Demonstration of David Roentgen’s Automaton of Queen Marie Antoinette, The Dulcimer Player
Watch a demonstration of Queen Marie Antoinette’s Automaton playing one of eight melodies it can perform.
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David Roentgen (1743--1807) took his royal patron by surprise when he delivered this beautiful automaton to King Louis XVI for his queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1784. The cabinetry for this piece is very much a neoclassical masterwork, and the mechanism behind it is truly extraordinary: the figure strikes the strings in per
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