Musical Cuckoo Clock

Here is a musical cuckoo clock that looks like an old German Hofbräuhaus (beer house). The two guys on the barrels raise their beers every hour, as the clock cuckoos, chimes and plays music.

The door where the little beer mug pops out needs to be adjusted to stay closed, but still a fun clock.

Small Colorful Cuckoo Clock

Here is our smallest Cuckoo clock. This one has some nice color and a cuckoo that goes really fast.

Vintage cuckoo clock

The lastest edition to our expanding collection...a RARE Russian cuckoo clock. Russia's popular watch and clock maker Majak's version of the normall German clock. This clock dates from the late 50's to early 60's and is clearly marked on the face with CCCP.

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The cuckoo clock in Strasbourg

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Gigantic cuckoo clock

Gigantic cuckoo clock in Triberg, Germany.

The cuckoo clock in Munich

cuckoo clock in downtown Munich

The cuckoo clock in Praha (Prague)

The cuckoo clock in town square.

Russian Cuckoo Clock

a RARE Russian cuckoo clock. Russia's popular watch and clock maker Majak's version of the normall German clock. This clock dates from the late 50's to early 60's and is clearly marked on the face with CCCP.

German cuckoo clock

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Mini Cuckoo Clock

Machine of making cuckoo clock

Cuckoo Clock Factory

Schwarzwald Rautladen Cuckoo Clock Factory.

German Cuckoo Clock Shop

German Cuckoo Clock Shop in Australia

Cuckoo clock house

Wonderful entry the Cuckcoo Clock is wonderful.

Biggest cuckoo clock

biggest cuckoo clock in world St. Goar, Germany

Cuckoo clock in Triberg Germany

This one is not the largest but has the most moving parts in the world.

Musical Chalet style Cuckoo clock.

Musical Chalet style Cuckoo clock. Music plays after cuckoo, and the little guy slams the door after he plays.

Big Cuckoo Clock in Rubeshibe

A happy blue bird is popping up to say cuckoo!

Worlds largest cuckoo clock

The largest functioning cuckoo clock.

Musical cuckoo clocks frequently have other automatisms which move when the music box plays. Today's cuckoo clocks are almost always weight driven, a very few are spring driven. The weights are made of cast iron in a pine cone shape and the "cuc-koo" sound is created by two tiny gedackt (pipes) in the clock, with bellows attached to their bottoms. The clock's mechanism activates the bellows to send a puff of air into each pipe alternately when the clock strikes.

German musical cuckoo clock

n popular music, serve as examples the Christmas carol "The Cuckoo Clock" by James Hipkins and contained in the weekly British music journal "The Musical World" in 1856, the song "The Cuckoo Clock" (published in April 1909 in “The Ladies' Home Journal), music by Louis R. Dressler and words by William Henry Gardner, the ballad "The Cuckoo Clock" (1916) chanted by Lucy Gates (soprano), and "Cuckoo in the clock" (words by Johnny Mercer and music by Walter Donaldson) recorded by the Glenn Miller orchestra and vocals by Marion Hutton, which became a popular 1939 song in the U. S. To say that the hit was also performed by Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup, Lena Horne, Sully Mason, Steve Jordan, Mildred Bailey and Martha Tilton.

Musical cuckoo clock

When it comes to the art of music, there is a musical work of the Spanish composer, conductor and violinist Tomás Bretón entitled "El reloj de cuco" (The Cuckoo Clock) (1898), a one-act Comedy Zarzuela divided into three scenes prose, libretto by Manuel de Labra and Enrique Ayuso. Other classical music pieces are;

* "The Cuckoo Clock" (1920), by Leopold Godowsky, the composition number twenty-six from his thirty pieces suite for piano called “Triakontameron".
* "The Cuckoo Clock" (1932), a song for piano and vocal by Thomas Griselle and Victor Young. It was recorded in 1934, performed by the soprano Rosa Ponselle and conducted by Andre Kostelanetz.
* "The Cuckoo in the Clock" (published in 1957), a piano solo piece by William Scher.

Antique Cuckoo Clock

Black Forest cuckoo clock with quail sounding the quarter hours.

Modern cuckoo clocks

Colorful happy these modern design cuckoo clocks represent the perfect gift and decorative object! Made in Italy, featuring German cuckoo system, the cuckoo comes out and sing while sleeps at night!

Jumping Deer cuckoo clock

This charming chalet has been a long-time best seller. It has nice proportions and is beautifully colored. The dancers are animated, as well as the baby deer below. With each cuckoo call they are startled and actually jump up.

New details in this piece include laser-cut windows and beautifully carved deer. The roof has individually hand-laid shingels, and the dial, hands, and bird are all of solid wood. The waterwheel also turns and there are several fine details on this clock - including a "hidden window' on the side of the clock.

Cuckoo clock History

In 1629, several decades before watchmaking was established in the Black Forest, a nobleman of Augsburg by the name of Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) wrote the first known description of a cuckoo clock. The clock belonged to Prince Elector August von Sachsen.
In a textbook widely known tune "Musurgia Universalis" (1650), the scholar Athanasius Kircher describes a mechanical organ automatic with several personalities, including a mechanical cuckoo. This book contains the first description in words and pictures of how a mechanical cuckoo. We must assume that Kircher did not invent the cuckoo mechanism, because this book, like his other works, is a compilation of facts known in a reference manual. The engraving shows clearly all the elements of a mechanical cuckoo. The bird automatically opens its beak and two coups wings and tail. At the same time, we hear the call of the cuckoo, created by two pipe organs, listening to a minor or major third. There is only one fundamental difference of the Black Forest-type mechanism cuckoo: The functions of the Kircher birds are not governed by a wheel to count a train strike, a barrel stuck program synchronizes the movements and sounds of 'bird.

In 1669, Domenico Martinelli, in its manual on basic clocks "Horologi Elementari", suggests using the call of the cuckoo to indicate the hours. From the time the mechanism of the cuckoo clock was known. Any engineer or watchmaker, who could read latin or Italian, knew after reading the books he is quite feasible to have the cuckoo announce hour.
The result, cuckoo clocks appeared in regions that had not been known for their watches.
A few decades later, people from the Black Forest began to build cuckoo clocks.