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Next Tuesday, November 11, sees mechanical music featuring in the
Collectors Sale at Dreweatt's Auction Room in Apsley Road, Bristol
BS8 2SE, UK.  A Seeburg nickelodeon, a Hicks-type barrel piano,
a Lecoultre snuffbox and an organette or two are there, not to mention
some optical devices such as a (very incomplete) musical praxinoscope
and a zoetrope.  The main feature of the sale is the phonograph and
gramophone collection of the late Ron Armstrong.  Over 100 lots
include phonographs (with an Edison Class M among many others),
cylinders, gramophones (including a coin-operated 'Trade Mark' model)
and spare parts.

An illustrated catalogue is available on line now at http://www.dnfa.com/ 
I catalogued most of the Mechanical Music items in the sale, so will
endeavour to answer any technical enquiries about the lots.

Christopher Proudfoot
cproudfoot@firenet.uk.net.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]