Pawn in Frankincense - clock question

[Jayne]

I was trying to describe to someone the clock that Marthe and Gaultier were tending on board ship. My copies are in storage. Can anyone find the first description of the clock and help me out by typing it here?

Thanks.

[Sam]

PIF and the rest of the books are in "Google Books". You can search for any word in the whole text. Pretty cool. This is the link, for the search of "clock" there are 9 results.

http://books.google.com/books?id=vOGU...

[Sam]

Oops, it's still the search for OOnagh. On the left type in clock and it will search the book for you.

[Jayne]

Thanks, Sam. I'm surprised it's so little described - only three mentions - but as usual it's as vividly detailed as any other part of the Dunnett universe.

[Sam]

Do a search for "spinet". It isn't always referred to as a clock.

[Mackay]

Jayne wrote: "I was trying to describe to someone the clock that Marthe and Gaultier were tending on board ship. My copies are in storage. Can anyone find the first description of the clock and help me out by ty..."

Not a clock, a spinet (small musical instrument like a piano before piano) with clockwork mechanisms that moved when opened and played, all bejeweled.

[Zorro]

Like a music box!? but bigger?

[Sam]

Like a coo coo clock that plays music

[Laura]

There are pictures on the web of a similar clock/spinet. I found them once...

[Susan]

there is an elephant clock that matches the description in a museum in Istanbul. it is the museum of Islamic Science I think.