"Rag Time Chimes" played by Wurlitzer Mandolin-Quartette

[@CrampedGrampy]

Just absolutely dandy! Thankee for this lovely player and melody.

[@thomashogan16]

Neat little compact player that just keeps playing away! Great restoration too. Thanks!

[@Mr05241948]

this just makes my happy listening to it

[@thomashogan16]

Supposedly the composer awoke hearing the mission bells of Mission San Juan Capistrano and wrote this down in the orange- blossom scented air.

[@adrianvanheems8041]

Fascinating. We have nothing like this left in the UK.Please keep these wonderful machines working as long as possible..

[@OttoVonChesterfield234]

yea you do there's quite a few collections in the uk

[@markmcdaniel5190]

Wonderful, just wonderful!

[@ramonasidneybaker]

The piano section of this instrument is wonderful!

[@mehrschwein7378]

Ramona Baker no really. you can hear how old the upper part is. it maybe was wonderful in the past, but its not anymore. I really would like to hear how these things where, when they had a nice piano section.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

mehr schwein I am confused. This instrument is fully restored. What do you hear wrong with the mandolin action?

[@thomashogan16]

The "upper part" is supposed to sound like a mandolin, not a piano. It's perfectly regulated, and tuned to sound like a duet. Charming.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@thomashogan16 It's somewhere in between a Mandolin & a Piano. The Mandolin action is really just a modified Piano Action.

[@johnnyjames7139]

I love these instruments. Walter Knott had quite a few in Ghost Town in the 1950's. Sadly that is all gone.

[@thomashogan16]

Yeah, when he died his heirs chopped all of them up to play for more than a dime, and then they were left to rot. I played many of them as a kid. So sad. They were my education into ragtime.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Thomas Hogan Hi, I too remember the coin pianos at Knott's thru about 2002 or whenever they were mostly put in storage. I didn't know they had a Mandolin Quartette, although Disneyland did at one time. To my knowledge, most of the Knott's instruments were sold off in two auctions: one in 1997 and the other in 2017. I attended the 2017 auction and bid on a lot of two pianos and another lot of about half the rolls. Both roll lots (representing several hundred coin piano and orchestrion rolls, with a few home-instrument rolls sprinkled in) sold to a private collector for an incredible sum of money, appropriate since there are probably at least a few one-of-a-kind rolls in there, i.e. the last known copy. About half of the 20 pianos at the 2017 auction sold to a local California collector, and four others to a different California individual who (after restoration work) will be putting them on display at a local car museum that is in progress. The remaining pianos, Regina disc-changing music box and Tangley spare calliope were sold to individuals unknown to me. Hopefully all are in good hands now.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I am not at all sure what was sold prior to 2017 except for the following instruments: - Engelhardt Banjorchestra orchestrion, one of two known originals: traded in the 1980s to a private collector for an Empress Electric coin piano. Is now totally restored. - Link 2-E cabinet coin piano converted to "A" rolls using Seeburg L guts with non original xylophone. Sold in 1997, is owned by a private collector who is a good restorer, may be put back to original. - Nelson-Wiggen 3 keyboard coin piano, sold at 1997 sale, now owned by California collector and is his pride and joy. - Wurlitzer 29-C Mandolin PianOrchestra orchestrion. This was the giant one in the barn and later Ghost Town Museum thru about 1985. Now totally restored out of state in a private collection.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Auctioned at the 2017 sale were: - 6 Seeburg L cabinet pianos, split into two lots of 2 each, with the remaining two L's each bundled with a Western Electric Mascot model C piano. I recall that most were of the most common two-door style made from 1921 to 1925. One might have been a late one in the 4 door style made 1925 to 1928, but not sure. There was also one very early 3-door L, the transitional model from the P-G-A and made only in 1921. - 2 Western Electric model C Mascot cabinet pianos, mentioned above. One still had the original art glass. - 4 Automatic Musical Instrument Co. "National" roll-changing pianos, sold as a lot. - Seeburg K cabinet piano with violin pipes. This is an early K probably from around 1913-1914 and was in the Calico Saloon for years. -Western Electric 'Derby' cabinet piano with horse race diorama - Empress Electric keyboard coin piano (original model unknown to me) with non-original drums etc under the keyboard. - Cremona G keyboard coin piano with flute pipes. - Coinola C-2 orchestrion in Coinola X case, missing bass drum, with Seeburg tambourine added. The most 'famous' of the remaining pianos in the collection. Wurlitzer flat-front late model Pianino cabinet piano. Was in the Judge Roy Bean Saloon for years. - a lot of two Chicago Electric model K cabinet pianos, one with the original art glass, but a cracked piano plate and untunable until a new plate is fitted; the other without the glass but in decent shape. This was the piano lot on which I bid (and lost). - Tangley CA-43 air calliope. This was the spare/backup calliope from the Bird Cage Theatre, but wasn't used in MANY years. -Regina 27" disc size upright disc-changing musical box.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

As of late 2018, Knott's are known to still own the following self playing musical instruments (mostly not playing): - National roll-changing coin piano (one left), on display in Ghost Town Museum - Mills single Violano-Virtuoso, on display in Ghost Town Museum - Cocchi, Bacigalupo and Graffigna small street organ, on display in Ghost Town Museum - Regina 27" disc (?) single-disc upright musical box, on display in Judge Roy Bean Saloon - Philipps cylinder orchestrion in the lobby of the Bird Cage Theatre - Wurlitzer 157 band organ on display in loft of carousel building, facing out to Fiesta Village - Wurlitzer 153 band organ, disassembled in storage on premises. - H. C. Bay upright player piano, used as a nonfunctional prop in a newer Ghost Town shooting gallery - National model A air calliope, no self player, in parade wagon next to Bird Cage Theatre and still hand played during the holidays. - Porter tabletop disc musical box, brought out during the holidays to go in a clothing store and play continually. in good playing order. - Baker-Troll orchestral cylinder musical box, on display only in Ghost Town museum.

[@LukesJohnDeereGarage]

Sounds good. Nice restoration!

[@violinmke]

Amazing. Thanks

[@maironef]

このマシンの演奏で古賀メロディをリクエストしたくなる音色です。

[@elizabethsnyder-baldonado5990]

🤩🤩🤩. 🎹🎹🎹. 🥰🥰🥰!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

The Mandolin action is really just Hammers hitting the strings, & the ratchet wheel causes the hammers to repeatedly move back & fourth producing a tremolo.

[@annecohen8927]

@Rowan Damien You’re right. I’m not interested in knowing about your private other life. When the only criticism I can make is when after you listen to the first portion of this Ragtime Chime it then launches into something I couldn’t even recognize so when I listen to the original, it sounded more pleasant than this version.

[@boombox4037]

When a saloon can’t find an available pianist 😂

[@cochrane04]

Wow

[@Jacob-jq2ot]

🎵🎶

[@PiotrBarcz]

The mandoli notes have a real odd sound but the songs pretty cool!

[@PiotrBarcz]

The mandolin section is one heck of a weird part of the instrument.

[@synapticaxon9303]

And they call us autists... Amazing.

[@dennissalamante6785]

Mandolin Nickelodeon

[@57thorns]

Back then, music could be out of tune if these machines were not correctly served. Today we instead have auto-tune for more or less the same jarring listening experience. Not that I say _this_ is out of tune, but, well, the joke had to be made and I suspect a lot of these did get out of tune quite badly when they stood in the corner of a badly heated noisy saloon/bar.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

You're right, in that many public places did not always have the money to have the instruments properly maintained, or else were in out-of-the-way places where servicemen were scarce; or else the owners DID have the money and access to technicians for maintenance, but were not musical enough to understand that they need upkeep from time to time (at least a couple/few times per year for tuning and maintenance) to keep sounding good and not start sounding bad. Many instruments kept in tip-top shape by wealthy private collectors and caring museums play better today, more often, than they probably did 'on location' when new. But then again, there are also collectors, museums etc who either neglect instruments and let them get into bad shape or else don't keep them up / don't play them at all, with the result that they are only display pieces. I am also guilty of this, but only due to me being in the process of learning to make more money, and not having enough room to properly house / display more than a couple instruments at the moment. Hopefully I can change this.

[@iveco555]

Androino project ......

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