WMBC-TV, an independent TV station in Newton, New Jersey, serving
the New York City and New Jersey area, broadcast a news segment
last weekend about the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection displayed at
the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVOhBWUkqc
Conservator Jere Ryder says about the holdings, "The mechanical
music instruments and automata in this collection really represent
the very first examples of 'on-demand' music."
Robbie Rhodes, MMDigest
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