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THE CUCKOO CLOCK
(R8x32)
Ian Barbour Repeat Prescription
1- 8
1s+2s+3s
dance
reels
on
own
sides
with
1s
dancing
in
&
down,
2s
dancing out & up, 3s dancing in & up to start
9-16
1s+2s dance double Fig of 8
17-20
1s
dance
down
middle,
cross
over
&
cast
up
to
2
nd
place
on
opposite
side
as
2s set & cross RH to 3
rd
place on opposite side
as
3s cast up to 1
st
place & cross RH to opposite side
(all
as
Muirland Willie)
21-24
3s+1s+2s turn partners RH once round
25-32
3s+1s+2s Set+Link for 3 twice
A
cuckoo
clock,
which
strikes
the
hours
with
a
sound
like
a
common
cuckoo's
call,
often
has
a
mechanical
cuckoo
that
emerges
with
each
note.
The
mechanism
to
produce
the
cuckoo
call
was
installed
in
almost
every
kind
of
cuckoo clock since the middle of the 18th century and has remained almost without variation, until the present.
The
first
timepiece
with
an
automaton
bird
is
credited
to
the
Greek
mathematician,
Ctesibius
of
Alexandria
(c.285-222
BC).
According
to
“The
Rise
and
Fall
of
Alexandria:
Birthplace
of
the
Modern
World”
by
Justin
Pollard
and Howard Reid:
Ctesibius
"used
water
to
sound
a
whistle
and
make
a
model
owl
move.
Soon
Ctesibius's
clocks
were
smothered
in
stopcocks
and
valves,
controlling
a
host
of
devices
from
bells
to
puppets
to
mechanical
doves that sang to mark the passing of each hour - the very first cuckoo clock!”
Later,
around
800AD,
the
caliph
of
Baghdad,
Harun
al-Rashid,
presented
Charlemagne
with
a
clock,
out
of
which
came a mechanical bird to announce the hours.
In
1352-4
the
first
astronomical
clock
of
Strasbourg
cathedral
was
erected.
Known
as
the
Three
Kings
Clock,
it
had
several
automata
including
a
gilded
rooster.
This
bird,
a
symbol
of
Christ’s
passion,
was
made
of
iron,
copper
and
wood.
At
noon,
it
flapped
its
wings,
spread
out
its
feathers,
opened
its
beak,
put
out
its
tongue,
and
by
means of a bellows and reed, it crowed!
The
legend
that
the
cuckoo
clock
was
invented
by
a
clever
Black
Forest
mechanic
in
1730
(Franz
Anton
Ketterer)
is
oft
repeated,
but
clearly
not
true.
Franz
Anton
Ketterer
was
not
born
until
1734!
In
1629,
many
decades
before
clock-making
was
established
in
the
Black
Forest,
an
Augsburg
nobleman,
Philipp
Hainhofer
(1578–1647),
wrote
the
first
known
description
of
a
modern
cuckoo
clock
which
belonged
to
Prince
Elector
August
von
Sachsen.
Other
publications
-
Musurgia
Universalis
(1650),
by
Athanasius
Kircher
and
the
1669
handbook
on
elementary
clocks
"Horologi
Elementari"
by
Domenico
Martinelli
-
were
describing
the
cuckoo
mechanism
up
to
a
century
before
people in the Black Forest started to build cuckoo clocks.
Although
the
idea
of
placing
an
automaton
cuckoo
bird
in
a
clock
did
not
originate
in
the
Black
Forest,
the
cuckoo
clock
as
we
know
it
today,
comes
from
this
region
located
in
south-west
Germany
whose
tradition
of
clock-making
started
in
the
late
17th
century.
The
Black
Forest
people
who
created
the
cuckoo
clock
industry
developed it, and still come up with new designs and technical improvements.
With
the
invention
of
quartz
timepieces,
sales
of
all
types
of
mechanical
clocks
dwindled
and
hand
made
Black
Forest
cuckoo
clocks
were
less
attractive
in
competition
with
factory
made
mass-produced
Quartz
movement
cuckoo
clocks
flooding
the
market
from
all
over
the
world.
In
1987,
“Verein
die
Schwarzwalduhr"
(VDS)
(The
Black
Forest
Clock
Association)
was
set
up
to
protect
traditional
mechanical
cuckoo
clock
making
in
the
Triberg
and
Titisee-Neustadt
regions.
Certification
from
the
association
is
awarded
only
to
mechanical
clocks
made
entirely
of
wood
(except
the
movements),
with
all
essential
parts
produced
in
the
Black
Forest
that
meet
quality
controls
set
by
the
association,
and
the
members
of
the
association
represent
around
90%
of
all
producers
of
Black Forest Clocks, the majority of the world's mechanical cuckoo clock manufacture.
