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What's an Orchestrion?
By Michael Woolf

I seem to recall discussion on this point some years ago.  There was an
attempt to distinguish orchestrions from nickelodeons, and Dave Bowers
(I think) came up with the definition that an orchestrion has at least
five instruments.

Holiday greetings to all

Michael Woolf
New Zealand

(Message sent Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:58:03 +1300 , from time zone +1300.)

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