Disney World Collection
By Stephen Kent Goodman
Congratulations to Martin Roenigk in the acquisition of the Disney Collection. This was originally purchased by Disney in the 1950's out of the old A. C. Raney hoard in Whittier CA. For many years they were on display at California's Disneyland, where they were played to death by the merciless public, and often received the "Disney Touch" such as replacing the goddess heads with bear heads on a very rare Peerless cabinet flute piano, to better fit into the arcade at the Bear Country attraction.
I have always felt that either a private collection or a museum is the place for rare, original instruments, leaving build-ups and nickelodeon conversions for the public places. That way, the music and the mechanism is shared with the general public, but an original machine is spared the beating it normally receives from hard commercial service.
Cheers,
S. K. Goodman
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