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The musical clock (name used in Spain by the dictionary definition Spanish Royal Academy ), popularly known in the Hispanic world as ” musical clock “is a clock type generally provided with pendulum and gong , which is characterized by having an opening through which, every half hour, get a controller shaped bird that usually resembles a musical and that this makes a song, which sounds resemble the onomatopoeia ‘musical’. The mechanism for producing this sound was installed in most musical clocks in the eighteenth century and has remained to this day almost unchanged.
In Germany and Switzerland are manufactured traditional musical clocks where there are dozens of small and medium companies that produce watches, or some components. Most of these companies are located in handcrafted Black Forest . In Switzerland there are only a manufacturer, but the musical clock was not invented in Switzerland.
The mechanical musical clocks have two types of machines: a day and eight days. In watches equipped with the first type of machinery must climb the weights-of-cast iron once a day, in the second once a week. It should be noted that most musical clocks manufactured today use the weight system, few work by rope.
There musical clocks with music box Swiss, listening to a melody to give the hours and half hours. Usually, in the eight days the music sounds only to strike the hours and the day the melody is heard both the hour and the half.
Also manufactured quartz musical clocks that run on batteries. Both the musical and the weights and hands are plastic and the sound of the bird is produced by the traditional bellows and flutes, but by a real singing prerecorded sound of the musical, which is issued to the hour and not the averages. Nor has the characteristic gong or a staff of mechanical watches. A unique feature in this kind of watches is that they come equipped with a light sensor, by which to be done at night or turning off lights musical automatically mutes.
About the largest musical clocks in the world, there are four in the Black Forest of Germany : in Höllsteig ( Breitnau ) Niederwasser ( Hornberg ), Schonach and Schonachbach (near Triberg ). In the center of the German one is on Thale (which also drew up “the musical clock world’s largest chocolate” in 2006) and finally in the west there are two: Sankt Goar and Wiesbaden . recently in the city of Olavarria , (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) opened public musical clock tower which is the highest to date among all besides having two PLCs with how musical bird or musical.
It is currently being manufactured musical clocks certain decorative styles inspired by contemporary, both in Germany and in other countries, especially in Italy . These modern watches are characterized by a functionalist design, minimalist and schematic.
During the Victorian era to the 20’s and according to the decorative tastes prevailing in each moment, when the bourgeoisie began to buy watches with boxes of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Biedermeier (some models also included a painting of a person or animal eyes moving from side to side), modernist, etc.., also began to make musical clocks based on the above styles. This kind of musical clocks from the Black Forest, based on both architectural styles in interior decorative styles, could be desktop or wall and are rarer than many style Bahnhäusle and its derivatives.
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