Stella 17-Inch Music Box Playing "At A Darktown Cakewalk"
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shave and a haircut 2 bits!
2 years ago 4
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lol thats one awesome piece of machine you got. where did you get it?
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@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?"
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@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.
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This is kick ass! Where'd you get it!?
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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.
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What is darktown? Is that like where all the negroes live?
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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!!!!!
CrashFactory666 2 years ago
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!
MusicBoxBoy 2 years ago