Stella 17-Inch Music Box Playing "At A Darktown Cakewalk"

[superzodiac1000]

lol thats one awesome piece of machine you got. where did you get it?

[JuuhachigouSama]

This is kick ass! Where'd you get it!?

[CrashFactory666]

Its amazing to see all the beautiful and unique ways humans have come up with to project music. That is one awesome machine, you must be proud!!!!!

[MusicBoxBoy]

Thank you for your gracious comments! I have always appreciated these early music machines and the delightful sounds that they still produce after more than one hundred years. These machines represent a refreshing testament to the quality and workmanship of that period. Thanks for stopping in for a visit!

[telesniper2]

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[telesniper2]

What is darktown? Is that like where all the negroes live?

[telesniper2]

Followup: that IS what it is referring to! I just read up on cakewalks, and they were largely a black thing in the late 19th century.

[Kirke182]

@telesniper2 Cakewalks as musical pieces were white. The dance was devised by blacks as a way of mocking the way white people danced. All the written cakewalks were written by white composers--especially Kerry Mills, J. Bodewalt Lampe and Abe Holzmann. The Joplin-Marshall piece "Swipesy Cakewalk" is an exception although a lot of musicologists don't consider it a cakewalk.

[Kirke182]

@telesniper2 Darktown was an imaginary black section of a given town. It was sort of the Polack joke of its time. "How many Polacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" would have been phrased instead "How do they screw in a lightbulb in darktown?"

[JohnnyDandMe55]

shave and a haircut 2 bits!

[brenan6]

the resonance of this, the tone, the ethereal drone is just unbelievably beautiful. can you perhaps record this using high end audio recording equipment? this is so pretty!!!

[brenan6]

Holy shit thats beautiful