Vintage Mechanical Music Machines from Sound Ideas is a trip down musical & machinery memory lane with a nostalgic nod to the fantastic innovators of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Sound Ideas recording team traveled to downtown historic Franklin, Pennsylvania to capture the style and whimsy of the antique mechanical musical instruments housed at the DeBence Antique Music Museum.
The DeBence collection is showcased along with a wide range of antiques and many of the instruments in the collection are very rare. For instance, the 1913 Berry-Wood A.O.W. is the last of its kind in existence; the Cremona J “Tall Case” is one of only a few manufactured; the 1927 Artizan Air-Calio is the last original example remaining; and the 1930 Wurlitzer 65 note band organ is the only one of its kind ever produced.
This slice of history and ground-breaking engineering is all available here, recorded live on scene as the automatons, one man bands, orchestrions and Wurlitzer machines played on.
Includes recordings of these 10 musical machines:
- 1904 Wellerhaus Fairground Organ
- 1905 Mills Racehorse Piano
- 1911 Mills Violin Virtuoso
- 1915 Cremona Style G Keyboard Orchestrion
- 1919 Wurlitzer Model 153 Military Band Organ
- 1920 Western Electric Mascot Nickelodeon Piano
- 1925 Nelson-Wiggin 4X Orchestrion Nickelodeon Piano
- 1927 Artizan Air-Callio Calliope
- 1930 Wurlitzer 65 Note Band Organ
- Raffin Street Organ
Features:
- Mechanical Music on Vintage Machines
- 33 tracks of public domain music
- Original recordings @ 24/96
- Available to purchase and download in 24/48 or 16/44.1 wav file format
- Fully embedded with metadata
- 1.1 GB at 24/48