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An 8 day Cuckoo clock. Where do the connecting wires connect from the movement to the bellows and bird?

May 31, 2006 by Mike W | Posted in Hobbies & Crafts

I have been asked to refurbish an old 8 day “Hunters Dead” Cuckoo clock. Unfortunately several pieces are missing. All of the connecting wires are gone so will be making those from my wire stock.

Here is a link to a diagram that might help:
http://www.theclockdepot.com/cuckoo_cloc ks/cuckoo_clock_owners_manual_5_repairs- shipping.html

If that doesn't help try these search lists:
http://www.google.com/search?

Cuckoo History

by crosavel

What is a cuckoo clock?

A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours using small bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo in addition to striking a wire gong. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since mid eighteenth century, and has remained almost the same through the years.

Who came up with the idea?

In 1629 the first known description of a cuckoo clock was penned by an Augsburg nobleman by the name of Philipp Hainhofer. In 1650 a widely known handbook on music called Musurgia Universalis was published, and inside the scholar Athanasius Kircher describes a mechanical organ with several automated figures, including a mechanical cuckoo. This book is the first to document with words and pictures how a mechanical cuckoo works. The bird automatically opens its beak and moves both its wings and tail. Simultaneously, we hear the call of the cuckoo, created by two organ pipes, tuned to a minor or major third.

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