Sale of automatons and androids in our shop: Mozart automaton playing the piano by Jean Farkas.

Lutèce Creations (www.automates-boites-musique.com), the European specialist of music boxes and automatons, offers through its Parisian store and its websites, various antique automatons (from the end of the XIXth century until the first world war) and vintage automatons.
These automatons (also called automata) depict androids (clown automatons, musician automatons, magician automatons etc...), animals (cat automatons, rabbit automatons, bear automatons etc...) or animated scenes with several automatons such as the automatons made by Jean-Pierre Camus or by "L'arbre à pain" (french makers).
The greatest creators of automatons from antique and modern times are represented. For the antique automatons: Vichy, Roullet-Decamps, Renou, Phalibois, Bontems, Lambert etc... and for the modern automatons: Renatto Boaretto, Michel Marcu, Farkas, Jean-Pierre Camus, Latil-Pernot, Michel Bertrand etc...
In this video you can see a traditional automaton created in France by Jean and Anne Farkas: Mozart playing the piano.
Here is the description in our website:
Musical automaton made by Jean and Anne Farkas depicting the young Mozart playing the piano while watching his hands on the keyboard.
This musical automaton in porcelain, was created during the second half of the XXth century and is dressed in rich clothes. It has 6 movements (the head in both directions) and both arms in both directions (right-left and up-down).
This musical automaton contains a swiss musical mechanism (Reuge brand) of 36 notes with two tunes (1 melody by turn of cylinder - lateral displacement of the cylinder).
Melodies of this musical automaton: 2 melodies including The little night music also known "Ein kleine Nachtmusik" (W. A. Mozart).
Who are Jean and Ann Farkas?
Jean Farkas was born in Brest on September 24, 1917. In Paris, he was 14 years old when he learned the art of restoring porcelain and antique objects for antique dealers.
In 1938 he met his future wife Anne and their destinies were linked for over 70 years! One day an antique dealer, Georgette Leroux, asks him to repair a musical automaton. Jean then discovers a world of dreams and imagination from which he will never leave.
That leads then on a first automaton entirely made by him then on several. It is necessary to say that he has near him a "dresser" of first class. Anne, seamstress by trade. Until 1985 they create many automatons that are shared by customers and friends. In addition to their creations, they also restore many old automatons, Anne making marvelous costumes, some even exclusively for a big fashion company of the avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Around 1950, during a craft exhibition, a new meeting will be decisive. It is about Jacques Milet, big collector of toys. They become great friends and during many years, every weekend, they try to find old toys...
It is in 1974, tired of the Parisian life, that they return to their native Brittany. They were lucky enough to discover a thatched cottage for sale in which was born, in 1976, a museum workshop entitled "Reflets du Passé" (Reflections of the past).
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