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Swiss Orchestra Music Box With Chinese Music
By Jochen Schäfer

Hello all on MMD, today I uploaded to YouTube a new video from my
collection, this time presenting a Swiss cylinder orchestra music box
with additional 3 bells, a drum, a castanette and 10 reed organ voices,
made in the 1880s by Barnett Henry Abrahams in Ste. Croix, and playing
6 Chinese tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byo398neWiU
Attachment thumbnail The 5th tune, "She pah moh", was used by Puccini in his opera "Madama Butterfly" from 1904. This music box I got at the Rüdesheim weekend in freshly restored condition -- and I am proud to have it now! Enjoy! With the best collector's regards from Marburg/Germany, Jochen Schäfer, a.k.a. Jochen Kopf

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Key Words in Subject:  Box, Chinese, Music, Orchestra, Swiss

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