Blue Danube Waltz Played On 1898 Olympia 15 3/4 Inch Music Box - Johann Strauss Composer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ม.ค. 2012
- Here is our 1898 Olympia 15 3/4 inch Music Box playing the lovely Blue Danube Waltz from 1866 by Johann Strauss. This music box is completely original and has never been restored by anyone - including me. I hope you enjoy this version of Blue Danube Waltz on the Olympia music box here and continue to enjoy my earlier videos of the same tune played on our other disc music boxes. As always, thanks for stopping in for a visit.
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In a world where so much music is available to us with a mere swipe of a finger, it is hard to imagine how wonderfully special it would have been to bring music to your very own home.
Truly, we are spoiled now, at least in that regard.
Yes, I agree with you, but just imagine this 100 years before, about the time of the music box's first crude prototypes. It would have been magical. 200 years before that, it would have been witchcraft.
agreed, we are spoiled, to hear a band's instrument and voices as if there were here next to us... but this? the fact that we have heard THIS... *this* is truly a gift, in that it still exists for us to be able to hear it.
We are spoiled in every regard. The only thing holding us back from total fulfillment is our own unwillingness to see life beyond all our spoils. To learn that all that we have spoiled ourselves with, are not the things giving us fulfillment.
We are spoiled in many many ways.
@@1PITIFULDUDE; They have been making some type of music since the beginning of time, and have had music boxes for hundreds of years. Not everyone was tied to the ignorance of the domineering church.
Feels like I am 5 years old, waiting in line to ride in a carousel at the carnival in 1902.
Love this comment
That's where I recognized this song from!
Very old carousels.
Which means you're now 124 years old.
@@magmatri-studios you should check out the sung version: type in: an der schönen blauen Donau: th-cam.com/video/-kfOs0N_LY4/w-d-xo.html
@@magmatri-studios its not a song ffs :(
To give you an idea of how old this thing:
China was called the Qing Empire
Turkey was called the Ottoman Empire
30 years ago, Germany was like 30 different countries.
@@loam6740 lol that person has no idea why they have that opinion.
@Loam it's not necessarily racist, you should think about it more before you jump to conclusions like that
@Loam how is wanting a country to lose its power inherently racist in any way?
@@loam6740 i dont see how hes putting one race on top of another. look at the context before accusing him.
@@normal_media Maybe its government, sure. Let's go ahead and leave the Chinese population alone though.
I wished there was an 1800's version of "How It's Made". Things like this from back then amazes me. People invented and manufactured some amazing stuff.
First, the concept of how to do it was brilliant. But equally incredible is the delicacy of the elements and the perfection of the pin placements. They can't be almost in the right place.
My god don't give people ideas. Disassembling such masterpieces should be a crime.
@@criticalhard I wasn't suggesting that, but I do agree with you 100%.
Nevertheless - it woud be very interesting to learn how these devices work - and work so beautifully.
@@criticalhard the only way to figure that out is to disassemble it.
The craftsmanship is just miraculous.
@Razor Face That’s highly debatable....
@Razor Face I'm 40. While I love technology, I think most of us were happier when we were not addicted to cell phones and the Internet. Also, things like watching a movie and listening to music was much more special before streaming and mp3s. It's sad that today's kids will never experience things like going to a store and buy a new record from their favorite band.
@Razor Face There is a difference between craftsmanship and engineering, I think you are not distinguishing between the two if you think todays craftsmanship is better.
@Razor Face 100 years from now someone else will look at our digital MP3s and say the same thing. It's all relative perspective. The craftsmanship in this music box is gorgeous and was likely revolutionary in 1898. There's no artistic value inherent in an MP3.
@Razor Face You‘re awfully agressive for someone so happy to be alive "RIGHT NOW" 😆 I pictured you typing that while seething
Sounds like the music on the elevator that takes you to Heaven
Or when heaven puts you on hold when you call to see why you're stuck on the 250th floor
It has the same sound as a celesta....
@@dbsirius Haha, God says: Oh my son, soon will be repaired. And then you have to wait, listening to this. And then, they recieve you in heaven with Everybody from the Backstreet Boys
are you dead?
@@tunk_2ton168 I was
the guy who owned this box gave the best parties in their time
Ah yes my rrrefined fellow, let us begin to indulge ourselves in our music box's sweet melodies, for we are having a
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@@cessnafun5385 aight :I
Gosh, just discovering this in 2021. What a beautiful machine and magical melody. My great granny had one of these and every Saturday night the relatives and neighbors would gather at their house to listen to the 5 "records" and dance. What a time to be alive.
That sounds wonderful, very lucky
What fun that would have been! Wonderful memories and an opportunity to reactivate family traditions.
i am a big fan of music boxes and carousels; this was pure joy to see and to hear, eased all of my stress away, really it has ! Thank you !
you would love bach harpichord music or not?
If you eat a music box you will never be stressed again, really it will
Same
_Strauss_ erased your _stress_
Какой раритет!! 120 лет назад его слушали наши предки, а теперь мы слушаем.
My mother was an antique dealer on Long Island that specialized in player pianos and music boxes. At one time we had 17 player pianos in the house and 4 music boxes they got sold to Randolph Hearst for his Museum. It sounds beautiful nice job thank you so much for the trip back in time my childhood
I dont see how this is a troll comment lol, thats really cool Will, do you know what kind of music box it was you sold?
@@nikolausluhrs it's probably not an authentic account. Looks like just another right- wing sock puppet. They flood the comments.
I don't care what anybody says. It's a real treat to see one of these working. Let alone one as beautifull shape as this one
My great grandfather had one of these music boxes. Almost lost it when his asshole son in law tried to get him to leave all the family heirlooms to him instead of distributing it to the real family. My second cousin got the music box, so at least its still in the family.
Sounds like a story to tell over a few pints!
My grandparents had one too (a Regina). It was always the most special treat when they played it for us! It's still in our family, thankfully, but I had forgotten about it!
What does some outsider think trying to take what rightfully belongs to the family
@@crimsondynamo615 My uncle married(and then divorced) one of those. So many cool things went away.
I know we've had some incredible advances in audio reproduction since this player was produced, but when I hear this I can't help feeling that we've lost something very special.
Every advance leaves something behind. Sometimes it's worth circling back to pick it up again.
@@ProfesserLuigi Which kinda makes me wonder why vinyl has seen a resurgence, but not cassette, 8-track, or reel-to-reel.
@@MisterBiscuitsOfficialPart of it, I think, is Vinyl sounds better than any of them.
@@ProfesserLuigi True, but I'm just surprised that with especially all this craze about the 80s that cassette isn't even popular.
I wasn't expecting this to sound so sweet & beautiful on an antique of this age.
Why not? It's not a recording but a program, it will always sound the same if the machine can be kept in working order.
I'm almost 70 years old and never saw one of those before. Thanks for sharing.
Not only is the sound uniquely magical, the craftsmanship put into these 'music boxes' is simply stunning.
Amazing how clear the sound is compared to the latter day 78's.
because its actually bells inside the box, records are sound waves already on the record, the player doesnt actually make the music (like a music box), it just amplifies the sound stored on the 78, 45, or 33rpm record.
Nick records have tiny “wiggles” in the groove. They’re not sound waves in the record.
@@3434abab I know, I was just trying to explain that it’s not just holes that tell the instrument to play a bell. I believe records use ups and downs, and calendars use left and right. I could be wrong on that. I meant it’s physical sound forms on the vinyl/shellac.
you sacrifice disk space for sound quality
It's because the sound is not reproduced through speakers, but produced on the spot by bells.
Man, whoever has this is a legend
... possesses an object.
Srsly, what is with ascribing legendary status for actions so minor they can scarcely be called achievements?
Back when people worked for silver and gold. Today the spoils of grotesque music and follies of musical brilliance are well abundant. A timeless masterpiece by a spectacular device - cheers!
This is why we like and want to preserve physical media. Everything digital today has a chance of being lost to the ether.
Honestly, no matter what format it is put in, it will most likely be lost to time and degrade, physical formats are no better than digital ones. Even language isn't that good as languages die, it's why we need to decipher hieroglyphs.
@@TrilliumGrandiflorum480 when it comes to the purely digital, there's no way to pass that around or further preserve it without significant effort, because it tends to be tethered to a digital store of some kind that does everything it can to stop you.
@@ViddyOJames what? :D literally every cloud service offers instant access to downloading files or sharing them. What services are you using, that prevent you access??'
Mejor dicho, imposible. Estou de acuerdo con usted. Lo digital está creado para el sueño y olvido de la historia
@@aarotoivari8940 you sound like you're talking about illegal avenues, not places where you buy things. places that close down and prevent you from ever "downloading" them again, because you don't have access to what doesn't exist.
Words cannot express how much happiness this piece brings to me, the allmighty thankfullness to you MusicBoxBoy
One of my favorite waltzes by Strauss. Every New Year’s Eve we play this. The music box is absolutely stunning along with this rendition of the waltz. Glad youtube algorithm lead me to this. ❤️
Hey Gnarly, TH-cam algorithm led me to this as well lol. Small world. Great music taste 👍
@@zensasmr whoa! Lol what are the odds 😂❤️
my grandad had a clock that played this so brought me back to my child hood
I have always loved this kind of music box
My mother and father were born in 1898. This is nearly like listening to something of their life.
how old are you? if you don't mind me asking?
Funny you say that. My Grandfather was born in 1896 and while watching thought how he may have listened to something like this.
That's a nice observation. My parents had ceramic/bakelite 78s in their era.
I dont belive what are you talking about
My father's mother was born 1893 and my father is 89 and still alive so it's possible.
This music box sounds amazing, and I believe it is because it is in a wooden box. Thank you for posting such a great video!
Where can I buy one?
Can I get half finding one like this? I had one and someone gave mine away when she died.
Those are the ice cream trucks I would hear going down my neighborhood street when I was a young boy in the 1960's. Pleasant childhood memories
My grandmother had one like this, still at her home, always loved it.
But so fragile... i love the touch of the metal disc...
It's kind of amazing...this music player was very limited in terms of what and how it could play, but it has stood the test of time far better than any vinyl or gramophone to be within the ballpark of its era. I dare say it could sound just as crisp 200 years from now given the proper care. Thank you for doing your part to preserve this for us.
Like a vinyl record, the music box bells just gets sweeter sounding with age.
The ancestor of the CD
OMG! So beautiful. So many great inventions.
May God Bless.
Good Lord, what lovely music comes from these machines! -I would love to own one of these♡
@Sedevacantist Traditional Catholic what?
You can find these starting at around $3,500
I took the time to read thru at least several hundred comments. I am old enough to remember when things were far simpler. Yes, all the gadgets may be nice but were are we? Are we better off having to work less? In my life time I have seen the birth of many things. My years are pushing on up there. I loved this piece of history.
props to this person for actually using their antique!
Thank for sharing. Amazing not only to listen and appreciate the music but to marvel at the ingenuity and brilliance of our forefathers (and mothers).
Actually the majority of the lush sound comes from the double combs the top of the line music boxes by Regina, Olympia, Stella, Mira and others had along with the larger size discs (15-1/2, 20-3/4, and 27inches. Of course the fine oak and mahogany crafted cases helped the sound resonance as well! These American and european makers were the best ones then.
David Nestander
Galesburg, Illinois
10/1/2020
I do enjoy the Regina
Hey my grandfather is from Galesburg
Thank you for this insight, David :)
Illinoise. Illi noise. Get? Noise? Thank you. Thank you.
Im not saying it’s bad. The music is lovely.
Back when the family sound system, was a piece of artwork.
Just an incredible machine
What a beautiful thing to have in your home.
I LOVE IT!!
Love the reverb, this player has a nice bright sound to it.
When I was young, about 11 years old back in the early 80's.. My Mom and Grand Parents took me on vacation to DC and one of the stops was the Smithsonian.. Now picture this early 80's 11 year old with long hair and completely into heavy metal. Kiss, ACDC, Iron Maiden, Ozzy,,,, Yep that was me.. And while we were walking around, I came to this small case in the middle of the floor and inside was 3 Stradivarius's that at the time was said to be worth over a million each.. Now I was just blown away at the beauty and craftsmanship, not to mention the price tag. Shortly after we got home from our trip, I asked my mother for a guitar. Something in me changed that day and I can remember it like it was yesterday. Ever since then, I have played guitar and am a huge history buff of just about anything but especially music. This is very very cool... Thank you for sharing. And by, I still play today. Next year will be 40 years and have enough equipment to play any concert hall. LOL. Still love music as much to day if not more than 40 years ago..
This sounds so magical and nostalgic like you're a kid in a winter carnival in the 1900s
Absolutely amazing tone and mint condition of the 100 year oldie. I wish it is as well preserved now as it was then.
Gosh, this makes so happy 😇
I love how it even gives you a "fade-away tone of the last note" at the end. :D
Feels like a brown Bear will jumpscare you at any given moment
This is fascinating! Like stepping back in time. How beautiful, and Strauss would be enchanted by this. Thank you for sharing.
Whoever listens to this feels he is a little boy or a little girl again. Thank you.
We had this exact set-up when I was a kid. I remember just staring at it while it played Blue Danube.
Thank you for the beautiful moment of time. At last, something not ugly :)
What a Charming tune
My ex girlfriend's dad has a few music boxes, and he has one that's just like this one, and it plays platters like this one does. It looks almost exactly like this one with one difference. It's coin operated. Apparently it would be the kind of thing that would be in a bar or something. You would put the platter on it, wind it, and put a penny in it to play it. The coin mechanism is so damn simple. It's just a slot with a little lever in it that the coin pushes against as it drops into the wooden coin box. You could shove anything into it to activate it. Her father isn't wealthy either. He's actually lower middle class. It's just that he comes from a family of hoarders, and throughout the ages, they never threw anything out or sold anything. He has TWO original Edison Gramophones with three boxes of wax cylinders for them, a giant folded horn Victrola and a whole shelf of records for it. And he has two giant music boxes. One is that coin operated one, which he has boxes of those metal platters to play on it. And the other is this giant box with a glass front, and super complex looking clockwork inside. That one has several levers on it that if you put the levers in different combinations of positions, it plays different songs.
Neat =)
@@chriswinkler284 It would be neater if he wasn't a hoarder. His daughter got him on an episode of either Hoarders, Buried alive, (and of course, they framed the episode that it was his daughter who was the one with the problem. She got a LOT of flack from the public because of how they edited it.) or the other one. He was one of the failures. He to this day refuses to admit that he has a problem. When his mother died, her house was just as packed as his. And I tried to help clean out the house. He wouldn't let me throw anything away. At the time, he had no money and was on the verge of losing his own house, and instead of selling or getting rid of all that antique stuff, he paid for a storage facility to move everything that was in the house into. And the man had this kind of... radar. If I threw ANYTHING out, even if it was a tiny, insignificant thing, he would know about it, like he had this "Item in the trash radar". I tried getting rid of stuff in drawers and from under piles that he couldn't possibly have even seen into, but somehow... he knew! And that damn house was just like his. All damn antiques and strange stuff that could have been worth tons of money. Hoarding is definitely genetic and it was passed on through generations of his family. Luckily, it seems that his daughters don't have the gene.
@@BlackburnBigdragon Dude.. too much information. He just said "neat".
Unexpected clarity and sound quality. Like a music box on steroids. Great find. Thanks random TH-cam link.
when the sound came, just amazing! love it
Such a beautiful music box and the best version of the Blue Danube..... just love it.
This is amazing. Even though i am a vinyl man, and also have a 100yrs old gramophone, i never knew such a thing existed.
The elegance of the simplicity
The sound is amazing. These old music boxes are a treasure, thank you!
wow,,, amazing.... Thank you so much for posting this !
oh wow. thanks for letting us enjoy this.
This is what heaven sounds like to me. I can't wait to see if I'm right!
Dude this thing is SICK!!! I love it!
So much better than regular music boxes. Wow.
The people giving a thumbs down are probably mean, nasty or something.
All of the above
An uncle had one of these. I was out of the country when he died and I heard that a neighbour had scored the music box from the distraught widow ( and my not very clued up cousin.). But so what... I would just be giving it to a museum about now, if he had gifted it to me . The neighbour has saved me that job.
Beautiful.... reminds me of the years I lived in Cambria California and we had a Cambria Music Box Store ....back in 2014
I hope you'll make a studio recording for this eventually, it would be great to preserve how it sounds somewhere before time takes it. Blue Danube is one of my mum's favourites
it's 100 years older than me!!!
Simply beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!
This brought me to tears. How could I NOT listen to this perfect piece of history?
My body tingled from the pitch and I was instantly reminded of something I heard about music recently. That "they" changed the hertz in our music from healing frequencies to harmful frequencies and I thought that this piece of music would have been in the true, healing frequency and that could be why it instantly made my body tingle and made my tv sound like it had the best sound on the planet but it has mediocre speakers. Makes me think there is something to the frequency thing.
Thank you so for sharing what you do.
Sounds a lot better than today's music.
So sad, thinking about how listening to music was a rarity back then, music would usually only be heard live, they appreciated it enough to go to the efforts of making this thing. Nowadays music is disposable and no one cares, and we have arrogant pop stars who complain about not getting Grammys.
Music today seems to be made of plastic (to me, anyway).
@@jbmbryant plastic? More like pure sh!t
@@jbmbryant It's all frosting and no cupcake
Amazing technology for that period of time and so pleasant to listen to.
Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful instrument and special music.
Try to play a CD in 114 years. Or DAT. Or a VHS cassette. Or read a floppy disk. Or a USB stick.
I think the same with photography in the digital era, old photographic negatives can last for 100 years or more.
@@jomac2046 Have you seen the AI enhanced videos from 1880-1905?
Sound and colours are not historically accurate from source material but AI has done an amazing job at filling in the blanks the camera missed.
th-cam.com/video/YZuP41ALx_Q/w-d-xo.html
@minastaros VHS, Floppy disk, USB, are all expected to not last anywhere near that long without major data corruption and loss.
@@phitsf5475 Also, it will likely be difficult to read the information using future technology, assuming that the data itself is not corrupted.
Such a good point. We should be pushing for "data inheritance" laws so our descendants can have access to our digital troves on heavy-duty cloud storage.
Some day someone is going to go very far and bring back the voyager golden record and build a music box for it.
did yu see tha first STAR TREK movie it is something like that
Plot twist: the true aliens are actually the next stage of human evolutions.
And then demand to meet the creator.
Build it from crystal and platinum...
This is the first time I've ever seen this kind of music box. What a beautiful thing!
What a beautiful machine. Incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Now this is REAL music. It is absolutely beautiful and timeless! Now we have crap like WAP by Cardi b.
I could imagine some wrap group trying record song on this music box
I'm not sure today's rappers even know what a record turntable is :/
Thank you for sharing this extraordinary treasure.
I have never seen this musical machine before... What an interesting invention!... Thank you for sharing...
Things used to be made to last forever, now we have Planned Obsolescence. They told us CDs would last forever, that was a lie too, and everything else will not last, or is easily ruined.
I mean to be fair, this is one of an incredibly small minority of music boxes from this era to have survived to the present day. I'm not really disagreeing with you, because impermanence is a genuine problem in modern society, but still.
I so don't know why listening to it on this this thing feels me with dread like I'm in a horror movie
SCARY CLOWNS! UNSTOPPABLE MERRY GO ROUNDS O_O
Brings back memories.
Wow just wow! Such a treasure, thank you for sharing.
Sounds better than a CD
This video actually got 64 thumbs downs? What horrible empty lives those people must live
And sadly don't appreciate history and all the wonderful things the human mind can create/ invent with some positivity and passion.
I'd guess lots of them would think it's fake or something.
People watching on phones press the button by accident
this is so wonderful. i love finding these treasures on youtube
It’s amazing how far we’ve come
Back in the days, raves were played on this machine. People just had to be quiet but the dancing was still allowed.
i dont think they had a midi editor... imagine if they had to correct a bad timed note? lol
Back in the 1960s, when the ape tossed the bone up into the air, and the bone became a spaceship. THAT'S when I really became acquainted with Strauss's beautiful Blue Danube.
So right! Also, the Beethoven from Soylent Green. Not all movies are brain cell killers....
Incredible that this machine just works after all that time.
0:48 for the actual playing
Literally no one:
FNAF fans:
Amazing craft from an era long gone!
It is absolutely exquisitely made and note perfect.