Blue Danube Waltz Played On 1898 Olympia 15 3/4 Inch Music Box - Johann Strauss Composer 

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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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--kfOs0N_LY4.html

@@magmatri-studios its not a song ffs :(

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.

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.

@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

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

Ah yes my rrrefined fellow, let us begin to indulge ourselves in our music box's sweet melodies, for we are having a *--/{V I C T O R I A N R A V E}\--*

@@cessnafun5385 aight :I

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.

That sounds wonderful, very lucky

What fun that would have been! Wonderful memories and an opportunity to reactivate family traditions.

@@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 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.

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.

... possesses an object. Srsly, what is with ascribing legendary status for actions so minor they can scarcely be called achievements?

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.

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.

Where can I buy one?

Can I get half finding one like this? I had one and someone gave mine away when she died.

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.

Hey Gnarly, RU-vid algorithm led me to this as well lol. Small world. Great music taste 👍

@@zensasmr whoa! Lol what are the odds 😂❤️

@Sedevacantist Traditional Catholic what?

You can find these starting at around $3,500

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.

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.

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.

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".

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...

I'm not sure today's rappers even know what a record turntable is :/

SCARY CLOWNS! UNSTOPPABLE MERRY GO ROUNDS O_O

All of the above

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

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

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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YZuP41ALx_Q.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.

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.

no one loves you

@@soupdrinker i know XD

The same happened to me XD

Or a Call of Duty/ Battlefied cutscene. Actually this would probably fit in any movie scene set between 1850 and 1950.