Carillon Marble Machine

Zierikzee the netherlands.

Carillon marble machine.

Unknown place of manufacture. Is a musical instrument typically housed in the bell tower belfry of a church or municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze cup shaped bells which are played serially to produce a melody or together to play a chord a traditional manual carillon is played by striking a keyboard. Here s the carillon a 500 year old mechanical music machine that played the music on its own.

1550 1600 and the carillon was added later maker. If you are a musician and actively listening to youtube you may have heard about the marble machine built by martin from wintergaten. I requested this song to the school carillon professor. Martin molin says that the idea of marble machine came to his mind only after learning about the carillon.

Marble machine piano version written by. Turret clock is from ca. Martin molin wintergatan played live on the iowa state. So glad i managed to hear it live.