Today we had a slightly lazy morning and then went off to Ruddesheim, a small town across the Rhine from Bingen, the nearest major town to Bacharach. Once we reached Ruddesheim we headed off to ‘Siegfried’s Mechanisches Musikkabinett’ (or Siegfried’s mechanical music cabinet, if you hadn’t picked that up).
Once we reached the museum/collection, which was housed in a large house that was possibly as early as the 1500’s. Inside the house they had an AMAZING collection of mechanical instruments like pianos that could play by themselves, a mechanical instrument involving an piano and six violins, an original Thomas Edison manufactured gramophone and a large set-up designed for a merry-go-round in Budapest, which was the only one like it in the world and was completely powered by compressed air, requiring someone to ‘pump the bellows’. What I thought was the most impressive, though was the Maestro, which was a combination of 11 or so (maybe even more) instruments like piano, violin, trumpet, xylophone, various horns and a small drum kit with a symbol and a few drums.
After Siegfried’s we went to find some lunch in a Christmas Market. Once we did that we went to the Ruddesheim toy museum, just for want of something to do and somewhere warm to go. It wasn’t all that exciting and wasn’t nearly as good as in Nuremburg, though it did have different types of toys. It was fun just going around and saying “we saw that in Nuremburg”.
When we had finished in the toy museum we caught the ferry back to the railway station and travelled back to where we were staying.
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