always the end of the music must be awaited
Saturday 19 May 2007 | I like a cookie
My father decided that what the Brujo and I really needed, presumably to keep us from wandering lost in the Sonoran, was a GPS unit. In the package also were, inexplicably, these extremely Teutonic instructions for the assemblage of an authentic Black Forest cuckoo clock (did my parents actually purchase one of these? or did some absent-minded factory worker insert them along with the GPS manual?). See, I haven’t even been taking Abilify for an hour yet and already I have something more positive to offer.
This is an original Black Forest Cuckoo Clock. It is driven by a mechanical clock movement and has been produced in the Black Forest including their most important parts. Therefore this Cuckoo Clock fulfills the quality requirements for the Black Forest Clock Association.
Before hanging up the clock carefully read these operating instructions. It is very important to apply exactly the procedure described therein.
Unpack with care! When removing the clock from the carton please hold it at the roof. Also take out the loose accessoires [sic] such as pendulum, weights a.s.o. [Here “und so weit” is presumably translated as “and so on,” and then reabbreviated à la Deutschland.] Please do not open the small paper-bag fixed to the bottom of the clock! [Because that’s where the flesh-eating bacteria are kept.]
Lay down the clock with the face downwards and turn aside the bolt (A) and the back wall. Bring a nail or screw driver into the slit (B) and gently lift out the back panel.
Take away the paper strip from the chime spring (5). Remove—depending on the model—one or two clamps fixing the bellows (6). Please take care that no wire of the clock will be bent or damaged.
Now hang up the clock (10) on a strong nail or screw which is fixed to the wall in a height of about 2 meters from the floor (11). [Is illustration 11 really necessary?]
Open the packet (8) underneath the clock [finally!] containing the chains [ah] and pull out the wire. Possible knots in the chains should be undone very cautiously. Please notice that henceforth the clock must not be put down or turned upside down—otherwise the chains will slip off from the chain-wheels. In case one chain has slid from the chain-wheel please take your clock to a watch-maker, or pay attention to the following remarks:
The chain can be replaced again by fully wounding up the other weights and hooking them off; hereafter the clock must be turned upside down and the chain has to be balanced upon the chain-wheel; it is advisable to open once again the back panel in order to observe the replacing of the chain on the chain-wheel through the chain holes in the clock case. [You just observe it, you don’t actually do it.]
Remove the wire which locks the door of the cuckoo (7); in case of Music-Cuckoo-Clocks two wires must be removed.
For setting the correct time turn the minute-hand around to the left. Do never move the hour-hand. If you turn the minute-hand around to the right you have to await the end of the cuckoo-strikes. In ease of a music-clock always the end of the music must be awaited.
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