I believe that this is an Apfelregal, an early portable reed organ. The globular resonators give a more mellow tone than the raw reeds of simpler regals. That was reconstructed from ancient models for Vienna's Technical Museum.
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That's cool! I thought they were bells.
Posted by: Bruce Triggs | January 15, 2009 at 05:58 AM
Its very unlikely that they're free reeds, probably beating reads with very short resonators. Free reeds weren't in Europe until the late 18th Century. This is a re-construction from 16th Century, see:
/home/rja/FreeReed/Stevens/ebay.270336170953
Cheers - Rob
Posted by: Rob Allan | January 31, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Sorry, that URL should have been:
http://www.orgelbau-koegler.at/englisch/information/apfelregal.html
Rob
Posted by: Rob Allan | January 31, 2009 at 04:27 PM