What is this instrument called? Driving me mad!
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I'm trying to remember the name of a mechanical music box. It's a large instrument, not the kind your granny had on her dressing table! It produces a very particular sound, very atmospheric and the only way I can describe it is as if it was playing distantly in a Victorian attic, or in a deserted nursery - kind of tinkly, slightly 'off' and a bit creepy, but very beautiful. I think it's called something-trope, but I might be wrong. Please help!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaiFYSnsp1Q
However, perhaps that's not what you're thinking of at all!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Polyphon-19-5-8-Coin-Operated-upright-model-104-/171094575884?pt=UK_Collectables_Household_RL&hash=item27d6080b0c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6XyQyZ6ODE
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kalliope+music+box&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=9Yf_Uf2EDYTqPLiLgYAF&ved=0CD4QsAQ&biw=1600&bih=790#imgdii=_
Using "upright disk music box" in Youtube brings up quite a number of examples.
Thank you for those, that first one is beautiful.
Thank you very much.
A Theramin ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6KbEnGnymk
Edit: can see I'm barking up the wrong tree with that one. I just like the name!
Whenever I think of anything Gothic and spooky Victorian, I think of this. Played on this contraption.
I LOVE that!
No a Theremin is an early electronic instrument which provides that ghostly wooooo noise (as heard in Good Vibrations by t he Beach Boys and lots of early horror films).