musical clock

A clock equipped with a mechanical organ. For sounds produced by a clock equipped with a carillon or other chiming mechanism use [clock chimes.]

found: New Grove Dict. of Mus. Inst.(Musical clock; a clock combined with a mechanical instrument, carillons, or other chiming mechanisms or mechanical organs. The latter type: flute-playing clocks; Ger.: Flötenuhr; there is also a harp-playing clock)

found: Terminorum musicae index(Flötenuhr; Flötenwerk; Laufwerk; musical clock; Spieluhr)

found: LC database: Mozart, W.A. Fantasia in F minor for organ (mechanical clock-organ), K. 608.

found: LC database: Haydn, J. Fourteen pieces for the mechanical clock-organ of 1793.

found: Mechanical musical digest WWW site, Oct. 13, 2004:Archives/Clock organ ([installed] a huge Grandfather clock with a built-in organ w/ 22 stopped wooden flute pipes which play off a pinned cylinder)

found: New Grove Online May 9, 2013:musical clock (clock combined with one or more forms of Mechanical instrument which plays music at regular time-intervals. Unlike the chiming clock .., with which it is frequently confused, the musical clock’s performance is normally separate from the hourly chiming sequence, and can be selected automatically or manually (sometimes a choice is offered) from a repertory of tunes provided on a pinned wooden or metal barrel or cylinder as in the Barrel organ or Musical box.)"

A clock equipped with a mechanical organ. For sounds produced by a clock equipped with a carillon or other chiming mechanism use [clock chimes.]