What are Cuckoo clocks?

Cuckoo clock, reminiscent of cottage houses, use of weights and pendulums to keep the time and sound of the cuckoo call every hour over the bellows. These carved, collectors' clocks came from the Black Forest area in Germany, where together the talents of carpenters and clock manufacturers together created a significant watch. Most of the peak hours have folk mechanical parts, such as a bird jumping out of the window or lumber mowing on the tree.

During the long snowy winters in the black forest of the 17th century, people could no longer farm, cut wood or trade. In a significant convergence of various crafts, knowledge of lessons controlled by devices has met complex carpentry. Hours, filtering in Europe, just began to replace the sundial as precise methods of determination of the daily time. He mounted the inner on the miniature, decorated wooden house looked like the surrounding cottages, so began a long tradition of cuckoo creation in the region.

One can still find antique clocks from the black forest, but more often there are modernized versions that use quartz crystals or springs to maintain time. Original cuckoo clocks connect hanging weights, usually in the form of brown pine cone. During the week, one weight decreases and the other rises and turns the internal mechanisms. If you want the "wind" for hours, you will return the highest weight to your lowest position.

Of course, the most important feature of the cuckoo clock is the sun birds and their accompanying calls. In an hour and sometimes half an hour, the upper window opened in the cottage, which allowed a small bird to go and crouch the correct number of time to announce time. Other mechanized parts can also grow into activity, such as two lumber, which dealt with a protocol, a farmer who has butter, a dog chasing a squirrel, a blacksmith who hammers an anvil or a lover that appears in the Serenade window.