I have been a friend of Pip Corin for many years and was one of the
last visitors to his collection.  Because I have known the collection
since the 1970s, I have written a fully illustrated article on the
history of the collection and the various instruments that passed
through their hands.  This includes photographs and, when possible,
tells where the items are now, not just fairground organs and large
dance organs, but orchestrions and many other wonderful mechanical
musical instruments.

The comprehensive article will be published in the magazine of the
Fairground Organ Preservation Society in UK, the "Key Frame."  Quite a
few of the instruments are now scattered all over the world, from major
collections in the USA to private collections in Europe, and even the
Dutch National Museum in Utrecht.

I am sure it will surprise collectors worldwide, as it did me, what
could be found down a small narrow Cornish lane in the middle of
nowhere.  The Corin Collection truly was once a collection of
Magnificent Musical Machines.  Pip and his family, as Kevin said, plan
to open the building as a wedding venue, and they will be keeping the
Wurlitzer theatre organ.  Pip also still does work on player pianos,
especially on Ampico instruments.  Cornwall at one time had another
museum near Goldsithney, the West Cornwall Musical Museum, operated by
Douglas Berryman.

Jonathan  Holmes
Penzance, UK