 18th-century clockwork automaton organ player which actually plays with individual finger movements. She also ‘breathes’ with a heaving chest. Created in 1774 by Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. It is part of a famous trio of androids including “The Writer” and “The Draughtsman” currently housed at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. This film was taken during a private tour booked to see all three automa
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The Musician is an 18th-century clockwork automaton organ player which actually plays with individual finger movements. She also ‘breathes’ with a heaving chest. Created in 1774 by Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis, and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. It is part of a famous trio of androids including “The Writer” and “The Draughtsman” currently housed at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. This film was taken during a private tour booked to see all three automa
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An automaton built in Germany in 1772 for Queen Marie-Antoinette, this mechanical marvel plays the tympanon — a stringed hammered instrument resembling a small dulcimer. Restored in the 19th century by magician-inventor Robert-Houdin, the machine preserves centuries-old mechanics while embodying the uncanny charm of music brought to life by clockwork. Every strike on the tympanon's metal strings feels preordained, each hammer movement both precise and ghostly. It’s music without flesh — delicate
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An automaton built in Germany in 1772 for Queen Marie-Antoinette, this mechanical marvel plays the tympanon — a stringed hammered instrument resembling a small dulcimer. Restored in the 19th century by magician-inventor Robert-Houdin, the machine preserves centuries-old mechanics while embodying the uncanny charm of music brought to life by clockwork. Every strike on the tympanon's metal strings feels preordained, each hammer movement both precise and ghostly. It’s music without flesh — delicate
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This charming jewelled gold and enamel automaton mouse darts, twirls and nibbles in a most lifelike and realistic manner. Created by Henri Maillardet around 1805, it will be offered for sale on 8 July 2015 in our Treasures auction: http://bit.ly/1SoayTP | Sotheby's
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This charming jewelled gold and enamel automaton mouse darts, twirls and nibbles in a most lifelike and realistic manner. Created by Henri Maillardet around 1805, it will be offered for sale on 8 July 2015 in our Treasures auction: http://bit.ly/1SoayTP | Sotheby's
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