And it’s not just because the walls are packed with paintings. It’s also the Victorian automatic musical instruments. With the exception of the bathroom, there are the instruments in every room of the ...

Inside a 16,000-square-foot, red-brick and sheet-metal building lies a treasure trove of antique automated musical instruments and machines once popular in parlors, drawing rooms, restaurants and ...

Jasper Sanfilippo built his family's nut business into a publicly traded company that last year had $876 million in sales. However, it is his passion for musical instruments, particularly mechanical ...

Ken Caulkins is pictured on Thursday morning (05-08-14) at his shop in Ceres, Ca. with his Ragtime Castaway Band. Caulkins is an automated entertainment specialist who started making player pianos in ...

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Musicians throughout the ages have wrestled with the question of creative control, and in our modern age, some have found an answer in technology. The field of automatic music — ...

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UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok ...