Mechanical Music Sale

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room Diss, Norfolk

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A 48 note Pasquale/Todd hand-wound barrel piano. Originally an automatic piano, it was owned as such by the East Anglian Automatic Piano Co. It wa...

A circa 1890-1910 Pasquale / Wintle 48 note hand-wound automatic barrel piano. Restored by A. O. Wintle and his East Anglian Automatic Piano Compa...

A Lafleur and Son half-size hand-wound barrel piano. black lacquered wooden case with mirrored panel, turned supports. One barrel present, 30 note...

A Pasquale 48 note hand-wound barrel piano, Tomasso pinned. Walnut cased with incised scrolled foliate detail and mirror panel. The barrel was rem...

A 48 Note Rissone/Todd hand-wound barrel piano, modified from automatic. Purchased by Canon A. O. Wintle and the East Anglian Automatic Piano Comp...

A Pasquale/Wintle 48 note automatic barrel piano, restored by A. O. Wintle and his East Anglian Automatic Piano Co. In a typical black case with i...

A 54 note Chiappa/Wintle automatic barrel piano. Coin-operated and probably originally built for, and owned by, Keith Prowse. This piano was bough...

A 48 note Robino Tremolo hand-wound barrel piano. Repaired by Colin Williams.The wooden case raised on two turned spindle front supports, featurin...

A cylinder musical box and table, figured walnut with crossbanding, ebonised turned supports to castors, ormolu mounts. Thought to have been made ...

A late Victorian Polyphon disc musical box, walnut and beech cabinet, originally purchased from Harrods of London. Complete with nineteen reproduc...

Two barrel piano automatic clockwork motors / mechanisms. These would have been removed from pianos when they were converted from automatic to man...

Three barrel piano automatic clockwork motors / mechanisms. These would have been removed from pianos when they were converted from automatic to m...

An Edison 'Fireside' two-speed phonograph together with a quantity of cylinders. Red metal horn, with domed oak cover. Thought to have been purcha...

A quantity of books including 'Barrel Organ' by Ord-Hume, 'Restoring Musical Boxes & Musical Clocks' by Arthur WJG Ord-Hume, and 'Encyclopedia of ...

An Ariel paper roll organette, oak cased with foliate incised detail, ebonised plinth. This was purchased from an auction in Saffron Walden. Inclu...

An Enrique Alminana, Campo Segrado 30, Barcelona quarter size (1/4) miniature barrel piano within a black lacquered case with incised detail. A co...

An Ariston disc organette, ebonised case with incised detail, together with 23 wax card discs.Colin Williams Collection DIMENSIONS:Height 22cmDept...

A Chiapia 26 note street barrel organ, rosewood veneer case a/f. Originally played with a strap and a stick to take the weight, this organ has 8 j...

A pinning frame made by Colin Williams to hold barrels during the pinning process, a broad copy of a pinning frame Colin and Milly had seen in a b...

A 40 note Rossi & Spinelli hand-wound barrel piano, converted from automatic to manual operation and re-marked with new tunes and re-pinned by Col...

A Tomasso 44 note hand-wound barrel piano, re-pinned by Angelo Tomasso at his premises in London. With the original Tomasso barrel.An attractive m...

A circa 1900-1910 48-note Prowse/Tomasso (Donovan) hand-wound barrel piano. Thought to have been made by Chiappa, this originally clockwork motor-...

A Spanish 55 note hand-wound barrel piano with bells in CGAE, together with cart.In an elaborate case with the original paintwork, featuring a pic...

An early 20th Century Robino 44 note barrel piano, constructed by Simon Robino in Manchester and re-pinned by Milly and Colin Williams. In a polis...

A circa 1900-1910 48 note hand wound barrel piano with cart and storage box, restored by Colin Williams. The simple wooden case with three inlaid ...

A circa 1920’s Spanish E. Salva Mane miniature barrel piano, playing six tunes on one barrel. Pale leather covered case with gilt wood carved deta...

A circa 1900-1910 American Celestina tabletop organette, walnut cased with two rolls of music, who used plinth. 34cm deep x 40cm wide x 37cm high

A circa 1890 American 22 note tabletop roller organ with four rolls, pine cased with bromides plinth. 44cm wide x 39cm deep x 32cm high

A tabletop Polyphon, 15.5” disc type, walnut case with incised lyre and foliate design, the lid opening to reveal original paper label, together w...

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