Bibelregal - Musikmuseet tester

[@baxter5431]

Wonderful! Who needs 21st Century digitalization when there's 16th Century brilliance? What a great design & sound! Thanks for this demonstration.

[@willemkossen]

I think these instruments should be made again. There is definitely a market. I'ld love to have one!

[@nicholaslittle2312]

It's so lovely the way it packs into a large book. Essential it is like the Hohner Melodica. I really love that medieval sound! Thank you for sharing.

[@penfold7800]

Brilliant. Excellent engineering went in to this to make it so portable. You could even hide it in a bookshelf!

[@twokool4skool129]

Portability with this is important. After you play, you need to be able to pack quickly because the locals chase you out of town!

[@kermitefrog64]

This is a neat looking instrument. I have never seen this before.

[@AerialTheShamen]

Transformer! - from Bible to pipe organ... This is really the craziest and most clever little organ ever seen. Despite "Bibelregal" came much earlier than the accordion, it has real keys (not buttons), and so was basically the world first ultra-portable keyboard. Even the somewhat complicated setup of the collapsible contraption is exciting to watch. Finally revealing the bellows in the book cover completing the thing is a fun moment (like a stage prop created for a vaudeville or magic show), and then the unexpected polyphonic medieval timbre it it plays (while despite tiny size depending on a helper for the bellows) makes this truly awesome. I love it. The need of bellow helper and 2 external weights hint how unoptimized the invention still was. Simply adding 2 ropes with foot nooses running over e.g. a high rim under the table would have permitted the organist to pump the bellows by himself (like a modern harmonium). The museum should definitely x-ray this instrument in a CAT scanner to publish detailed blueprints for replicating the device. This ingenious invention is as brilliant and historically important as the first watch by Peter Henlein, and deserves to be copied and played again by musicians.

[@УзеирМамедов-п6л]

I believe they made plans of it. I am here to understand is this is that regal

[@nicholaslittle2312]

Look Mum No Computer could rebuild and modify to work with a midi controller 😅

[@bkarosi]

I would love to buy one!

[@joshtaylor485]

it was really neat to see a full instrument to be packaged together in such a small box

[@MortenNilsen-i2g]

I'd like one of these for Christmas, please! 😎

[@nicholaslittle2312]

🎉

[@dbadagna]

Is there a video on the Internet where we could see what the reeds look like, and how they work?

[@lucym5163]

Incredible design for any era! And to think it survived too.

[@blipblip88]

LOVELY!! More More More!!!!! Bravo!! Please post more music on this! Wonderful!!

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

This is the precursor of the Harmonium.

[@SoggySandwich80]

Il pay more attention to antique boxes when I go to Antique stores, very unlikely Il find one but now I know what to look for

[@bifeldman]

Well, that’s something different.

[@jordanstark3327]

The regal lives up to its name!!!!

[@thomasciul8932]

What nasty noisy instrument. I just love it!

[@klemeneler7986]

Would be great to have it sampled for Hauptwerk software!

[@allialias]

My Grandfather had one of these circa 1970. He said he thought it was for going under pipe organs and tuning them. He thought the pipes attached to the large organ. Wish we had known.

[@samuelecannicci8983]

Hi, you have the plane of costruction of this regal organ?

[@walterdonatiello6734]

Stupenda

[@hjgk4568]

Bescheidener Klang.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Mind-blowing! Well done!

[@AnqiCui]

Can we find it anywhere to buy?

[@dingomusiktheater]

Is this somewhere available? Very interesting and funny instrument!

[@diomedesrosaspon3154]

Wonderfull, congratulations from Argentina.

[@SYLVESTRIVS]

NOSSA! Eu amei este instrumento, muito bonito, adorei a maneira como foi feito =P

[@halcyonzenith4411]

It sounds like a car horn trying out for the choir

[@ediwansilva7761]

great!

[@tymime]

Some assembly required.

[@Devta108]

😊👍🏼🎹🎹🎹🎼🎵🎶

[@goldeneggduck]

Marvellous!

[@RosssRoyce]

Amazing!

[@EricLeiserArtist00]

nice

[@cartapax5077]

Somehow gonna build me one.. but with the c#

[@jackhousman6637]

I want one!

[@Sublibrarian11918333]

I would prefer a Jupiter Bayan.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@UCZKCPut9Chv_Py_fqBYaz8A There should be a version with up to 108 Keys for us Pianists (C0 to B8) that actually runs on a motor operated fan which I call the Electric Beluga Bibelregal.

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

Is this not really a portable harmonium?

[@shiningarmor2838]

The reeds are beating, which makes it a regal

[@Mrs.Karen_Walker]

hamonium is not related to the regal.

[@mateuszg.1790]

kto z elekcji

[@toolguy6534]

I don't see where the pipes/reeds are.

[@bendeguznemes9871]

Under the keys.

[@OTOss8]

I mean this is cool 'n all but it ain't no apfelregal.

[@therealzilch]

Besser als eine echte Bibel allentfalls.

[@therealzilch]

Regals: yes. Bible: no.

[@twokool4skool129]

That thing sounds awful.

[@bendeguznemes9871]

It's sounds like regal....

[@joseroldan1389]

Amazing!!!