Hi All.  Brian Chesters asked about Adelina Patti's Orchestrion.  I can
shed some light on the topic and I quote from David Bowers book "Put
Another Nickel In" published in 1966 of which I was reading about this
orchestrion only the other day.  Quoting from Bowers:

  'The magnificent Orchestrion installed in the castle of Adelina
  Patti-Nicolini must have been one of Welte's most proud accomplish-
  ments for it was featured in many Welte advertisements.

  'During a visit to England in 1963 we obtained a "lead" on the Patti
  orchestrion.  A correspondent stated that it had been moved from
  Craig-y-nos Castle shortly before 1920 and had been relocated at a
  summer camp near Douglas on the Isle of Man.  Our hopes were high as
  we envisioned finding the orchestrion, shipping it to America and
  then setting it up to play once again!

  'Finally we learned from the piano tuner who serviced the summer camp
  that (in the tuner's words) " I have tuned the pianos at the holiday
  camp for over thirty years and am sorry to say that the orchestrion
  in question is no longer in existence.  It met with a series of
  accidents.  First it was flooded.  Then it caught fire because of the
  lighting system.  The cost of repairing it was too much.  After many
  meeting the directors of the camp had it broken up.  The whole
  orchestrion was burned in the boiler house furnace shortly after
  World War 2."'

Hope this information helps you.

Peter Coggins