Musical clock

Musical clock (Ger.: Flötenuhr), timepiece with a small, built-in automatic organ, its pinned cylinder rotated by clockwork, of late-18th-c. invention. It succeeded a larger instr. known from the 16th c. on, the clockwork organ, which usually had 2 ranks of pipes, a stopped 4' and an open 2'. Both types were replaced by the *music box in the 19th c. (37). Buchner, Alexandr. Mechanical Musical Instruments. London, n.d.