More ornate than an early Arcadian, it was introduced in 1915 after Engelhardt acquired the Seybold piano factory in Elgin, Illinois, and just before Seybold’s bankruptcy. Peerless Arcadian Orchestrion, late style, made circa 1916 and restored in 1993. This project was a cooperative effort by several shops: we refinished the case, restored the piano, and replicated missing parts of the player mechanism George Carlson fabricated new parts for the spoolbox to replace the cracked pot metal parts Dana Johnson supplied raw castings C&G Machine in Colorado Springs machined them and Jerry Biasella completed the original Peerless stack, drum mechanisms, and other parts. Peerless Arcadian Orchestrion in conventional early style case, made circa 1913-1914. It was originally used in Aguilar, Colorado, a state that had very strong distributors for Peerless and Wurlitzer circa 1905 through 1915, and Mills into the 1920s. Johnsville NY with an Engelhardt piano, 32 violin pipes, bass drum, tympani, cymbal, snare drum, two castanets, and triangle. This is the oldest Arcadian orchestrion known to exist, made in St. Peerless Arcadian Orchestrion, very early style made in 1913 and restored in 2008. We restored it for the Yaffe Collection in 2004. This orchestrion was displayed for many years at Horn’s Cars of Yesterday and later Bellm’s Cars of Yesterday in Sarasota, Florida. Nelson-Wiggen Style 6 Orchestrion, serial number 108,850, made in 1926. The early style “Byzantine” case has carved falcons perched on the columns, and gryphons guarding the keyboard. The largest orchestrion in the Cremona line, this is an early example with Deagan Una-Fon bells instead of the more common xylophone, along with the usual pipes and drums. (Place de la Musique Collection.)Ĭremona Style J Orchestrion, restored in 1987. It was the immediate predecessor of the more familiar Style G, which replaced it after about a year. The case design is similar to the shorter Cremona Style A-Art, but with taller sides and front to make room for the pipes and five art glass panels. We restored this one 1993.Ĭremona Style F Coin Piano, Marquette Piano Company’s first coin piano with pipes, made in 1912. Rolls were made by Operators and Clark, providing a wide variety of music played by some of the finest roll arrangers of the era. The X plays style “O” rolls, which have a large 78-note playing range on the piano and a solo device that turns the highest 24 piano playing notes off when the xylophone plays. Introduced in 1914, it became the best-selling orchestrion made by the Operators Piano Company over a period of about 15 years. One walkthrough even mentions a Feathers card and a Keys card, but no such cards exist.Coinola Style X Orchestrion. Other walkthroughs give Czech names to the cards, but do not present a complete list. It is useful for getting all three gifts at the end of the game. They are not named, so the images themselves are handy but I can't place them here (thus the link). What I found most useful is the complete set of images for all 123 cards. Finally, I've found a walkthrough that contains accurate and precise information on all 123 cards: Ĭlick on the link and scroll down to see the walkthrough.
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