orchestrions.json

[ { "city": "London (Brentford)", "country": "UK", "venue": "The Musical Museum (Brentford)", "latitude": 51.4887174, "longitude": -0.3138261, "description": "Imhof & Mukle pipe-organ orchestrion (1899) with multiple registers and percussion (drums, tambourine, triangle) (www.soundsurvey.org.uk).", "history": "Built in London c.1899 by Imhof & Mukle; remained in their Oxford Street showroom until company collapse in the 1970s, when it was acquired by the Brentford Musical Museum (www.soundsurvey.org.uk).", "notes": "The museum advertises that the soprano Adelina Patti used a similar Imhof orchestrion at her home in Wales (www.soundsurvey.org.uk)." }, { "city": "Rum (Isle of Rùm)", "country": "UK (Scotland)", "venue": "Kinloch Castle (Maritime Museum)", "latitude": 57.0136443, "longitude": -6.2819933, "description": "Swiss Imhof & Mukle concert orchestrion (c.1900) with 108 tracker channels (88 notes + percussion) and 264 organ pipes, designed to mimic a full orchestra (kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk).", "history": "Originally commissioned by Queen Victoria for Balmoral (never delivered); purchased in the early 20th century by Sir George Bullough for Kinloch Castle (kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk).", "notes": "One of only three of its model ever built, it is nicknamed 'Queen Victoria’s Orchestrion' (kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk)." }, { "city": "Utrecht", "country": "Netherlands", "venue": "Museum Speelklok", "latitude": 52.0877, "longitude": 5.1182, "description": "Cylinder orchestrion by S. Heizmann (c.1890) with embedded trumpets and percussion, coin-operated for dance halls (www.museumspeelklok.nl).", "history": "Built by Sigmund Heizmann (Vöhrenbach, Baden); acquired by Museum Speelklok.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Utrecht", "country": "Netherlands", "venue": "Museum Speelklok", "latitude": 52.0877, "longitude": 5.1182, "description": "Lochmann Original Concertino disc orchestrion (c.1910) featuring a toothed comb mechanism, strings section, tubular bells, two drums and a cymbal (www.museumspeelklok.nl).", "history": "Built by Friedrich Lochmann (Germany); part of Speelklok’s disc-orchestrion collection.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Utrecht", "country": "Netherlands", "venue": "Museum Speelklok", "latitude": 52.0877, "longitude": 5.1182, "description": "Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina (c.1925) pianola-based orchestrion topped with a dome housing three violins (played by a single bow) (www.museumspeelklok.nl).", "history": "Made by M. Hupfeld (Germany) in mid-1920s; acquired by Speelklok.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Utrecht", "country": "Netherlands", "venue": "Museum Speelklok", "latitude": 52.0877, "longitude": 5.1182, "description": "Philipps Paganini orchestrion (1921), including organ, piano, harmonium, metallophone and extensive percussion with a 10-roll revolver system (www.museumspeelklok.nl).", "history": "Built by Gebr. Philipps (Germany) around 1920; part of original Speelklok collection.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Berlin", "country": "Germany", "venue": "Stadtmuseum Berlin (Märkisches Museum)", "latitude": 52.538, "longitude": 13.411, "description": "“Fratihymnia” orchestrion (c.1900) by Cocchi, Bacigalupo & Graffigna (Berlin), a cabinet instrument mimicking a chamber orchestra (www.berlin.de).", "history": "Played in a Schönhauser Allee restaurant from 1919–1954 (www.stadtmuseum.de); now in Stadtmuseum collection.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Coinola Style O orchestrion (USA, early 1900s) – a large coin-operated orchestrion with art-glass facade (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Restored and on display in Sanfilippo’s American Orchestrion Room.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Peerless Wisteria orchestrion (American, wisteria glass front panel) (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Restored and displayed alongside other Peerless models at Sanfilippo.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Peerless Arcadian orchestrion, ornately carved with hanging lamps (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Restored and displayed at Sanfilippo.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Peerless Elite orchestrion (with flute pipes) (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Restored and on display.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Cremona Model J (Byzantine-case) orchestrion (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "On display in restored condition.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Seeburg Model G orchestrion (from San Francisco’s Valente Nickelodeons) (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Fully restored in Sanfilippo collection.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Multiple Wurlitzer orchestrions (coin pianos and orchestrions) (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Restored and playable in Sanfilippo Museum.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Resotone Grand orchestrion – the only known example (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Restored and exhibited.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Seeburg Model J orchestrion (capitol-building art glass) (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Part of Sanfilippo collection.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Barrington, Illinois", "country": "USA", "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)", "latitude": 42.1384, "longitude": -88.1055, "description": "Seeburg Model H orchestrions (from San Francisco’s Cliff House collection) (www.sanfilippofoundation.org).", "history": "Restored and on display.", "notes": "" }, { "city": "Gabrovo", "country": "Bulgaria", "venue": "Regional Historical Museum – Gabrovo", "latitude": 42.874, "longitude": 25.3312, "description": "Large cabinet orchestrion (late 19th c., built in Prague) with strings, bellows and keyboards; later electrified in 1906 (bnr.bg).", "history": "Purchased by industrialist Ivan Khadzhiberov and delivered from Prague (via Danube) after 1878 (bnr.bg); electrified in 1906; Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand famously heard it in 1908 (bnr.bg).", "notes": "The only known orchestrion in Bulgaria; currently non-functional and awaiting restoration (bnr.bg)." }, { "city": "Belgrade", "country": "Serbia", "venue": "Museum of Science and Technology (Politehnicki Muzej)", "latitude": 44.818, "longitude": 20.456, "description": "Historic American-style orchestrion (early 20th c.) now in the Science and Technology Museum collection (bnr.bg).", "history": "Reportedly the only other orchestrion surviving in the region apart from Gabrovo (bnr.bg).", "notes": "Mentioned by Bulgarian media as the sole other Balkan orchestrion (bnr.bg)." } ]