In the last digest, Jim Canavan asked :
> I'm going to be in Rome & Florence, Italy for the last two weeks in May

Here are two sites I mention in my Web site Musica mecanica :

  Museo di Strumenti Musicali Meccanici,
  48020 Savio (Ravenna),
  S. S. Adriatica 16, km 163 (Borna Km 163 on the N16).
  Direttore : Famiglia Marini,   Tel. + 39 (0)544/560547
  -- A very large collection (several hundred instruments).

  Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali,
  Pza S. Croce in Gerusalemme, 9-a, 00185-Roma.
  Direttore : Dr Antonio Latanza,  Tel. : +39 6 701 47 96.
  -- Beautiful collection of about 3,000 musical instruments, with
  many rooms devoted to mechanical music.  Dr Latanza is a specialist
  of pneumatic pianos.

Have a nice trip to Italy !

Philippe Rouille¶
(Paris, France)¶
rouille@cnam.fr¶
http://www.cnam.fr/museum/musica_mecanica/