Featured Metronome fix up................................................c/s8 +4

Hi folks

this was the metronome i picked up at christmas (and couldn't work out why it was set to lunatic asylum )

turns out its missing the sliding weight to the bar

(have just ordered a replacement, so should be ready to go mellow soon)

i'm guessing quite an oldie (love the shape) (wind up)

Mahogany ? French ?

 

It is a Maëlzel. Maëlzel was an inventor and the first to manufacture metronomes on a large scale. Although he lived in several countries, including his native Germany, I believe he started his metronome factory in Paris. So I guess yours is French made.

 

Interesting info on the man and the metronomes:

https://www.stablemark.com/blog/mae...9fh143q42Di7wQXDDl75yX0VdWGTrrZeW1Jx8nkuza0FI

The plaque on yours looks like the 1923 one, but that one is brass and yours isn't.

 

awesome, looking forward to getting a good speed tick (hopefully theres a speed that might make it pleasant to listen to (or have on)

 

Now yer talking.....cuppa tea and a biscuit first

 

its also just hit me where i got the idea from

 

i'm thinking the pencil 158 can't be the serial number from the guide, as it doesn't strike me as that old, but seems like their should be one on mine, if that isn't it

 

i'm guessing the 158 or 58 is the model number maybe then

the plaque feels like aluminium (so might help date)

tried to get a picture of all the speed names - hey PRESTO

 

the blinking top one says GRAVE ..............is that like really fast or really slow

 

'Grave' means serious, so slow. You can also tell because below are the music terms leading up to 'grave', like andante and largo.

 

wonder which one the magic one is (or even if it exists)...we shall have to see

 

Gee, I got one sitting on my (lonely) piano now! It's not that old -- got it in the early 60s, but the shape is the same, it's a wind-up mechanism and was well used for a number of years. Still works! Go anti-digital, LOL!

 

coolio ! you might be able to edify me on the setting 'Prestissi'

.....i'm guessing then its basically..................'the clappers'

 

i do like the idea of your lonely piano though kent (sounds a thoughtful intelligent one)

 

I have one of the same type, although not this maker, that was my mother's. She would have been taking piano lessons in the 1930s.

The higher up the weight is, the slower the speed. Mesmerizing speed is probably in the andantino - andante range.

 

I love em Mate-need to find a crank for mine.They've of course got electric models now, but nowhere near's lovely as the old ones.

 

Yeah i bet the modern jobbos don't have that sound (even morgans was sending me off a bit (hypnotised emoji)

is this where your missing the crank mate ?

 

i do kinda prefer the dark rosewood ones