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Hello.  About 25 years ago, at Seattle Center, there was a ring of
curio shops and exhibits.  One of them contained antique mechanical
music players.  They are no longer at Seattle Center, and I have never
seen or heard of them any other place.

These did not play recordings.  Rather, each was fitted with a glass
box that contained actual instruments (violins, banjos, truncated
piano keyboards, many percussion instruments), played by mechanical
"fingers."

I found your site by searching "mechanical" "music" and "violins."
I see the word "orchestrion" on the page, and this seems vaguely
familiar.  Is the word for the wonderful things I saw in my youth?

I'd appreciate any information you can give me.

Sincerely,

Scott Jamieson