Mechanical Music Articles and Stories

Personal Stories and Technical Articles

on the Subject of Mechanical Music

Introduction

Enjoy the history of automatic music through personal stories and assorted technical articles. Each of the mechanical music oriented articles contained within this section stand on their own and depict some aspect of the colorful mechanical music world. This section is divided into two main parts:

• Articles and Stories. This part consists of personal stories, which have been written by respected authors who were at one time or another very active and/or influential in the field of automatic musical instruments, with their participation involving some combination of collecting, restoring, and/or dealing in historic mechanical music items.
• Technical Articles. These can be anything of a strictly technical nature that relates to mechanical music, whether it be from a historical reprint, or a casual, formal, or studied manuscript.

Additional stories and technical articles will be added as availability permits.

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Credits:

Comments by Terry Hathaway

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