Joueuse de Tympanon - automate 

Hard to believe that was made in 1772. Restored in 1864. Genius creation !!!

Its gaze at 1:45, wow !

now this is truly a work of art.

Impressive.

marie antoinette before she lost her head .. creepy yet beautiful reliquary

that instrument is same like inside the grand piano

The fact that they made such a sophisticated automate at the time speaks volumes about the brilliance of its creator 😀. Wonderful piece of work...

The first time it began to move They must have thought it is magic. How could people build something so beautiful

this is beautiful and the craftsmanship is stunning

It's amazing that this came from the 1700s that it still works (if they take good care of it well and properly), it will last a long time. I'm surprised that every part of the animatronic/robot/mechanic figure moves, due to the rods, screws, and metal, that it is one of the first animatronics ever created. The machinery hidden under the woman's skirt moves the head, arms, and eyes. At first, it looks creepy, cause it's the way how it was designed, but it's truly a amazing masterpiece. It's beautiful.

creepy and beautiful, i wished i owned such a masterpiece!

Robot built in 1780 significantly less creepy & more useful than modern day robots; go figure.

Not sure why, but this makes me sad for some reason. Great music, though!

Holy Hannah!! What an amazing creation. It boggles the mind to think of how they created this, one bit at a time, with what - hundreds? thousands? of moving parts. I can't help but wonder if after years of skilled craftsmen working on this, day in and day out, fine-tuning it to perfection, maybe Marie and Louis just listened politely to a few tunes, then wandered off and did something else, like kids at Christmas ("Oh, let's go play with the box!"). LOL Humans. Go figure.

This is what I call art :) Someone should tune the strings, though...

I'm considering purchasing one of these so that I might play these when I come home from work at 11pm, when I will then sit in my Louis XIV oval medallion tufted sage green linen dining chair as I drink a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau.

Do her eyeballs move too?

That's amazing. Instead of bringing back Furbies let's bring back automatons!

Truly the period of fine art in all things. The French are such leaders and masters of art and style. My favorite period which is so beautifully represented by this masterpiece of craftsmanship!

A damsel with a dulcimer, in a vision once I saw...

Before Animatronics, there was this...

What an amazing piece of history!

HOw super cool is that!! xxx

I can't believe they are handling the dress with bare hands when they lift it up. Even if it's not the original fabric, it's still quite old. Handling such fragile artifacts with your bare hands can speed up deterioration!

it's more modern than our current humanoids!! it's an ART I tells ye!!!! an ART!!

Quite amazing for something that is now 238 years old.

omg... that is way better than any of today's musicboxes! ..... how amazing!

C'est un grand inventeur. Bravo et merci pour votre partage.

Didn't even left the eyes movement OMG what a wonderful creation

Sooo beautiful

There you have, no more Anabelle if you can get Antoibelle...

This is far more complicate than a simple music box or a player piano. Incredible!

Absolutely remarkable! What amazes me most is the subtle gestures, as I am familiar with the complicated mechanics that it would have involved to include them. A true work of love and art!

This is so pretty. I'd love to learn jow it was made, and love the music.

Absolutly fantastic ...and spooky. the one of the boy writing, watch the eyes

Absolutely mind-blowingly clever and gorgeous.

when it moved the eyes I was scared o_O

fabuleuse harmonie !

Unbelievably beautiful! This is true artistic genius, on so many levels.

No, she was looking at ME, and it was at 1:46.

El gusto de María Antonieta era realmente exquisito, esto es una pieza maravillosa y pensar que muchas cosas se perdieron por los saqueos después de la revolución, una pena.

nice ! the hammers falling down on the strings make the music - one could have thought the pins on the big wheel shown at the beginning would generate the sound as done usually.

What is the name of this song?? it's so beautiful!!

Oh, how I would love to turn the key to such a masterpiece. . .

i love her face..and her eyes..wow...if i was ransacking versi back in the 1700's..id probably would have stolen this amazing music box :3

ı love marie antoinette

Wonderful 😱😱😊😊

Yes that's Marie Antoinette playing the Dulcimer. It does sound Mozartey so I believe all 8 pieces she plays were written by Mozart.

That's amazing how they crafted such a beautiful piece of engineering back then.

Wow, it's amazing how old that thing is. Very beautiful and very intricately made. It's just purely amazing.

autor - genius man from 18 century

amazing!!

To think we are listening to something marie antoinette listened herself, posibly in her own room as she was just chilling.

Wow !

WHOAA I love this!

je travaille au musée et je n'ai pas encore eu la chance de la voir jouer en vrai...merci pour cette vidéo!!!

Truly incredible!

No matter how many times I watch this, I am still impressed! I'd Love to have something like her as my own one day...or even be skilled enough to create a replica! Magnificent!

So fascinating. Who knew technology was that developed. The one that can draw and write was mind blowing too.

A little tuning would have helped me out alot

is cute

i was unaware craftsmanship like this existed until today

Cool

It's amazing how a lot of early robots look and act so much better than even todays modern robots.

Omg os cary omg noooo 😭😧😱😨😭😓😭

This famous android was a collaborative effort by two Germans. Clockmaker Peter Kintzing created the mechanism and joiner David Roentgen crafted the cabinet; the dress dates from the 19th century. Automatons were in circulation and aroused much curiosity. Roentgen probably sent the tympanum to the French court and Marie-Antoinette bought it in 1784. The queen, aware of its perfection and scientific interest, had it deposited in the Academy of Sciences cabinet in 1785. The tympanum is a musical instrument that plays eight tunes when the female android strikes the 46 strings with two little hammers. Tradition has it that she is a depiction of Marie-Antoinette. Source: "ru-vid.com"; www.besbrodepianos.co.uk/

So many beautiful things in the world

How amazing

That thing is scary as fuck

Amazing yet unbelievable

It's a giant musical box, how brilliant! :D

Great video. Robert Houdin is one of my favorite magicians.I have fell in love with these magnificent mechanisims(automatons) as I learn more about these fascinating automatons.

HOLY...! Did I just see her eyeballs move too!?

A Robot don't take "decisions", he just do what he was built to do. Every Gear and every Piece have a diferent FUNCTION depending of it's position, speed, weight.. (idk the project). So this Machine are taking decisions constantly. If a Gear are at position A it will do something.. If the Gear are at position B it will do another thing. Respond a "decision" is just process the Algoritm... Doesn't matter if the process is 100% automatic. (Sry about my English, i'm still learning)

1:32 gave me chills this is a really good song

That's beautiful

@Stereotest, because is a reminder of a lost world. Once great music & art existed but were destroyed by human incompetence running society in the case of the French Monarchy. Maybe it makes you sad because Marie's life relates to is sad music.Then there is the art of creating something special not practical. Most robots we will ever create will serve the purpose of doing something manual. We will never achive something like this again (at least until Data of ST).

Amazing !!

BEAUTIFUL! I wish I owned it!

unbelievable!

Absolument brilliant! Le détail et le soin accordé aux gestures m'impressionnent beaucoup ^^ J'espère pouvoir construire quelque chose d'aussi sophistiqué un jour...

Amazing ! ! !

Un'oggetto notevole. Perfetta la sincronia tra movimento(percussione) e musica.Straordinario,un lavoro eccellente!

Aagh that one dislike was me. I was aiming to Fav it and didn't have my mouse over quite far enough. Definitely don't dislike this; It's beautiful, in an eerie, haunting sort of way.

Exactly, thank you. Is the Mars rover Curiosity creepy? No, no it's not.

could this show how should ideal women move in past times? how beautiful! an animated portrait from the past.

這位女士，正在彈奏一首廣東音樂，「平湖秋月」: The lady is playing 「Autumn moon light on the lake 」!😃😃A famous Chinese Cantonese music !👍

I hope that I was the queen and received such a wonderful present!!

Was the song made exclusively for the machine or can someone give me a name.

Soo..beautiful. This is wonderful!!!

Amaizing! I have myself an automate from the XVII century, a little magician that makes objets apear and disappear from a table. I've been trying to find out if there are buyers for this type of antiquities, does anyone know were can a get information as to sell it? Cheers

Exquisite!

This is from 1772 0_0

1772 ! ...fabuleux !!

Woah.

It's very fantastic!

I like that but stop saying it's creepy Da da da

what i wonderful item, i saw one back in the late 70s it was wonderful to sit and listen to it and watch it. to understand how they made something like this almost 200 years ago. wow

@AnOverdoseofZac It's a dulcimer! Her name roughly translates to 'the player of the dulcimer' (or 'the dulcimer player').

What's the name of the piece at the beginning?