Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Cuckoo Clock



I was doing shopping and I found one cute small magnetic cuckoo clock and my husband decided to buy it as remembrance. I liked cuckoo clock a lot and I wanted to buy a bigger one but it is expensive because they designed it and made it meticulously. Nowadays, the cuckoo clocks are made in traditional style to hang on the wall and the wooden care is decorated with carved leaves and animals. There are two kinds of movements: a one-day movement and an eight-day movement. Some have musical movements, and play a tune on a Swiss music box after striking the hours and half-hours. The melody sounds only at full hours in the eight-day clocks and both at full hours and half hours in one-day clocks. Musical cuckoo clocks frequently have other automatisms, which move when the music box plays.
I remember when we were in Lucerne, Switzerland when we were walking around the town, we found some stores sells cuckoo clock, watching those clocks really interests me, they are look colorful and beautiful, and perhaps one day my husband and I will get one.

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