Sunday, June 10, 2007

Mechanical Musical instruments - Nethercutt

"The Nethercutt collection is a world-class treasure house of prize winning automobiles, automobilia, and mechanical musical instruments. The heart of this 'functional fine art' collection contains over 200 meticulously restored American and European automobiles dating from 1898 to 1982."

This collection boils the excitement in the blood of any futurist. This spycam picks up the following:

1. an Ampico reproducing piano (where the player mechanism fits in a drawer below the keys),
2. "Vorsetzer" player piano (where the player mechanism is actually a turn-of-the-century robot that plays any piano - it sits in front of the piano and plays it with 88 fingers)
3. a quick shot of a Regina music box with automatic disc changer
4. some smaller orchestrions
5. an automatic banjo
6. a large orchestrion playing with closeups of the bellow action
7. some classic automobiles in a palatial showroom
8. an old battery charger and electric car from about 1905



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