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Built at the end of the 19th century, this clockwork contraption is no mere music box – the complexity of the ‘song’  and variation in tone and pitch combine to make a completely realistic bird song. Built in Paris, possibly by master automaton maker, Blaise Bontems.

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If you like your farmyard impressions (and who doesn’t?), this charming fellow from India is the voice of ’em all.

Redditor cynicalbrownie usefully provides the following  translation:

A dog; when you hit the dog with a stick and it gets hurt.; a cockerel; when a hen lays an egg; a female goat; goat baby; cow; think he is talking about a crow; a mountainous crow?; a horse; a horse cart(tanga); when a dog wants you to take him to the latrine, and finally, when at first the dog tries to show he is brave but is not.

Nailed.

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