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Mechanical Music in the Movies
By Lee Rothrock

Many thanks to those who provided enlightening details about Trumpeter
Clocks in a previous post; now for something a bit more challenging.

In "Child of Manhattan", https://youtu.be/GYsEkQab37Y?t=1870
Attachment thumbnail at around time 31:10, the suave gentleman slyly switches his piano into 'play' to make the young lady susceptible to his wooing, and it works. I'd like to know where to find a girl like that nowadays! But anyway, the part where the piano is in view is very slight. The only piano I ever saw that might have looked like the one in the film was a Gulbransen grand, but there might be enough detail there for someone who has looked at lots of pianos to detect an identifying feature. What say you? Lee Rothrock Springfield, Oregon

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