200 Year Old Automata Organ Performs a Magic Trick!

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This Barrel Organ with Automata was has 25 programming tracks, 22 tracks for music and 3 tracks for the moving automata figures. One of the figurines even performs a magic trick. This organ was used like a Street Organ but carrried by the organgrinder on the belly and is therefore also called a Belly Organ. Enjoy!
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[@jaydeniemuth9366]

Hello, my name is Jacob Niemuth and my family back in the 1700's used to build organ grinders and invented the trumpet 16 organ grinder. They do bare my family name and I was wondering if any of them are in this museum?

[@jaapverhoeven873]

Got the notification, watched it and enjoyed it! Thanks Lois, Martin and Hannes!

[@Wintergatan]

Thanks You too!

[@michaelmeacham8266]

Lois is the best part of this series!

[@SentinalhMC]

"And it still sounds exactly the same as it did back then." Holy cow that's some good craftsmanship.

[@theorganguy]

her statement isn't precisely true... the song is exactly the same, so are the movements... the sound? not so much... as pipes age the tonality changes; originally these pipes would have sounded probably a bit harsher, they mellowed since. This is also why old pipe organs such as these are additionally tremendously valuable, as one can not simply built pipes to sound "aged", they have to age naturally. Additionally - what the craftsmanship is concerned - these organ builders were indeed amazing; however, for the organ to play as it does now, the folks behind the scenes at the museum, who do all the maintenance are the true heroes... they make sure these instruments keep playing as intended.

[@jtktomb8598]

3:04 as a french, she pronounced "tableau vivant" perfectly !

[@faselblaDer3te]

Finding and subscribing to Wintergatan was one of the best things that happened to my soul, ever.

[@tspaceboy9]

"Can you see the magic trick?" Immediately pans camera AWAY from the magic trick

[@MaciejTrebacz]

It really must've been a treat to see this instrument played live on the street 200 years ago when there was no KZbin, no smartphones and even no gramophones. You were walking down the street and suddenly heard music playing, some figurines moving on their own, and all this enclosed in relatively small music box. It's truly a masterpiece. Thank you Wintergatan for showing this to us.

[@EpreTroll]

Amazing how old this stuff is

[@bruce6391]

Man all of these blow my mind! I'd love to see a diagram or something on how they actually work! You couldn't pay someone to make something like this by hand today

[@ThatReplyGuy]

Wait, so, what's the magic trick? They never explained that.

[@mikorinnchann4066]

That background/outro music,when will you upload ittttt , pleaseeeee

[@Wintergatan]

Oh yes, i have heard its been requested alot, its a scrap song i found and i really dont think the fullength version is OK as it is right now, but we are thinking of maybe releasing the whole background music soundtrack on bandcamp when this series is over and then i will brush the fullength version up and make a proper song out of it! Im building a new music studio in october so that can be a nice first project in the new studio perhaps!

[@mikorinnchann4066]

Wintergatan i dont thinks it a scrap song,its a wonderful song! i keep replying the end of the video just to hear the music 😂 be waiting for that day when you upload it! 😊

[@SaltySalman]

Wintergatan we appreciate that a lot. thanks

[@aoshinn]

I totally get that, I have literally TONS of scraps from a lot of different works and - sometimes - the right job to use them show up.

[@geniew5946]

"Lovely" is the word, I think. Everything about today's video was lovely. :) Thank you!

[@wilsongarnett5015]

Its a miracle that all of the old instruments work and then we get to hear it

[@theorganguy]

it is more thanks to the skill and love of the curators to keep these up to spec

[@amarok5048]

I think I'm in love with this machine. The first time I fell in love with a machine, was with a Modular Moog Synthesizer as realised by Wendy Carlos

[@WouterWeggelaar]

Lois is good at keeping a steady pace! Also, every time I see her last name, I think its an amazingly relevant coincidence. Tonen means tones in Dutch.

[@TheRealVastile]

I want to build one of these and busk with it. I can imagine doing some very fun improv with a crowd and interacting with the animated figures like puppets. Very magical.

[@theorganguy]

yes, you can build them - there is even building plans available. OR - you can buy one! Get in touch and I can direct you towards all the sources...

[@InfinityPotato97]

I seriously love this channel, this is one of my most favourite episode so far. I can't wait for the next monday.

[@BeyReaper]

WOW! This video series and this video in general is so inspiring! This makes me want to go out and build something like this, maybe not an organ, as they require delicate and precise tuning, but maybe something smaller like a harmonica or maybe an ocrarina. Thanks so much for making these videos! If I ever go to the Netherlands I am definatly going to the Speelklok Museum. Hopefully I can meet you too, if not you HAVE to bring your world tour to Dallas. PLEASE!!!

[@rousguillen8072]

Here in Mexico's City there are artists that still play that for money, they are call "organilleros"

[@eloex]

These instruments are awesome! You're lucky you can see and hear them for real! You know what? I'm so in hype for the new marble machine!

[@arothmanmusic]

More close ups next time, please! We want to see the details!

[@ibeyan]

Isn't this the same idea as that ... Oh wait, it is Wintergatan channel.

[@alfhosskin2841]

Wintergatan love you

[@HKMV9]

Pretty neat, ain't it? How neat is that. Very neat.

[@mikaeljovaldy9377]

can you just stop moving the camera around, i really want to see the automata

[@KaityKat117]

I love these automatic instruments. Just the amount of ingenuity that goes into these engineering masterpieces is astounding.

[@heathwellsNZ]

Absolutely want to visit this museum one day!

[@avarisclari]

My friends and I are planning a trip to The Music House, another musical museum, located about 7 hours from here.

[@Blaze22F]

0:00 *Same thing girls say to me in bed*

[@Leboniko]

Frank22 i pay you one giggle sir

[@gabumonboys]

Why is this so perfect

[@TheUAVpilot]

Frank22 , he should have replied, ( Well, it is very cold in here).

[@starlight55971]

Heh

[@billkeithchannel]

ROFLM Big organ O

[@erickhernandez6389]

Some people still play those on the streets of Mexico CIty!

[@michaelsanders9349]

I needed this video 😂 refreshing!

[@Blaze22F]

*Tour guide is cute tbh.*

[@SimplifyTelevision]

Indeed, she's got her own money.

[@TheDlanglois4]

Is she his girlfriend? If she isn't, then she really needs to be

[@revimfadli4666]

I ship them

[@McRocket]

The Tour Guide is neat. Bright (seemingly), pretty, enthusiastic (without sounding phony) and speaks great English.

[@philipschottle9192]

I love it! These machines are so beautiful to see and hear.

[@manemejeff947]

hey Wintergatan, I know you probably won't read this lol but just want to say I love your channel and videos. I'm always watching them! so hyped for Marble Machine X! have a nice day :-)

[@lolabooms]

This channel is such a window to inspiration, great job Martin.

[@jeminuz]

Lois

[@ace-o-spuds4255]

I used to hate Mondays

[@PrinceWesterburg]

The past has left such beautiful things and thankfully, until the invention of optane memory recently, it meant our worthless time would leave no trace being the digital dark ages.

[@Sonja_Rasmus]

I love the little automatons

[@samuel_excels]

Time to build some automata figures for your new marble machine!

[@jackmcslay]

Anyone else immediately thought of one of those playing the song of storms?

[@NielsNL68]

@wintergatan, first thanks for showing al those cool music machines. Amasing what people where able to build back in the 1800. Just one question, did she really said that those machines where rented out?

[@acoffeewithsatan]

These were used by street artists, just imagine how much one would cost, it would be almost like nowadays a street artist buying a Ferrari as an entertainment item to make a few bucks a day. Such artists never really make that much money to afford such thing, it makes sense some luthiers built these for a living and rented them for the folks using them to entertain pass-bys.

[@Samwyzh]

So if an organ grinder is a part time butcher and plays one of these on his belly, does that mean he is an organ grinder who grinds organs, and sometimes he has organs on both sides of his belly? The English language is strange.

[@billkeithchannel]

In today's modern age an _organ grinder_ is a lewd act on a dance floor.

[@thishappened3685]

Well if you like organs come to waldkirch. We don't bite ;)

[@vnllsss]

Thank you! The music machine mondays have caught my interest for such masterpieces. I am definetely going to visit the Speelklock Museum once :)

[@birb-morphergames7437]

What is the music played throughout the video and at the end?? I just want to know!

[@flytsokotly2006]

Amaizing quality of content. It is very interesting! Waiting for your new marbell machine realise. Wish you success!

[@Viviantoga]

I bet that magician's using tampered dice! I see through his lies!

[@facelessmusicdiary]

nowadays most of us grew up in a time in which it's normal that objects can make sounds. It's a pity that mechanical things like barrel organs lose their magic thereby... when I was young and saw a barrel organ in the streets, it was nice but no highlight anymore, and I never asked myself how it works. Some things can only be appreciated when you're older and feel the magic again ;) yes, this time it's the other way round...

[@esa062]

Wow. Just imagine the skill and work hours that went to making that. Lois has a great job :-)

[@powderphysics]

I adore old technology. The modern digital way is so simple and boring. The skill and techniques they replaced were utterly phenomenal, even more so considering the manufacturing at the time

[@suchnothing]

Everyone who is tuning into Music Machine Mondays needs to watch the movie Clockwork Dreams, you'll all love it. Just be sure to give yourself time to get used to the way too extra narrator/presenter. Last I checked someone had uploaded it to KZbin, but it's also on Curiosity Stream if you happen to subscribe to it.

[@fridgemagnet]

a paper midi file ;-)

[@shaunirwin4129]

How did the magic trick work? I see the dice appear under the cone but where did it come from?

[@Wintergatan]

I actually do not know, and if you look closely right afterwards, in the second camera the dice changes shape and form before disappearing!

[@shaunirwin4129]

Wintergatan oh wow it does too, and it looks like an apple appears under the other cone after that (I think). I really like these videos you have been doing, the instruments are so fascinating.

[@loupthevenin8176]

A magnet, mechanically moved up and down inside the table, and a weaker one inside the cone? Maybe a very light dice would be able to climb back up in the cone when the magnet in the table is too far down to have an influence? The shape changing to a taller dice at 4:24 would be it rotating to its side when the cone approaches (dice seems elongated when looking at 4:16). That's my best guess :) Such an awesome machine!

[@octuplex]

Wintergatan Something designed to be carried around all day can't be too mechanically complex or else it would be at risk of breaking and very difficult to fix. The magnet theory is the best one, but if the objects really are changing, then I can't begin to imagine what trick they used to make it work so consistently. I wish we could have seen it in more detail.

[@magemagenmoinen3424]

I think there is some kind of a conveyor belt mechanism in the table 🙂 looks like it has a sequence of [nothing - nothing - dice - apple], looping over and over, counter-clockwise.

[@moog38yearsagoupdated1mont9]

Belly Organ on Penn & Teller Fool Us!

[@michalkleszcz]

nice lady

[@woodenpotato7550]

I think wintergatan and the museum worker are starting to like each other

[@anyludoyle5892]

Sweden has brought us great things, examples are ghost b.c., wintergatan, and amazing music in general! Keep up the amazing work wintergatan! Hope to see you on your tour!

[@stonedsavage7814]

wow you have mastered making these mechanical instrument video's and i am so happy to see other people enjoying it too. i have not witnessed a Wurlitzer band organ yet and those band organs never fail to put a smile on my face

[@jaxnean2663]

The sounds of these organs is so mesmerizing!

[@DeepSpace.]

Thank you that pleases us with new interesting details. We are looking forward to the new videos, including the details of your music machine.

[@tokojose8774]

As me and my dear Adam Savage always say: "If it's worth doing it, it's worth overdoing it" Also if you come to Brazil I will DEFINITELY show up

[@bradymadison9377]

Could you please make a video that goes more in depth on the Modulin.

[@KentuckyRanger]

Awesome! Wish you could have recorded more of the first organ.

[@allannunez9464]

first hello wintergatan

[@Wintergatan]

Hello Soledad! Martin

[@allannunez9464]

Ah, It's Martin. Hello.

[@Wintergatan]

Hola!

[@allannunez9464]

Hej!

[@angryvix]

Lois

[@atomikmeanmachine]

Whats the Musik in the Backround?

[@2003z440]

What exactly was the magic trick? The dice would disappear?

[@ThisIsTeeKay]

The kerning makes me sad :(

[@evalorr_dolphin]

wintergatan, may I know what's the ending song that is played? I like it alot!!

[@MiikaKontio]

Hey Martin, what is your intro music called in these videos? Is it available as a full song?

[@kehlerames218]

Loving this seres. So happy you decided to make it.

[@legaldrumprogrammer1685]

such an informative channel. keep making great contents and more power Wintergatan

[@mateocruz879]

By the way hi Martin

[@arskalasi7692]

This video is good!😀

[@DEO777]

3:08 X-rated material may not be suitable for all viewers

[@viperite]

what a beautiful instrument!

[@sametyetimoglu6026]

Is it fun in the netherlands? Btw i live in the netherlands

[@AwesomeBilly3]

@wintergatan what's the background music in the video I love how it changes from techno to classical I wanna download it soo bad! Plz tell

[@AwesomeBilly3]

Kyodere ok cool

[@MeepMu]

You should play Black MIDI on it

[@alexkirwan7146]

love your work. please come to Australia

[@Wintergatan]

Thanks, We definitely have to go there for the tour! i have never been there, hope to see you in the future then/ M

[@alexkirwan7146]

Would be great to see you live. so unique, we don't have music like yours down under

[@BobOgden1]

Wintergatan yes please, it would be great to see you in Australia. What a great little organ you have shared with us today, such a jewel like beauty. I wish there were more time to spend on the details but I appreciate your time that you give already so I shouldn't grumble 😃. Looking forward to the build video

[@leonboerkamp3090]

Keep going Martin👍

[@God-CDXX]

3 keys to operate the figures cool

[@mai_5055]

Can someone explain me, how this trick works? Is there magnet..propably not

[@billkeithchannel]

Smoke and mirrors. lol.

[@theorganguy]

entirely mechanical; details would be hard to describe, but in essence the "table" has concealed openings under the cups and a variety of inserts are swapped out from inside the table thru mechanical means

[@chrisschradieck687]

thank you for doing this series, i would love to go to this museum in person, but this series is the closest i'll get for a long time

[@OscarScheepstra_Artemis_]

As usual, another lovely video!

[@Nacanaca12]

Thank you so much for sharing these videos with us! I live in America, so I may never get the chance to travel and see these wonderful musical machines in person. Thank you so much for brightening my day with your Music Machine Mondays.

[@theorganguy]

there are museums like this even in the US

[@Nacanaca12]

I've been to some interesting museums here before, but as a college student my options are a bit limited now. It's nice to be able to see cool stuff that fits into my study-packed schedule.

[@theorganguy]

If you ever manage to... try to get to Sanfilippos in Barrington, IL... every way as good as the Speelklok museum in Utrecht

[@expydoothegreat]

Woah I'm early!

[@DieZockerZone1]

german engineering :D

[@ChipMoody]

Visiting Utrecht in November - *must* visit this museum!!!

[@PulverfassProduction]

lol i live like 5mins away from where this was build(waldkirch)

[@Wintergatan]

cool, no clue if i got close with the pronunciation though

[@PulverfassProduction]

Wintergatan you said it pretty damn well 👌

[@TheDlanglois4]

You both would make the cutest couple in the world please start dating each other :)

[@htmagic]

35 - 40 kg? That's a LOT of strain on the neck! Up to 88 pounds! The magic trick was cool!

[@Deveusz]

wintergatan, heart plz

[@Wintergatan]

happy you like it !

[@Deveusz]

I like to get hearts from him, it makes me smile anyway :D! I like his videos, they're cool, I'm waiting for Marble machine X

[@Deveusz]

Anyway my dream is get an autograph from you :0

[@riphunter1569]

I'm so happy to see a new episode! Thanks Wintergatan for your wonderful work!

[@rethla]

I dont need to imagine the amazement of people seeing and hearing this in 1800 because its still just as impressive ;)

[@thelambdafunction]

It would be extremely cool to see and hear one of the bigger mechanical orchestras play "All was well"

[@acpllc3]

Seriously.... put this kind stuff into a BBC special, or a series!