![]() ‘Reuge' is known for producing the best and most prestigious musical boxes in this field. With the precision of a Swiss watch we assembled a unique recording setup to give us access to the minute teeth of the steel tuned comb, allowing us to record multiple round robins for each tooth with a pin pluck, in the process getting some more practise in the art of standing very still and holding our breath for prolonged periods. ![]() We decided to name this Sonokinetic version of the Music Box by its Dutch name ‘Speeldoos’, as some of you might have already deciphered with a little help from our friends at Google.įeaturing in this product is an original Swiss made Music Box that we recorded with the highest regard for sound quality and authenticity. Maybe it’s a Dutch thing, that also drew us to the mechanical organs recorded for ‘The Carnival’, but we cannot help getting thrown back to our youth playing this thing (preferably slightly uneven and at varying tempi). ![]() There is something magical about these very simple devices that touches your heart and conveys emotion, even though the thing is purely mechanic. Who cannot remember the small iron concoctions with a little handle from their youth, the ones you would place on a chest, table or any, preferably hollow, object to amplify its sound (ours played Beethoven’s Für Elise). What we didn’t do yet was the very small, and that is exactly what we set out to do with this new project ‘Speeldoos’. Sonokinetic is not new to sampling metal instruments, we have done the very large with ‘Toll’, the medium key-played with ‘Celesta’ and various sizes played with sticks and hammers with ‘Mallets’, the weird with ‘Fe’ … and of course we did ‘Sleigh Bells’. ![]()
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