Thank you, Tim Trager, for sharing this background info about the
Boveys, Virginia City and Nevada City, and the mechanical music
collection.  I remember visiting both these historic towns, as a kid,
in the 1960s.  It was a wonderful experience to see and hear all those
great music machines.

The Nevada City Music Hall was filled with all kinds of mechanical
organs, lined against the walls, including a roll-operated Wurlitzer
theatre pipe organ (and with a few pipes patched with duct tape).
It also housed one of the three surviving Wurlitzer style 180 organs.
The 89-key Gavioli was quite impressive.  As a child, it seemed so
huge!  I'm curious as to which instruments are still on display.

The Bale of Hay Saloon had an equally impressive assortment of
nickelodeons and orchestrions.  I remember seeing two Seeburg J
orchestrions, on either side of the front door.  One had the Capitol
Dome art glass, and was wired with a set of Deagan Unafon bells.
The other had the art glass removed.  The question is, which Seeburg J
is up for auction?

 [ Andrew Barrett reported in 000724 MMD that it's a J with
 [ Capitol Dome glass.  -- Robbie

There was an LP made of the Virginia City/Nevada City instruments,
in the 1960s, on the Century Records label.  It was re-released in the
1980s, under a different label.  I have a copy of both.  The Seeburg J
with Unafon bells is featured, playing an unknown rag (solo piano with
bells).

Sharon Marie