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	Clayton's orchestrion: A rich echo of 19th-century whimsy
		These allow the sophisticated orchestrion to play favorite classical, operatic and popular tunes as it does at the end of every tour of the Frick mansion.
		In the 19th century, that collection was substantial, at a time when the orchestrion was a prized possession of the rich and the very rich.
		The numbers refer to the size of orchestrions made by Welte & Sohne; one is the smallest, 10 the largest.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20011103orchestrion1103p3.asp (547 words)

	Orchestrion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This orchestrion was springwound and converted in the early 1900 to electric using the springmotor.
		Moving waterfall, Zeppelin and on the bottom an automobile, a woman with children wagon and a motorbike and also everyting is illuminated.
		This orchestrion has it's original top part with all the percussions needed to play the ragtime or jazz-style music arrangements.
	www.swissmusicbox.com /showroom/10/Orchestrion.html (253 words)

	Orchestrion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name "orchestrion" has been applied to three different kinds of musical instruments:
		A chamber organ, designed by Abt Vogler in 1785, which in a space of 9 cub.
		London Illustrated News, Sept. 20, 1862: The Orchestrion by M.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orchestrion (226 words)

	MBSI.org : Glossary of Terms
		Barrel piano orchestrions, many of which were coin-operated, were noisier and were made for use in caf鳬 pubs, and similar establishments.
		Often in German orchestrion catalogs, a single rank of string pipes is described as having violin (highest treble section), viola, violoncello, and cello (lowest bass section) pipes, although violoncello and cello are synonymous from a strict usage viewpoint.
		In many coin pianos and orchestrions, the lowest bass piano notes are coupled to permit a better foundation of tone than would otherwise be possible from a 65-note music roll, for example.
	www.mbsi.org /glossary.php (5276 words)

	The Pianola Institute - History of the Pianola - Orchestrions
		Orchestrions were designed to imitate an orchestra by means of organ pipes and percussion instruments, though in some cases they were built around large upright pianos instead; early examples used pinned wooden barrels to provide the music which they played, while later versions had the advantage of perforated paper music rolls.
		Michael Welte of Vöhrenbach in the Black Forest created his first major orchestrion in 1857 for the Grand Duke of Baden, and in 1862 it was exhibited at the London International Exhibition on Industry and Art, when it was engraved for the Illustrated London News.
		Orchestrions can still be heard in museums, however, and, especially in the Netherlands and Belgium, the street organ survives as a tourist attraction, proving that Athanasius Kircher's ghost still walks the earth.
	www.pianola.org /history/history_orchestrions.cfm (1090 words)

	Activationist Learning
		Thus, Orchestrion is composed of two layers, a layer of emitter units that resembles Clavier and a layer of collector units where each collector unit takes the output of a number of emitter units as its input.
		Two variants planned at present are (1) outputs that are a fixed threshold function of the activations and (2) outputs that are identical to the respective activations (i.e., a simple sum of the inputs from the emitter units).
		The difference between Orchestrion and Clavier is that, in Clavier, the emitter units are connected one-to-one with the outputs, while, in Orchestrion, the emitter units are grouped into clusters and the outputs of all emitter units in the clusters are input into the collector units.
	www.unc.edu /~skemp/documents/connectionist/ActLearn/smkActLearn.html (14356 words)

	Welte Style 5 Concert Orchestrion in the Durward Center Collection
		The Welte Style 5 Concert Orchestrion was located near the front entryway in the grand stair hall, where it could greet guests and be heard throughout the house.
		The Welte orchestrion was sold in 1985 to Durward Center (of Baltimore, Maryland), a well known restorer and collector of Welte instruments.
		Once the Welte orchestrion was safely delivered to Durward Center's facility, it was erected and carefully studied, before any further kind of restoration work was attempted.
	www.mechanicalmusicpress.com /history/welte/wt5oc.htm (1327 words)

	Mechanical Music Machines
		While officially called a Orchestrion, the instrument is widely known as a 'Nickelodeon'.
		Orchestrion's faded into oblivion in the early 1900's due to the invention of the phonograph and radio.
		This particular coin operated Orchestrion was built in the 1970's by the Nickelodeon Piano Company of Huntsville Alabama and uses a O style paper roll spool frame produced by the Player Piano Company of Wichita Kansas.
	www.pinballhistory.com /music.html (849 words)

	Orchestrion Favorites: The Welte at the Pittsburgh Frick Museum
		An orchestrion is a self-playing pipe organ that imitates the sounds of orchestral instruments.
		The Frick Welte Style No. 6 concert orchestrion was purchased in 1892 at the recommendation of Mr.
		It is one of four still in existence and its original pneumatic mechanism was restored in 1991 by Durward R. Center of Baltimore.
	www.ohscatalog.org /orfravwelatp.html (90 words)

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		Or course, not all or even most orchestrions are full orchestral in the sense that a human orchestra is, but such instruments are a lot of fun anyway.
		For practical purposes most collectors today consider an orchestrion to be a pneumatically-operated instrument which contains a piano plus a number of other orchestral effects such as drums, a xylophone, a rank of pipes, or similar additions.
		Orchestrions of the mid-1920's were different from the earlier styles.
	www.pianorestorer.com /orchestrions.htm (760 words)

	Orchestrion - Wikipedia
		Die erstmalige Verwendung der Bezeichnung Orchestrion wird dem 1851 von dem Dresdner Friedrich Theodor Kaufmann erfundenen automatischen Musikinstrument zugeschrieben, welches als erstes ein ganzes Orchester simulierte.
		Berühmt wurde das 1862 von Michael Welte auf der Weltausstellung in London ausgestellte Instrument, dem von der Presse die Bezeichnung Orchestrion gegeben wurde und dessen Abbildung in zahlreichen Nachschlagewerken als Beispiel für die gesamte Instrumentengattung verwendet wurde.
		Auf der dortigen Herbstmesse 1908 stellte sie den Prototypen eines Geige spielenden Orchestrions vor, die Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orchestrion (618 words)

	Listen To The Grand Welte Cottage Orchestrion
		Welte Cottage Orchestrion. It was purchased in 1905 by
		When Mary traveled to Keystone Bluff, the winter estate in Jacksonville, Florida, the orchestrion accompanied her. It was taken apart in 3 pieces, placed in crates, and transported to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station across the Lehigh River. When Mary came home, so did the orchestrion.
		The cost to ship the orchestrion and the two trunks of music by train to Florida amounted to $2.50. It was free transport up until the Georgia border as
	www.asapackermansion.com /orchestrion.html (203 words)

	ORCHESTRION - Online Information article about ORCHESTRION
		ORCHESTRION, a name applied to three different kinds of See also:
		This orchestrion comprised two manuals of 65 keys and 25 pedals, all of which could be used either independently or coupled.
		There were 21 stops, 230 strings and 36o pipes which produced 105 different combinations.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/ORCHESTRION.html (248 words)

	Rockford Register Star - Rockford's Newspaper and Website - Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is a 1920 orchestrion player piano donated by Bob and Betty Edwards of Poplar Grove, and it got its first public viewing Friday during the museum’s open house for Hometown Christmas.
		Edwards’ research has found that orchestrions, once common in bars and cafes, were built in the United States beginning around 1912.
		The orchestrion played often Friday night at the museum as people followed the music to see where it was coming from.
	www.rrstar.com /opinion/columnists/doyle/20031211-2553.shtml (552 words)

	79.5647 Rare Turn-of-the-Century Imhof & Mukle Orchestrion Music ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Imhof and Mukle was established in Germany in 1845 and was a major builder of large automatic orchestras (orchestrions).
		This is one of the larger machines of which few survived and even fewer made it across the long ocean voyage.
		This orchestrion has a variety of pipes simulating flutes, violins and clarinets.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,,450657.html (235 words)

	Catalogue item #430502648: Trumpet Orchestrion by Imhof & Muckle
		Trumpet orchestrion by Imhof & Muckle made in london about 1870 for the Maharaja of Ambala in northern India.
		Playing six spirally pinned barrels of European and American classical tunes and popular songs.This is a fifty-eight key orchestrion, with a total of 152 pipes, consisting of 48 wood, 86 tin and 18 brass pipes arranged in six rows, together with 12 graduated tuned bells, 1 triangle and a snare drum with four drum sticks.
		The orchestrion is powered by a weight which falls down a channel at the back of the instrument, connected over pulleys by a wire rope with a massive, hand cranked clockwork motor which drives a bellows consisting of four feeders plus a reservoir.
	www.earlytech.com /common/show_item.phtml?Id=430502648 (268 words)

	Violano - vituoso
		Plantation sold Imhofs to Philcom but retained ownership of the orchestrion and wrote to the Museum to announce that they were to sell it at auction.
		Two other Imhof & Mukle orchestrions in the collection are No.2626 (c1880) and No.3327 (c1901) - the latter is without casework and the former works from a pin barrel (neither is in playing condition at present).
		The last orchestrion was made in 1928 so it is doubtful if any/many were imported between 1919 and 1928.
	www.musicalmuseum.co.uk /imhof.html (796 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		An orchestrion is a band in a box, a huge cabinet with a player piano and other automatic instruments inside--including hanging drums and triangles, a pipe organ, a violin, and a xylophone that plays like a machine gun.
		Two lovers sit on a player piano bench, pumping the pedals with their feet and singing "I wanna hear it again, I wanna hear it again." Each time the song roll goes around, the two people get closer, until the piano collapses out of exhaustion.
		Through a ritual of repetition, counting, and ordering, I wanted to make the Dresher ensemble as visible as an orchestrion, its wires and boxes into pulleys and triggers, the score and headphones a kind of piano roll that blows air through them.
	www.music.princeton.edu /~nick/127studies.html (220 words)

	MMM GmbH - Weber Maesto Orchestrion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For the lover of music whether classical or 1920's jazz, the electric thrill experienced while listening to a Weber Maesto remains as exciting today as it was in the 1920's when the Maesto was first introduced.
		"This instrument is considered by many to be the outstanding example ot the orchestrion builders of a bygone day, because it was built very late in the game, and every know device was incorporated to insure that it would resemble as closely as possible a human orchestra.
		The Weber Maesto Orchestrion is built by Seigfried and Jorg Wendel at their factory in Rudesheim Germany.
	members.aol.com /tgcnc/wendel.htm (435 words)

	Harmonie Orchestrion
		A name was sought for the instrument and whilst hunting through a travel brochure for the Vienna region (which was also the inspiration for the Alpine decoration), the name ‘Harmonie Hotel’ was found, giving as their claim to fame, that the composer Strauss had once stayed there!
		The Harmonie Orchestrion has proved to be extremely popular when playing in public, especially with the younger generation, who really enjoy the sound and are fascinated by the movements of all the different instruments when the orchestrion is playing, without having to strain their necks looking up.
		An ‘Orchestrion’ is an automatic player instrument, comprised of a variety of different instrument types.
	www.george2003.plus.com /harmonie.html (572 words)

	Bursens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In between our daily pursuits we work on a total overhaul of an original 86 key Joseph Bursens orchestrion built in the beginning of the last century.
		We know of only one other orchestrion of this type that survived during the years.
		Below you see three pictures of the orchestrion in unrestored condition.
	www.bandorgan.com /Bursens.htm (99 words)

	Orchestrion Series \| Russian National Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The concerts take place in the RNO's newly-renovated Orchestrion, a former movie theater located at ulitsa Garibaldi 19, near Moscow's Novye Cheremyshki metro station.
		The Orchestrion, which the RNO rents from the City of Moscow, seats 480 and offers some of the best concert hall acoustics in Moscow.
		Musical Wednesdays at the Orchestrion is both multifaceted and diverse.
	www.russianarts.org /rno/pr022205.cfm (176 words)

	MMD Archives: Welte Orchestrion in Henry Clay Frick Mansion
		It's possible that the orchestrion in question is the one at Clayton, the Henry Clay Frick mansion, now the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Frick was an associate of Andrew Carnegie at the turn of the 19th/20th century.
		The orchestrion, however, is a Welte and Sohne Size 6 orchestrion, purchased by Frick in 1892 for $6,000.
		In 1998, in a (failed) attempt to organize a Western Pennsylvania chapter of AMICA, a group of mechanical music aficionados was treated to a half-hour concert on the orchestrion.
	mmd.foxtail.com /Archives/Digests/200002/2000.02.23.08.html (314 words)

	Squeezytunes: Orchestrions
		Usually coin operated, an orchestrion is a player piano that is outfitted with additional automatically controlled instruments such as pipes, xylophones, drums, cymbals, glockenspiels, triangles, wood blocks, tambourines and other instruments and effects.
		Orchestrions often have beautiful, ornate cases and art glass.
		Update: each Orchestrion attracted just one bid, each of £1000 - which is what they sold for.
	squeezyboy.blogs.com /squeezytunes/2006/01/only_on_ebay_or.html (162 words)

	Jessica Murray Projects : Current Exhibitions
		Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce Orchestrion, by David Ellis.
		The score for this video will be played by Ellis’ kinetic orchestra of sculptural instruments created from recycled industrial materials that play as ensemble in the gallery.
		Orchestrion will travel to the Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati in January as part of their on-going contemporary series Gadget: Mechanics and Motion in Contemporary Art.
	www.jessicamurrayprojects.com /pressDavidEllis2005.html (280 words)

	BUSO - History
		After World War I, the recording techniques were refined in America; soon enough, virtually every prominent organist could be heard on player rolls.
		At Boston University, roll - operated performances range from orchestrion arrangements made in the early 1880s to popular music of the 1930s.
		The early Welte recordings are particularly significant, as the artists were late Victorians, some of whom were born as early as 1865.
	www.nbarden.com /buso/history.html (1916 words)

	Seeburg G Orchestrion
		One such instrument is the Seeburg style G orchestrion.
		The orchestrion has a piano, one large rank of violin pipes, another rank of flute pipes, a bass drum with additional tympani strikers, a mandolin rail, a triangle, and a cymbal.
		Seeburg G Orchestrions are still coming out of the "wood work".
	mmd.foxtail.com /Pictures/seeburgG.html (813 words)

	The Harmonie Orchestrion
		One of the tricks we can do, is linking the Orchestrion to Georges Pell 48 Organ, via MIDI and playing both organs from the same music.
		This required a special ‘keymap’ in the Keymaster system to map the Orchestrion to the Pell scale.
		Once mapped, the Keymaster has a MIDI output, which is fed to the Pell.
	www.midioli.uku.co.uk /page16.html (386 words)

	Orchestrion at the National Music Museum
		Douglas and Phyllis Adam of Yankton, South Dakota, who donated this valuable piece of Americana to the Museum, promised that "nobody can listen to it without smiling," and they were right.
		Often called nickelodeons, because they play automatically each time a nickel is dropped into the slot, orchestrions were popular in restaurants, hotel lobbies, and saloons.
		Left: This leaded art glass panel inclues a pastoral scene with a cabin under some trees on the shore of a lake with a mountain in the background.
	www.usd.edu /smm/orchestrion.html (411 words)

	The 'Spirit of Independence' Orchestrion
		The entire system is configured to operate from one of two independent 'O' roll frames that automatically shift back and forth between 2 orchestrion rolls (20-30) songs.
		The quality of the music is better than the finest European orchestrions I've ever heard, and the note and percussive responsiveness is fast-as-lightning.
		I'll go way out on a limb and say that one day, SOFI will be recognized as the ultimate in orchestrions.
	www.player-care.com /dingling.html (1271 words)

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