Thursday, July 26, 2018

History of Musical Instruments Rare Gramofon Comets in the Kingdom of Siak and There Are Only Two in the World

TOURS.ID - Gramofon Comets There Are Only Two in the World


Siak Palace, City-Riau Siak Sri Indrapura in which there are many objects of historic classics. One of them contained a sort of gramophone musical instrument called 'comet'. It is said that musical instruments brought by Sultan Siak XI named Sultan Syarif Hasyim Abdul Jalil Assyaidis of Germany there are only two in the world. Namely in Germany and Siak.

Source of music used in the form of discs made of iron circular. Not much different from the gramophone to play a musical instrument brought to Siak since 1896 must be rotated manually first. The music of the classical instruments of famous composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss can be heard in the disk of the steel. To produce beautiful and melodious sound, this steel plate in the holes such that when part of the comet touches will pit exit tones. 

In the musical instrument in writing an explanation, the "Comet, a kind of music gramophone plate made of steel which consists of music classical instruments Germany VIII century creation of famous composers Beethoven, Mozart, and Strauss brought by Sultan Siak XI in 1896 from a trip to Europe. 

It is estimated that the steel disc of weighing up to 5 kg, the instrument height of 3 meters and a width of about 90 cm. For travelers who want to palace has another name Asyeriyah Hasyimiah this, to get to that location can be reached about three to four hours from the city of Pekanbaru, Riau.



In addition to storing classical objects such as comets, palace was built in 1889, there are various other collections include replicas therein Siak royal crown, a collection of weapons that were used by kings, gramophone musical instruments, sculpture Wihelmina and a banquet room.


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