"AVE MARIA" Played On 1905 MIRA 18 1/2 Inch Concert Grand Console Music Box

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13 жыл бұрын

Here is a lovely rendition of Charles Gounod's "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary") as played on one of our 1905 18 1/2 inch Mira Concert Grand console music boxes. I have always enjoyed listening to the piece on this particular music box as it never fails to leave me speechless. I have played this same selection on music box discs from my collection on our 20 1/2 inch Olympia music box, 15 1/2 inch Reginaphone and 17 1/4 inch Stella and this particular rendiion on this box produces the finest rendition of all of them. Thanks for stopping in.

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@henrikevertsson8702 3 жыл бұрын

Musical boxes are magical, but also a bit sad. It's like "canned" emotions. Crystal clear and vibrant, but strangely lifeless.

@topophil 3 жыл бұрын

I could not agree more. I think it shows you that music does not really come from the musical instrument, but somewhere else.

@nooffence2769 3 жыл бұрын

*deep

@anthonybawia99 3 жыл бұрын

@@topophil couldn’t agree more. We can see that the music needs both the instrument but mainly the person who plays on it. He creates the emotions, the atmosphere and how the audience consumes the sound. It’s wonderful

@picleus 3 жыл бұрын

Ehh, entirely electronic music, never "played" music exists and is often beautiful and full of emotion. Music boxes are in the same realm, but they are generally not used in innovative ways. If you want some food for thought, check out Wintergatan's "Marble Machine." The device has manual elements, but it's a true beauty of automated music performance. EDIT: mitxela "More MIDI madness" here on KZfaq also has some interesting, albeit silly, ideas.

@kdvr766 3 жыл бұрын

Like marriage 🤣😢☹️

@DBBravo 3 жыл бұрын

The algorithm has, once again, gathered all of us

@dickrichard626 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know what being redundant is?

@DBBravo 3 жыл бұрын

@@dickrichard626 what was so redundantly redudant?

@humanplace1962 3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@user-lr8od4uz1n 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mr.Burton

@THEBOSS47MLG 3 жыл бұрын

Nah band teacher

@brightman232 3 жыл бұрын

knowing the fact that its from 1905, it's just mesmerising

@Saranaprasadam 3 жыл бұрын

It is older than Titanic

@iamabigfatbutt 3 жыл бұрын

The tech behind this is no different than music boxes, which go back to the late 1700s. Now look up wire recorders and really have your mind blown.

@arcosprey4811 3 жыл бұрын

Thats pretty recent

@b0wgey 3 жыл бұрын

and i just know it today.

@faithlesshound5621 3 жыл бұрын

@@iamabigfatbutt The original technology, revolving cylinders with pins sticking out of them, was invented by the Banu Musa brothers of Baghdad in the 9th century. Many improvements have been made to the designs of musical automata since then.

@clubtcb 3 жыл бұрын

The technical ingenuity of our forefathers never ceases to amaze me.

@Jakkomies 3 жыл бұрын

Upscaling a music box?

@johnlucas6683 3 жыл бұрын

Working with what they have, and over time.

@LSK2K 3 жыл бұрын

@ur door lame You sound like a moronic redditor.

@LSK2K 3 жыл бұрын

@ur door lame Do I sound salty or do I taste salty? Maybe you should post another unfunny immense at r/politicalhumour

@latslarsson2001 3 жыл бұрын

@ur door lame why does that matter lol

@linkmaxwell 3 жыл бұрын

"In a hundred and fifteen years, people across the world will be listening to this device over instruments so advanced as to appear to be magic."

@HolzMichel 9 жыл бұрын

one can only stand in awe of the people who built these things and the skill that went into the making of the machine

@FireController1847 3 жыл бұрын

*glares at Marble Machine X by Wintergatan*

@mysterioushawk2171 3 жыл бұрын

True words said...

@FFXZeldagames 3 жыл бұрын

It truly is marvelous how the Muggles got along without magic.

@bahrambakhtiyar 3 жыл бұрын

@@FFXZeldagames Some Potterhead problems...

@CEBph5997 3 жыл бұрын

@@FFXZeldagames Yeah an RPG to the face can kill literally anyone.

@xlemonpiex. 8 жыл бұрын

that sounds so magical..

@Marlonxx_ 3 жыл бұрын

Me also

@redstonecommander5190 Ай бұрын

Yeah, I’m not sure about you guys but out of all the music box melodies this one hits me hard And if this lovable vibe literally hits you on your childhood memories this feeling becomes amplified by how deeply emotional and fragile you are

@RetiredLover 3 жыл бұрын

This brings a tear to my eye, the sound of past. I can picture people gathered around this instrument in an old Victorian living room, the logs in the fireplace crackling with Mom &Dad sitting in the overstuffed chairs and the red velvet curtains behind them, us kinds on the large area rug. The gas lights flickering and the snow swirling outside the picture window.

@henrikrulofs9636 Жыл бұрын

Yes, wonderful description and I thought similar, remembering one pair of my great-grandparents married 6 years earlier and the other beautiful couple one year later. Deo gratias

@kevinmooney1214 Жыл бұрын

I agree with you.

@Valay. Жыл бұрын

Imagina building a french chateau just to house this incredible piece of engineering history and piece of art

@Valay. Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love ur description

@jessetaylor7532 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know what I was expecting it to sound like but that was not it. absolutely love how it sounds though.

@segoon2000 3 жыл бұрын

You were expecting maybe Schubert's Ave Maria. This one is by a different composer, named Gounod.

@ecosseza4030 3 жыл бұрын

As an early Gen X i think we vastly underestimate the engineering of what came before us, I am in tears and speechless.

@samuelsaurus 2 жыл бұрын

In tears 💀

@kristianbailes2974 6 жыл бұрын

imagine this playing Christmas music

@arbreshaismajli5617 3 жыл бұрын

kristian I would sleep with this song by the fire place

@Abcd123Alex 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@NorthernChev 3 жыл бұрын

Ugh...

@sarahpursley719 3 жыл бұрын

Beats Mariah Carey Christmas any day.

@williamgardner5256 3 жыл бұрын

Problay my favourite version on this instrument kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8yjgbOorKm3hKM.html

@lucasdealmeida8098 8 жыл бұрын

I was expecting the one by Schubert, but this is good too

@andreweliason713 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the good quality audio recording.

@LittleLion93 8 жыл бұрын

This is a soundtrack of a dream *___*

@Danstarr13 3 жыл бұрын

bro is this physical midi??? cos holy shit that's cool

@helmetedautistic8647 3 жыл бұрын

Then you should check music paper piano.

@impossibleworld924 3 жыл бұрын

@@helmetedautistic8647 what i was gonna say lmao

@SDrizzy 3 жыл бұрын

@@helmetedautistic8647 what is that? tried looking it up

@ethanlai1044 3 жыл бұрын

@@SDrizzy a player piano is a piano that plays itself using paper rolls with music encoded in them.

@novaflame4812 3 жыл бұрын

@@helmetedautistic8647 yeah, there's also the carnival calliope, which is a self playing pipe organ, and they are a real treat to watch and listen to. And most modern pipe organs have a midi function too, mind you, a computer is usually required to be hooked up, but some older models use the music paper that player piano's and calliopes used back in the old days as well, so despite it's popularity as a digital format, midi has been around for quite some time as a self playing music format.

@aisforamerica2185 3 жыл бұрын

My great-grandmother had one of these in her house when I was growing up. Wonderful memories.

@helenabulati9820 3 жыл бұрын

I did not expect to be suddenly taken to a different, beautiful world, today. When the music started i felt as if i had traveled to a beautiful fantasy world like Howl's flower garden.. this was magical

@SphinxxGames 3 жыл бұрын

KZfaq in 2021: Look at this, dude!!

@stuartdickinson5282 5 жыл бұрын

I never get bored from hearing this, someone did a sterling job in restoring this mechanical marvel ! I would sure like to meet the lucky chap who owns this ! Always a pleasure to hear and It makes me think of Maria callas who like this superb instrument, does justice to Ave Maria ! Thank you for sharing !

@terenas1986 10 жыл бұрын

The Mira and the Stella give the nicest sounds as far as I can hear... breathtaking.

@dinomate01 9 жыл бұрын

This is pure "Magic" Thanks for posting this !

@tsuki7905 3 жыл бұрын

Someone tell me that I'm not the only one who found this in my recommended 10 years after they posted this

@jermafan9158 3 жыл бұрын

You’re not the only one who found this in your recommended 10 years after they posted this

@dinkledankle 3 жыл бұрын

Looking at the dozens/hundreds of comments posted only days before your's, I'd say no.

@manniponti 6 жыл бұрын

Great music, music of a dream.....

@Smashinz2002 12 жыл бұрын

That was absolutely beautiful !! When I was a little kid, my great aunt had a large music box like this, and several tune sheets, but not this song that I can remember. Also, I had forgotten how wonderful the sustain is through the wooden box, it sounds sooo great!

@paulwalker2401 6 жыл бұрын

I've only ever seen these on TV programmes ,,and they are absolutely beautiful, the music is stunning and the sound truly amazing,, love to have one,, loved this music and the video, brilliant..

@Fuelys 7 жыл бұрын

This song is like a travel to magical land. I love it thank you for sharing !

@finnmccool684 3 жыл бұрын

It's absolutely stunning. I especially love the echoing effect of the fading note phrases. Incredible.

@crackheadengineer3716 3 жыл бұрын

literally the first design of musical records

@HolzMichel 10 жыл бұрын

hard to count how many times in the last few months i've listened to this...thank you so much for the upload

@bandkid3529 3 жыл бұрын

Commenting to get you to listen to it again after 6 years

@Mr_x_19922 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, imagine listening to that beauty in 1905

@user-de2iu9vb7z 3 жыл бұрын

Certainly this makes me feel nostalgic. However, when I see and listen to this, the smile of the proud craftsman when I finish making this and let someone listen to it comes to my mind, and I also smile.

@cafeconmala 6 жыл бұрын

wow thanks for sharing that with us, so amazing and dreamy... I love it

@cornchipcharlie9370 6 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful piece of musical technologies. Absolutely wonderful

@lunatunaluna 9 жыл бұрын

dat is one fancy music box ( = w = )

@bluephantomwolf976 6 жыл бұрын

( 0` w ´0) Cat? BARK BARK BORK BONK BERK BINK BONK BARK BARK BARK!!!!!!

@tuantani8480 6 жыл бұрын

Blue Phantom Wolf Oh my fucjing god I couldn't handle the *CRINGE*

@juliannad6091 5 жыл бұрын

Yup 👌

@oldtimecraftchannel1534 5 жыл бұрын

@@bluephantomwolf976 Meow (ΦωΦ)

@excludermus 4 жыл бұрын

uwu isabelle

@Smashinz2002 12 жыл бұрын

@MusicBoxBoy I just love music, both creating it, playing it, and listening to it. To me, these antique music boxes provide a perfectly accurate revisitation of the sounds of the late 1800's and very early 1900's. There are very few things which can provide such an experience, putting you 'right there' yet again to enjoy it as it was (and still is). Oh, and let's not forget the artistic value of the machine itself, considering also just how much work went into building them, a much slower pace

@GabeNotNewell 3 жыл бұрын

WHY THIS DOES NOT HAVE MILLION VIEWS??? ITS AWESOME!!!!!

@markmaifarth1822 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful chimes such as this from heaven from five to to ten seconds then our lady spoke greetings “hi mark” with such a beautiful tender voice. Chimes like these remember of that moment between sleep and awake.2006-2007?

@baishechuan 3 жыл бұрын

Wonder what the stars in our galaxy would sound like, if mapped similarly to the notes played on this✨

@Pythois 3 жыл бұрын

Probably sound like shit

@baishechuan 3 жыл бұрын

@@Pythois 🤣

@voidmantis9133 3 жыл бұрын

russian anthem

@l4dy_darkness 3 жыл бұрын

a ✨chaotic mess✨

@TheVgameboy 3 жыл бұрын

most likely darude sandstorm

@Tiger-br8hq 3 жыл бұрын

This will give me sweet dreams tonight

@drwklam888 10 жыл бұрын

An absolutely gorgeous piece that comes to life in this state of the art music box. Bravo!

@pattysminiatureworld 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing I have enjoyed all the discs.

@frankrodriguezponte9960 6 ай бұрын

Its Just a wonderful invention!!!,Is so beautiful that I only can enjoy and smile❤❤❤❤

@crazymarkiplierfan 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the first time this was ever seen by the public imagine how magical that moment must have been! But also knowing how the people from back then reacted to new things they probably thought it was witchcraft or something

@Ivan-xo4wo 3 жыл бұрын

This was made in the 20th century, not the middle age.

@DisneyJF 3 жыл бұрын

That is the power of Music, it makes men create ingenious machines just to listen to it. Absolutely Amazing.

@garyrizwan1024 3 жыл бұрын

and here I am listening to this on a Holy Monday evening. Ave Maria

@barzinjahangirpour2744 7 жыл бұрын

ive loved music boxes all my life man

@jeopardy60611 3 жыл бұрын

I play keyboards and write original music. I have done audio recording with MIDI synths. I find it fascinating that there were machines like this that played music automatically before the MIDI days. I would be honored to have one of my original songs played by a music box like this.

@siegfridbautista776 3 жыл бұрын

I am gigging musician for almost a decade covering 60's and the techno synth sounds today but i am totally zero zero knowlsge in the midi thing.. however i ammalso impress in technological innovation back then,

@TheKweenII_09 2 жыл бұрын

victorian music boxes are my favorite

@stuartdickinson5282 5 жыл бұрын

Superb sound, very lovely arrangement, Every time I hear this it's as good as the first time , sounds flawless,the chap who's restored it has done a sterling job !

@TheJukeboxVoice 8 жыл бұрын

So beautiful!

@mikegross6107 3 жыл бұрын

I love "music boxes" and always wanted to own one such as this one! Thanks for sharing this one and keep them coming.

@larryware1 4 жыл бұрын

Breathtakingly beautiful sound! Thank you for posting.

@romieljamesmoreno8488 9 жыл бұрын

Amazing I love the music ☺

@richardwillemain9664 7 жыл бұрын

Is still just soo wonderful ! Thank you

@ninjabluewings 3 жыл бұрын

I have always had a fascination with musical boxes and this type really is AMAZING!

@RyuuHatake 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds like what the Astral Observatory in Majoras Mask should play after you beat the game

@momouwu1937 3 жыл бұрын

music boxes always sound so nostalgic

@elhector83 3 жыл бұрын

No me imaginaba que de un disco tan rudimentario podría salir una música tan bella.

@eleanoraitken1207 9 жыл бұрын

VERY NICE TO HEAR SOME THING SO AWESOME

@youssouphafall6966 7 жыл бұрын

C'est magnifique infiniment tendrement splendide Pure merveille crème de bonheur plaisir des Oreilles rythme émotionnel. joliment Merci

@SharpLady53 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, kind sir. Lovely. 🌈

@coronakaflu8411 6 жыл бұрын

I am feeling like a 5yrs old, and my mom would tell me a story to sleep, night sky with so many stars

@herculean616 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful.

@richardwillemain9664 6 жыл бұрын

still very special and magical ... thank you

@prich0382 3 жыл бұрын

Technology Connections needs to do a video on this

@DanielTorres-uv7ck 3 жыл бұрын

I thank you for showing us this beautiful piece.

@michaelheintz8853 7 жыл бұрын

Just wonderful!!

@ninirosso9866 Жыл бұрын

Yes! It's enjoyed me a lot! Thanks and greetings from Argentina!🇦🇷

@mariogrimaud 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this wonderful video. Great audio too!

@bengrout4103 8 жыл бұрын

So Beautiful

@rwillemain9814 10 жыл бұрын

just so beautiful,,,,, thank you forever !!!

@crystalperry6370 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely lovely!

@leeshepherd8486 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful

@gottabesandi 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds so twinkly, it’s magical 🥺

@urbanexplorer1996 13 жыл бұрын

........wow .......best song ever !

@DebsWombat 3 жыл бұрын

WOW. I have no idea why this video was suggested for me, and this is not remotely what I expected it to sound like. This is beautiful. ❤️ Thank you so much!

@richardwillemain9664 6 жыл бұрын

Seems this playing gets better every time I hear it. Thank you, again.

@andersj.gonzalez4826 4 жыл бұрын

A 2 minute trip to heaven... So amazing... Thanks for posting this video!

@sashapatrick4072 6 жыл бұрын

so hypnotic! to listen to and see it go around!

@jmpomerleau 11 жыл бұрын

Stunning!

@aimeeinkling 3 жыл бұрын

This video strangely jogged a memory of my family having one of these when I was very young. I had completely forgotten and now I wish I still had it.

@erichuntington9501 4 жыл бұрын

Just astounding! I have never seen or heard anything like that!

@lolitapoly123 3 жыл бұрын

absolutely beautifuly.💖💖💖. A Blessed Christmas to You.🙏🙏🙏

@judipodgurski5083 2 жыл бұрын

Second most beautiful sound in the world, right behind the laughter of a baby. 🥰

@erickmartinez9541 6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Beautiful!

@smoothestones1 7 жыл бұрын

Modern technology hasn't improved on this. It's so rich.

@out6of6my6mind 6 жыл бұрын

smoothestones1 you're listening to a digital recording over the internet... if what you're listening to sounds good then modern technology is just fine.

@claytonrolfnehring8119 6 жыл бұрын

Sean but nothing can capture have the character of something like this.

@_hector__ 6 жыл бұрын

Rock Well No shit, nothing will. It shouldn't even be a topic to discuss since it's inherently obvious. You can't experience something to it's purest form if it's via a proxy. @OP That's something unique, it can't be compared because it's subjective. It's like saying an ancient chinese flute will always sound better than modern flutes. Your comment lacks thought.