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Up here on the fourth floor are unexpected and quite marvelous musical extravaganzas. They’ve got all kinds of ‘automated mechanical instruments’ along the lines of a player piano but this thing will make you gasp.

It’s called an Orchestian which are amazing machines made in Germany and Belgium during the early 1900s…’through their electro-pneumatic systems and paper roll arrangements, replicate entire orchestras.’

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