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Two Story Swiss Chalet Music Jewelry Box With Amazing Detail--Roof Opens For Tune, "Edelweiss"-with Auto Shut-off --VIDEO The sound of the tune is so clear and sweet.
VIDEO with No doubt, this music box took many hours and many different parts to construct. The chalet is beautifully made, with great detail and beautiful flowers beneath the windows and all along the second story railing. The green felt-lined jewelry box makes this a functional antique as well as a cherished collectable.
This music box has a rare and very nice feature that allows the tune to finish when the roof is closed and automatically shuts off.
Beautifully made, the chalet has a bench, a horse watering trough, fireplace logs and flowers decorating the stairway to the second story and under every window. A formally dressed lady in yellow stands nea the door.
Chalet Size: About 7" W x 4" D x 5" H.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE STONES ON THE ROOF?Placing stones on the roof is an actual Swiss feature on many chalets to hold the roof sheathing in place during the high Alpine winds.
A VERY NICE HOUSE-WARMING GIFT!
ABOUT THE TUNE: EDELWEISS While The Sound of Music was in tryouts in Boston, Richard Rodgers felt Captain von Trapp should have a song with which he would offer farewell to the Austria he knew and loved. Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II decided to write an extra song that von Trapp would sing in the festival concert sequence towards the end of the show. As they were writing it, they felt this song could also use the guitar-playing and folk-singing talents of Theodore Bikel, who had been cast as the Captain. The Lindsay and Crouse script provides the metaphor of the simple edelweiss wildflower as a symbol of the Austria that Captain von Trapp, Maria, and their children knew would live on, in their hearts, despite the Nazi annexation of their homeland. The metaphor of this song builds on an earlier scene when Gretl presents a bouquet of edelweiss flowers to Baroness Elsa Schräder, during the latter's visit to the von Trapp household. Rodgers provided a simple, yet haunting and affecting, waltz-time melody, to the simple Italian style ritornello lyric that Hammerstein wrote about the appearance of the edelweiss flower. "Edelweiss" turned out to be one of the most beloved songs in the musical, as well as one of the best-loved songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein. "Edelweiss" is the last song Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote together; Hammerstein was suffering from stomach cancer, which took his life nine months after The Sound of Music opened on Broadway.
[Suggest winding the music box a max of 3 or 4 half-turns to preserve the Swiss movement.
