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The Self-contained "Hootenanny" Orchestrion
By Dave Geissinger

Is this "The Ultimate?"  Note the quantity of stored music, and the
price!

  http://www.hammacher.com/Product/12485 
  The Self-Contained Hootenanny

  This is the autonomous mechanical band that uses 17 instruments
  built into its cabinet to generate a verifiable shin-dig.  Housed
  within a handcrafted oak cabinet, the machines instruments are
  played by a system of precisely calibrated pneumatics that strum
  and pluck strings while thumping and tapping drums.

Dave Geissinger

(Message sent Thu 11 Sep 2014, 01:00:40 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject: Hootenanny, Orchestrion, Self-contained

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