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Mills Novelty Co. courtesy Don Teach
These machines have the highest survival rate of any type of player piano. They play a real violin and piano from a perforated paper roll much like a regular player piano roll. The Mills machines are all electrically operated via solenoids and motors. Most of these machines required a coin to start the music, but some models were also made for homes. Don Teach
15 May 2000 |
Here
are some views of the famous Mills Violano-Virtuoso self-playing violin
machine. These instruments are as interesting today as they were
when they were new, and some collectors estimate that several thousand
still exist.
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