Barrel Orchestrion - Theodor Behrend Kiel. - Any help??

[jsrid]

Well all, its been a while but here are the videos.

Enjoy!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDmpRz8bdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQTIySr-Lkg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKv611O1bGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5oZosoYBHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-KyhLL7cXY

[ironlord1963]

   That is beyond too cool, thanks for the entertainment jsrid

[waywardangler]

Yes, very neat!  Thanks for sharing.

[KC]

Wow!  Yours is a very beautiful example of this fine piece of history!  Thanks for sharing.

Did you ever find out anything from the museum near you?

[talesofthesevenseas]

Ack I don't have a sound card at work! Gotta wait to play this until I get home!

[wendy177]

Simply amazing!!!!!! 

[regularjoe2]

Thank you so much for returning here to post the links to your vids , jsrid .

If a picture is worth only a thousand words , yours have said alot more about your great piece .

[talesofthesevenseas]

How absolutely charming was that?! Made me want to

[KC]

Okay talesof...give....M akes you want to WHAT???  The suspense is killing me!

[jsrid]

Hi all, thanks for the comments.

I've gone a little slack on the research lately due to doing night shifts at the hospital.

Now that I'm off them, I'm back to procrastinating 

KC; I still haven't had the chance to contact the museum. I was waiting until we managed to get some more info on the actual barrels and see if that provided us with any more information.

That said... does the writing on the barrels mean anything at all to anyone?

I have more footage of the beauty, but they seem to take a couple of hours a piece to get onto youtube, and I think most of the detail is apparent in those 5.

As always, all comments and information greatly appreciated, and thanks for all the help thus far

[KC]

Still need to see what is on the barrels.  That may lend more information that we can research!

[jsrid]

agreed KC,

do you mean better detail images of what is shown on the barrels in the videos? I have the hi res versions on my laptop, I could easily take still frames of the video footage if you think that may help.

Its scary how things change, most of the delay was due to finding media for our Sony camera that was 8 months old, we gave up, bought a samsung camera for a fifth of the cost of the sony, which seems to take better videos 

[KC]

Are there any numbers/markings on the end or sides of the barrel?  Names?

[sapphire]

OK, back at this again.    Hopefully something here will be of help.

http://en.kendincos.net/video-pnjlfnt-orchestrion-eldorado.html

"orchestrion eldorado
Piano-Mandolinen-Zylophon-Orchestrion der Firma Stern/Schwarzwald ca.1900 seit όber 90 Jahren in Familienbesitz in einem Berggasthof/hotel"

Google translation

orchestrion eldorado
Piano-mandolin-Zylophon orchestrion the company star / Black ca.1900 for over 90 years in family ownership in a mountain lodge / hotel

Another ?

http://www.nme.com/awards/video/id/tzwXTNcxr1M/search/orchestrion/offset/40


This guy seems to be very involved in them.....

http://www.patmetheny.com/orchestrioninfo/

http://www.nme.com/awards/video/id/ZecQmGzfv7E/search/orchestrion

Tour dates.......US
http://www.ksmusichalloffame.org/calendar.html

Pat Metheny (The Orchestrion Tour) 2010
    October 2, Louisville , KY – Brown Theater
    October 5, Burlington , VT – Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
    October 7, Princeton , NJ – Matthews Theater , McCarter Theater Center
    October 8, Englewood , NJ – Bergen Performing Arts Center
    October 16, Buffalo , NY – University of Buffalo Center for the Arts
    October 19, Binghampton , NY – Anderson Center for the Arts

[sapphire]

Oops, forgot one ( it's 2:26 am  )  and mine and google's translation skills leave a lot to be desired....so someone please feel free to put this into English!

http://europeana.cimec.ro/detaliu.asp?k=C42AB43AE9C24E33896F9827FBD5772E