The first thing you notice at Nate Otto’s Anoka house is the hearse in the driveway, a 1967 Olds 98 with tattered curtains and a rusted body. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ built for a ...
I cover finance, the law, and how the two interact. Consider the player piano. When it arrived on the scene in the late 19th century, music publishers were horrified by this new machine that allowed ...
Better quality player pianos, such as this 1913 model owned by Carmen Farmer of Picayune, Miss., are now considered collectibles. THE PIECE: A vintage player piano, J.P. Seeburg Co., from 1913 THE ...
“When I was 16, I decided I wanted to live in the 19th century.” – Laurence “Larry” Broadmoore. Trouble was it was 1968 – well into the 20th century – but Larry Broadmoore didn’t care. At heart he was ...
The Battlefield Boulevard shop where Ted DeWitt long coaxed music out of intricate machinery is gone. But DeWitt’s player piano repair business continues, operating out of his Chesapeake apartment and ...
A dozen deconstructed pianos crowd Ray Ternstrom’s workshop, their parts laid out like bones at an archeological dig. Here, the even teeth of unmoored keys. There, a riblike row of hammers awaiting ...
STANFORD — Stanford University wants to unlock the secrets of the player piano, which brought recorded music into living rooms long before there were cassettes, compact discs or iPods. Stanford ...
SELLINO player pianos to Americans in 1912 was not a difficult task. There was a place for everyone in this brave new world, where the player offered an answer to some of America’s most persistent ...
Rarely does a century-old musical instrument drive policy in Washington, but that's exactly what's happening in the music community at this moment. By Michael Beckerman Rarely does a century-old ...
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