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Mechanical Music in the Movies
By Lee Rothrock

Many thanks to those who provided enlightening details about Trumpeter
Clocks in a previous post; now for something a bit more challenging.

In "Child of Manhattan", https://youtu.be/GYsEkQab37Y?t=1870  at
around time 31:10, the suave gentleman slyly switches his piano into
'play' to make the young lady susceptible to his wooing, and it works.
I'd like to know where to find a girl like that nowadays!

But anyway, the part where the piano is in view is very slight.  The
only piano I ever saw that might have looked like the one in the film
was a Gulbransen grand, but there might be enough detail there for
someone who has looked at lots of pianos to detect an identifying
feature.  What say you?

Lee Rothrock
Springfield, Oregon 


(Message sent Fri 17 Jul 2020, 04:37:31 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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