Joueuse de Tympanon - automate

[DuneDemon8]

Syberia the game :)

[Tutankhsunamun]

No matter how many times I watch this, I am still impressed! I'd Love to have something like her as my own one day...or even be skilled enough to create a replica! Magnificent!

[1900maggie]

now this is truly a work of art.

[jeansonne100]

i was unaware craftsmanship like this existed until today

[electronic4evr]

Wow!! She is better than most toys sold now..... How much did she cost?

[SuicideSeattle]

@electronic4evr She was a present to the last Queen of France I believe so she would have cost alot to buy right now.

[emoth100]

This is from the 18th century?! Incredible piece of work, I love the song she plays, she's beautiful!

[ilovechocolait]

Amazing *0* and it's from the 18th century :O Unbelievable!

[MrShaun42088]

omg... that is way better than any of today's musicboxes! ..... how amazing!

[IsaraiLee]

So that's what's up women's skirts

[LIANG14]

Tuningggg

[mitri10inches]

Truly the period of fine art in all things. The French are such leaders and masters of art and style. My favorite period which is so beautifully represented by this masterpiece of craftsmanship!

[keithosmarferrer]

it's more modern than our current humanoids!! it's an ART I tells ye!!!! an ART!!

[Stereotest]

Not sure why, but this makes me sad for some reason.

Great music, though!

[Wolfen443]

@Stereotest, because is a reminder of a lost world. Once great music & art existed but were destroyed by human incompetence running society in the case of the French Monarchy. Maybe it makes you sad because Marie's life relates to is sad music.Then there is the art of creating something special not practical. Most robots we will ever create will serve the purpose of doing something manual. We will never achive something like this again (at least until Data of ST).

[xenigirl]

@Wolfen443 I think the Animatronics at amusement parks serve a similar function. They just seem less wondrous to us because we're so used to them.

[Miseritor]

PLAY PARANOID!

[1957pinup]

FREEBIRD

[ELcapalla2]

This is sooo Awesome!!!

[HinataFan1111]

Screw Cracked. This is fuckinga mazng!

[Breathlless]

What is the name of this song?? it's so beautiful!!

[sheadatear]

Oh, how I would love to turn the key to such a masterpiece. . .

[ACluelessKid]

It's amazing how a lot of early robots look and act so much better than even todays modern robots.

[ed021493]

when it moved the eyes I was scared o_O

[alkalinecuban]

1:32 gave me chills this is a really good song

[alkalinecuban]

Is this part of an actual song or was it made simply for the machine?

[carikittygeek]

Now I want a musical mechanical mini me.

[TheHornet79]

sounds like a Banjo

[TheSuperSmashBrother]

Thanks to this video, I can never be scared by anything ever again...

[AnOverdoseofZac]

what instrument is that?

[sheadatear]

@AnOverdoseofZac It's a dulcimer! Her name roughly translates to 'the player of the dulcimer' (or 'the dulcimer player').

[Celticswynd]

I can't believe they are handling the dress with bare hands when they lift it up. Even if it's not the original fabric, it's still quite old. Handling such fragile artifacts with your bare hands can speed up deterioration!

[Lulzman69]

Clockpunk rules.

[RioEllington]

Such fluid movement! Had I not known I would've thought about a minute in I was looking at a human playing.

[Yoachan]

Quel instrument de musique et la chanson est-elle jouer?

[Cazxiro]

That song. Me gusta.

[LathrineJadehawk]

Aagh that one dislike was me. I was aiming to Fav it and didn't have my mouse over quite far enough. Definitely don't dislike this; It's beautiful, in an eerie, haunting sort of way.

[doctoryarn]

1:45 OH JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVEN SHES LOOKING AT ME!

[BalmungSama0]

@doctoryarn WTF HER EYES MOVE?!

[jorgeandresmoncayo]

scary!!

[damarul]

neato

[javoman13]

chido.

[SakkidattaHydra]

She sounds lonely.....

:c

[wolfhomme]

First time I see this Unique Item. Thanks for Sharing. *****

[TheStraatjutter]

best toy ever

[maxmadx]

hello

[rtuinstra]

SOOOO much better than clusterbombs or claymore mines !!

[saladiste]

Je suis automatonophobe, j'ai regardé cette vidéo en prenant le risque de faire une crise toute seule devant mon écran et c'est la première fois de ma vie que je trouve un automate beau et qu'il ne me fait pas peur :-)

[adam198315]

oi, can you think what our new dolls will look like in 230 years oh my i love the quality and they were works of art anyone at that time could get amazing love it all;

[lozzic]

Thanks for uploading this video! Does anybody know what piece of music it is that the automaton plays in this video?

[rich21421]

Amaizing! I have myself an automate from the XVII century, a little magician that makes objets apear and disappear from a table. I've been trying to find out if there are buyers for this type of antiquities, does anyone know were can a get information as to sell it?

Cheers

[vasodeath]

@rich21421 ¿Eres de México?¿En serio tienes un automata?,¿podrias subir algun video? jajaja,en la Cd.de México he visto muchos anticuarios.hasta hay algun museo del juguete,igual a ellos podrias venderselo,si yo tubiera dinero te lo compraba,pero no tengo dinero

Saludos ojala subas algun video

[sazuist]

Wow amazing! I want this doll!

[Geeeeoheffeff]

If only they had continued to listen to fellows like Jaquet-Droz and Babbage!

[kimeru1]

wow! the doll itself is like a real live being while playing that tune, so amazing and beautiful.

[NekoCat86]

Such a beautiful creation.....

[bobbie4]

Quite amazing for something that is now 238 years old.

[CrimsonandCloves]

Beautiful.

[oberek92]

nice ! the hammers falling down on the strings make the music - one could have thought the pins on the big wheel shown at the beginning would generate the sound as done usually.

[Floweryapron]

beautiful.

[MechanicalSculptor]

Absolutely remarkable! What amazes me most is the subtle gestures, as I am familiar with the complicated mechanics that it would have involved to include them. A true work of love and art!

[imtweetydiva29]

Great video. Robert Houdin is one of my favorite magicians.I have fell in love with these magnificent mechanisims(automatons) as I learn more about these fascinating automatons.

[CreepyDollsArtbook]

*_* <3

[fallchild81]

this is just so beautiful..i have been learning more on the history of automatons..this is exquisite..:)

[ClockworkOlive]

kinda creepy...

[galapagosecuador]

Que bonito!!!!!!!!!

[philoinfo]

Absolutely amazing! And the little detail of the elegant head movement! And movement is rather smooth! WOW!

[AleezaChocolat]

It's absolutely amazing to me that this isn't some 21st century, advanced little robot . . . but rather something that was made in 1772! It's movements are quite fluid (and the little gestures, like the head moving, etc., are eerie in their lifelike way), the song so pretty and delicate, the figure itself stunning. WOW. The 18th century, huh? Hard to believe. XD

[TheXand19]

@AleezaChocolat Check out something called the Antikythera mechanism, incredible clockwork machine from circa 150 BC.

[megapraimturvo]

incredible!!!!!......so amazing...what a beautiful creation....5 stars!!!

[TheChaoStreet]

Hermoso. *-*

[darksandra666]

asombroso, arte en su mas puro stilo,me gustaria saber ¿¿¿como se llama la pieza q toca...???!!!!

[zigfrid66]

L'ancêtre du séquenceur !

Fascinant.

[MariChan93]

E' bellissimo! Mi chiedo come potessero davvero creare robot di questo calibro nel 1700...

[narichannn]

E' la cosa più inquietante che abbia mai visto...

[Spiritree41]

Amazing ! ! !

[verzahaku]

Notevole...!

[droz79]

Mi automata favorito,una pieza maravillosa,una de las muchas cumbres del espíritu humano,belleza,ingenio,sensibi­lidad y MUSICA!!nada que ver con casi toda la broza que nos rodea en la actualidad...en fin...

[ilovepuroland]

BEAUTIFUL! I wish I owned it!

[sharlene07]

whoever abandoned this is pretty stupid!! mikey84 is right.. it is art

[madaraluka93]

@sharlene07 It's not stupid if you are chased away by a revolution... :/

[Mikey84]

This is what I call art :)

Someone should tune the strings, though...

[sollidsnake1]

automaton are amazing mechines and its hard to belive that is was made a long time ago imagine what we can make of it now with all the stuff we have now!

[turtlegurllie13]

that is pretty amazing for the 1700s!

i cant believe though that it was abandoned at one point

[jmm1233]

i want one of them :)

[Agotaku]

Beautiful ;-;

[Agotaku]

The song have a name? o.o

[djoulsdrummer93]

putin un truc comme ça chez moi jfairai des cauchemar serieu, c chelou davoir reprodui lautomate ça fai comme si on avai empaillé quelqun....

[inspirationmagnus]

Exelente piece, of a spectacular art I have infinitely appreciable

[dulcajack]

Beautiful and awe inspiring.

Thanks for posting.

Jack

[HartfordTommy]

DudleyM below: Yes, you'd think so. OTOH, such a tiny instrument is difficult to get into,and keep in fine tune. Also, some or all of the clinkers are almost surely (to my ear, and I confess, I'm guessing by logic)mis-strikes of adjacent strings--not gross mal-tuning. Another thing that would clean it up greatly, would be if the strikes did not double, bah-bup (hammer bounce). I'd think that's a matter of fine adjustment. My opinions, these.

[HartfordTommy]

OK, so "tympanon" is the French word for hammered dulcimer.

It is a percussion instrument with far more in common with the piano than with the harpsichord, yes?

Now, the clavichord looks much the same as a harpsichord, but, while it is percussive, it's no piano-a clavichord was and is an amazingly delicate, expressive thing. I enjoyed this debate. We're both right.

[HartfordTommy]

see the wikipedia (english) for the entry, "tympanon".

It's French for what we called then and now, "hammered dulcimer." No matter that this form of the French is elegant in the extreme, in English, it is a dulcimer, it is percussive, too, as both names denote.

I have not studied these things for almost thirty years. So to be sure, I looked up in the Wikipedia.

I'm a retired concert piano tech and former conservator of ancient instruments of a private collection.

[HartfordTommy]

herman below, my responses are, unfortunately, in reverse order, 3, 2, 1.

You stated emphatically: "Is not the predecessor of piano nor harpsichord."

It is, most assuredly, the ancestor of both, and of the clavichord as well. The clavichord: it was as quiet as a mouse, and so delicate. And so it passed away in time. But quite a wonderful sound of full dynamic range: whisper to sotto voce, requiring a clavichordist's touch to even play at all.

[DudleyMMoore]

Dear god, next time, a FULLY restored unit would have its strings in tune? Absolutly amazing bit of history in Automate.

[KThompson2006]

is that a real instrument? whats it called

[HartfordTommy]

It's called in English, a hammered dulcimer.

This is a true percussion instrument, the predecessor of the piano, which is the same as you see here, but with automatic ally tripped hammers via keys.

This instrument (made in a full range of sizes) offered -dynamic- control, as did the piano (1708), unlike the "monotone" of the harpsichord.

[hermanopaz]

No... absolutely not.. it's name is not Hammered Dulcimer, but "Tympanon" (La Joueuse de Tympanon means: The Tympanon Player). Is not the predecessor of piano nor harpsichord. In fact... if you search youtube with the word: Tympanon, you'll see an actual tympanon.

[hermanopaz]

No... absolutely not.. it's name is not Hammered Dulcimer, but "Tympanon" (La Joueuse de Tympanon means: The Tympanon Player). Is not the predecessor of piano nor harpsichord. In fact... if you search youtube with the word: Tympanon, you'll see an actual tympanon.

[JHVH1]

Its the same thing. This is from the smithsonian:

"The hammered dulcimer probably originated in the Middle East about 900 A.D. and is related to the much older psaltery. It spread from there across North Africa and was brought into Europe by the Spanish Moors during the 12th century A.D. It is possible that hammered dulcimers were played even earlier than this in Ireland, where they were called 'tympanons.'"

[snotrocketeer]

holey moley - even the eyes moved! She peeked at us out of the corner of her eye!

CREEPY yet cool.... helloooo uncanny valley

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[shaunathansprocket]

who has to die for me to aquire this fine object of pre-steampunkery.

[mothberries]

Oh my God, I would LOVE to have a replica of that!

[richragsdale]

beautiful

[eltunz]

C'est magnifique! Où peut-on trouver le DVD?

[mandrake75]

Hi Hi ... ;-) En fait la réponse se trouve à la fin du clip... ;-)

[CocteauTwinsAddict]

Merci pour cela! Thanks for sharing that beautifully disquieting video. She survived, but Marie Antoinette did not...