Ed Gaida will be pleased to hear that the orchestrion he saw at the London

shop of Imhof is alive and well, still living in London.  It was offered

on permanent loan to the British Piano Museum, run by the great Frank

Holland.  When they wanted it returned, a fund was set up for its purchase,

and it is still owned by the Piano Museum, now renamed the Musical Museum,

which has its own purpose-built building just along the road from Frank's

old church in Kew.



One correction: that orchestrion was not barrel-operated.  Either Ed has

forgotten exactly what he saw all those years ago, or there were two

orchestrions at Imhof's.



Nicholas Simons