Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — The Largest Musical Box in the World. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Musical Box in the World.

The following very interesting description is frdni the Continental Herald , an Anglo-American paper printed in Geneva, .Switzerland: M Ramuel Troll, fils, of this city, has just finished, for the Khedive of Egypt, certainly the biggest and finest, and, probtablyi th e handsomest musical txn ever made. Its beautiful ebony case is buffetshaped. as large as a full-sized sideboard, and inlhid with zinc and brass-work, and ornamented with bronze chasings and Elates. The interior of this remarkable ox is * perfect marvel of mechanical ingenuity; it includes all the latest improvements for selecting tunes, a patent moderator, etc., and is finished with flute, flutebasso. drum-bells, and castanets. The repertoire consists of 132 tunes supplied by eleven cylinders (which can be exchanged at pleasure) each of them being 6 inches in diameter and 26 inches long. Notwithstanding its Brobdignagian dimensions, this instrument, like others of Us kind, performs automatically—when the Khedive desires to treat himself to a concert he needs only to touch a spring, and if His Highness 'should grow weaiy of the monotony of his Is 2 tunes, ho has but to communicate with ther ingenious and enterprising manager of ■JI. Troll’s establishment—Mr. Qeo. Baker —who can speedily supply him with the materials for a few additional hundreds. To complete our description we ought to mention that the price to be paid for the box is 20,000 francs. As this peculiarly Swiss Work of art will leave Geneva in the vmme of a, few days, we should advise those of our readers, who may have time aha opportunity, not to omit making a visit to the warehouse in the rue Bonivard —tfiey may count wb a courteous reception tom Mr. Baker, who will be happy to show them his big box—the result of eighteen months’ assiduous labor, and of whose successful completion his firm may b* jbnyproud, 1k.;.;., .