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PIANOS/ORCHESTRIONS ------------------------------------------ Early Oak Mills Violano Virtuouso With Extra Expression. This is a fascinating early (serial number 853) example of these wonderful Violanos. It has the rare early extra expression mechanisms/functions: 1) three levels of expression on the piano rail; and 2) variable bow pressure system linked to the bow motor speed, providing a wider dynamic range. Great listening pleasure when restored! This example is working now, playing pretty well actually although out of tune. It needs a full mechanical restoration including new hammers/felts (moths got at them). There is a crack in the upper section of the plate but it doesn't go all the way to the thick frame/edge, appears to possibly have been a default in the original casting, and does not seem to affect the ability to tune the piano. Case is in generally fine but filthy condition, buy the top is borderline repair or revennuer - the veneer on this Violano is spectacular - highly figured quarter sawn oak, often times called "Tiger Oak". It has a very sweet sounding violin. One door knob is missing, the coin box cover door is missing and the glass partition is missing. It has the original converter (appears everything is original) that is working fine and surprisingly quietly. Rare opportunity to acquire an oak Violano with the early expression devices that were abandoned later on because of complications in servicing on commercial routes. With seven rolls. $26,500. Two "A" Style Coin Pianos - Coinola and Berry-Wood. We took these two coin pianos in with another item that we really wanted to buy, but these are taking up too much space for their value and we would like to move them out quickly so we are pricing them to sell. One is a Coinola with art glass, seems complete, missing bottom board, fall board is locked so I can't see the keyboard, photos:
The second one is a scarce Berry-Wood with nice etched and beveled glass, complete except missing the bottom board and the coin insert (and the coin mechanism?), some veneer is lifting, photos:
Buy either one for $1250 or buy the pair for @2,000. You arrange to have them picked up. One roll (on the machines) with each. [HOLD]
Group of Re-Cut Recordo Reproducing
Piano Rolls. 10 re-cut rolls. $25.
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------------------------------------------ OZ-57 Wonderful Gavioli Fairground Organ ex. Museum! Wonderful large and fabulous sounding Gavioli fairground organ with a delightful “dance” sound in many of the arrangements. Overall the façade is 15’ 4” wide by 11’ 2” high. Center section is 60” wide, 76” high, 63” deep, without top pieces. Side chests 34” wide, 76” high, 21” deep with out façade pieces. In addition there are side wings and top sections. Large and very decorative façade in a number of pieces, repainted with very nice decorative women and background scenes. Overall this spectacular organ façade is over fifteen feet wide! Includes three carved figures that are fairly recent creations – two bell ringers (probably made by Arthur Prinsen) and a conductor (we haven’t figured out how these were hooked up). 59 Key but sounds much larger. Playing very well, we have had it “tweaked” a bit – has not had a full restoration, but sounds and plays just great. This great organ has about 210 pipes as follows: 2 X 16 Cellos in the side cabinets; 2 X 16 Bourdon in the lower front; 2 X 16 Vox Celeste; 2 X 18 Violin; 18 Piccolors; 18 Trumpets; 6 Trombones; 6 Stopped Bass; 6 Octave Bass; 6 Cello Bass; 2 X 9 Accompaniment (9 Cello, 9 Stopped Flute), all operating with seven registers. An enormous amount of book music, approximately 135” – much of it brand new from Tom Meijer, one of the very best arrangers in Europe – this library of music is very valuable in itself. Provenance; This organ spent many years as the centerpiece aat Tom Fretty’s “Tom’s Country Market & Musical Museum” in Manly, Iowa and was seen and enjoyed by tens of thousands of visitors. [Now on permanent display at the Gavioli Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas]
OZ-59 BAB Band Organ. This neat organ is marked “BAB Organ Company, Brooklyn, NY”. This organ has plenty of power, and sounds great. May have had a drum at one time but doesn’t now. Plays BAB 46-note rolls (ten included). Three stops. Plain front, with approximately twelve rolls. $14,500.
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SMALL PIPE ORGANS
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Mechantiques – Marty & Elise Roenigk
The Crescent Hotel & Spa
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Antique Music Boxes
Fine Antique
Mechanical Musical Instruments For Sale
Mechantiques is the country's largest dealer in mechanical musical
instruments. We buy, sell and trade all forms of mechanical musical
instruments such as disc or cylinder type music boxes, musical clocks,
coin operated pianos (often called nickelodeons or orchestrions), band
organs, carousel organs, monkey organs, phonographs with horns, automata,
mechanical singing birds, organettes, etc. - anything in antique mechanical
music.
