Music Without Musicians
Hudba bez hudebníků
Hořovice Castle
Music Without Musicians is located in Czech Republic
Music Without Musicians
Location within Czech Republic
LocationVrbnovská 22, Hořovice
Coordinates49°50′19.36″N 13°54′33.51″E / 49.8387111°N 13.9093083°E / 49.8387111; 13.9093083
TypeMusic instruments exposition
CollectionsMechanical music instruments
OwnerCzech Music Museum
Websitewww.zamek-horovice.cz

Music Without Musicians – music boxes and juke boxes (Czech: Hudba bez hudebníků – hrací strojky a hudební automaty) was an exposition in Hořovice Castle in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It was dedicated to music instruments that need no musicians to produce music.[1][2]

Collection

The exposition showed a collection of mechanical music instruments from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. The collection consisted of jukeboxes, music boxes, mechanical paintings (tableaux animés), barrel organs, polyphons, orchestrions and more different instruments.[1][2]

Background

The exposition was situated in the former castle kitchen of Hořovice Castle. It was part of the Czech Music Museum at Prague that provided the collection to the museum.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hudba bez hudebníků – hrací strojky a hudební automaty". Rodinné výlety (in Czech). 21 August 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Hudba bez hudebníků - hrací strojky a hudební automaty". Portal Hořovice (in Czech). n.d. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
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