Dear MMD-ers,  Let me thank Steve Ryder for his information on this
beautiful "Marie Antoinette" musical tall case clock from the Nemours
Mansion of Wilmington, Delaware, which will join the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City for a temporary exhibition from October 30, 2012,
to January 27, 2013.  This exhibition is called "Extravagant Inventions:
The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens."

  http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/exhibitions/2012/extravagant-inventions 

This masterpiece was restored by Jere Ryder (Steve's brother) and
Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume in 1997.  Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume wrote a complete
article on the restoration of this extraordinary musical organ clock in
the AAIMM journal, <<Musiques Mecaniques Vivantes>>, number 77 (11 pages
with 26 pictures!).

This magazine is still available if you reach the web site of the AAIMM
(Association des Amis des Instruments et de la Musique Mécanique) at

  http://www.aaimm.org/ 

I must say I was very excited when I discovered in Steve's information
that a video of the clock was promised:

  http://www.delawarebeaches.com/videonetwork29/1886675486001 

... and must say that I was very disappointed too when I realised that
we could hear it for five seconds only -- three seconds at the beginning
and two at the end!  So the teasing increases!

Steve informs us that "recordings of the clock from Wilmington and of
two other musical clocks in the exhibition will take place at brief
intervals throughout the day."  No doubt that Roentgen is honored but
Kinzing should not be forgotten.  He made its musical mechanical part
which is an organ and a dulcimer combined.

I am afraid that going to New York City is it the only way to hear it
(I mean to hear a recording of it)?  Does anyone know the way to get
a video of this marvel?

Best wishes from France,

Jean Nimal