Museum Speelklok: self-playing musical instruments - Utrecht, Netherlands

Museum Speelklok is a museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands (Holland). The collection consists of self-playing musical instruments from the 16th century to the present day.

Self-playing musical instruments come with a program enabling them to play music without the aid of a human performer.

They exist in an overwhelming variety of types and sizes:
- musical clocks announce the striking of the hour with preludes on bells, organ pipes or strings
- musical boxes play their tuned steel combs from pinned brass cylinders or steel discs
- pianolas and orchestrions play their music as programmed on wooden, brass-pinned cylinders and perforated paper rolls
- barrel organs play their music from pinned wooden barrels
- large street organs, fairground organs and dance organs play from folding cardboard music books

Over the years the museum has become popular nationwide and internationally. The museum's restauration workshops are a leader in their field.

The museum was founded in 1956. Since 1984 it is housed in the former medieval church 'Buurkerk', Utrecht (Netherlands).

https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/lang/en

September 18, 2016 (second visit)

My first visit in 2010 can be seen here: https://youtu.be/W1enQW47wA8

00:00 Utrecht city center
00:16 Museum Speelklok is housed in a medieval church
00:51 Inside the museum
01:24 Start guided tour
01:31 Carillon
02:01 Musical clocks
02:40 Pianola
03:28 Street organs
04:17 Dances organs, used in dance halls or ballrooms
05:45 Museum (general)
06:05 An orchestrion
06:14 Automatons
06:21 Polyphons
06:28 Polyphon Model 5 (approx. 1900), jukebox for 10 discs
06:45 Hologram
07:03 Museum cafe

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