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Walt Disney World Instruments
By Rick Inzero

Well, they have at least one item that I noticed.  I was there circa
July, 1995.  In the Magic Kingdom, in the train station.  On the second
floor is a very tall (over 7') natural-wood finish MM item.  At the time,
I didn't know about this list and had never heard of an orchestrion, but
I suppose that is what you'd call what I saw.  It was not a band organ,
and much too big to be considered a nickelodeon.

There isn't much inside the station, and it's kind of dark in there
(compared to the sunny outside).  I didn't take a photo because 1) the
train was coming and 2) it was fairly dark, and in order to get the
entire mechanism in one frame, I had to get too far back for the point &
shoot's wimpy flash to be effective.  I'd sure like to see a photo of it
(or go back! :-) ), so I could identify it.  It has a lot of clear glass
in front so you can see all the stuff inside; I seem to remember bells or
a xylophone among other things.  It was coin operated, and nobody else
was using it -- it seemed mostly ignored by the general public; I however
was quite excited when I saw it.

I did play it.  It worked wonderfully, and played a long time for a
quarter.  Most people just zoom through the interior of the station to
get to the loading platform outside and wait for a train.  I only spent a
couple days there, and only in the Magic Kingdom, so don't know if any
other parts of the park or restaurants there may have other MM items.

Rick Inzero


(Message sent Fri 25 Apr 1997, 18:19:29 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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