> Maybe this means that audiences at mechanical music concerts will
> prefer instruments with exciting visual effects!

I've had many more customers who were mesmerized by an orchestral
box with drum, bells, bug strikers, woodblock, than I have by
a lovely fat cylinder overture box!  People like to see something
'happening' -- the more movement, the better.

To take this one step sideways, at a show I did I had 21 different
cylinder and disc boxes.  I had only _one_ that was coin operated
but people _loved_ putting in a nickel and 'making something happen',
more than they did just listening.

Nancy Fratti - Nancy Fratti Music Boxes
Canastota, New York, USA
http://www.nancyfrattimusicboxes.com/