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Maker of the movements: Cuendet, J. Billon (and others?)
[1] Forte Mandoline Piccolo Harp [2] Coming soon 1904: Sublime Harmonie Piccolo 2399: Sublime Harmonie (B. F.) 6260 (?) (a hard to read four digit number) Sublime Harmonie (coin operated) Sublime Harmonie (Musé Baud, for sale) 12 airs, 10 pouces, 1st: Le premier baiser [1] Forte Mandoline Piccolo Harp
Nr. [2] Coming soon Nr. [3] Timbres caches
Nr. [4] Interchangeable 6 cyl.
Nr. 1904: Sublime Harmonie Piccolo
Nr. 2399: Danseuses Timbres
Nr. 2400: Sublime Harmonie,
Nr. 6258
Nr. 6260 (?), at any rate a number with 4 digits
This closely-packed orchestral mechanism offers six bells, drum with eight strikers and castanet with six strikers. Note that the cock-plate on the governor bracket has, in addition to the jewel-retaining hole, a close-by oil hole.
Forte Mandoline Piccolo
©MBSI-Collection 1st tune: Bleue Danube
Sublime Harmonie (coin operated)
Sublime Harmonie (Musé Baud, for sale)
12 airs, 10 pouves, 1st: Le premier baiser
Cuendet 3316
Cuendet 35010
Three mandarin automata as strikers for the 6 rack-mounted saucer bells. Each strikes the bells and turns his head with the music, creating a wonderful spectacle. The musical movement also features a drum with 6 beaters, a castanet, a tune indicator on the left hand side, and a zither bar. It is unusual to find the combination of these automata strikers with drum, bell and castanet. The music box plays a selection of 12 popular tunes of the day with an excellent, bright sound. Tunes include Donizetti’s ‘Lucrezia Borga’, Gounod’s ‘Faust’, and ‘Les Cloches de Corneville’, as listed on the original tunesheet. This is housed within a rosewood veneered case with a floral motif inlay to the lid, along with tulipwood banding and boxwood stringing to the lid and front, and gilded side handles.
Cuendet für Nicole 47648
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