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Code 8174
EUR 750.00
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1750260988Code 8174 MetronomeMetronome system Paquet 1815 and Johan Maelzel 1846 from the second half of the 19th century.
Measurements cm 11x11x23.5 – 4.3x4.3x9.3.
It is an instrument made of oak wood used to measure the tempo of music, the sound of the pendulum signals the speed of execution with precision. The instrument consists of a pendulum with a counterweight that works with a clockwork mechanism with toothed wheels moved by a spring. The rod located on the front equipped with a counterweight is activated by the clockwork mechanism which with its oscillations marks the passage of time. The instrument is housed in a pyramid-shaped box made of oak wood which on the front has a brass plate and the names of Paquet 1815 and the inventor, the Austrian physicist J.N. Maelezel 1846.
Philippe-Nicolas Paquet was born in 1823; he settled in Paris, where he worked for the Maelzel Metronome company; upon the death of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel then took over the management of the factory and in 1867 he established a new small machine tool and metronome production plant in Beaumont Sur Oise. The Beaumont plant remained in production until 1983.
Among the first to use this type of instrument was Ludwig van Beethoven.
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