In answer to Dave Krall, the Sanfilippo orchestrion was purchased from
the late Graham Whitehead of Ashorne Hall, Warwickshire, England, who
had bought it from the residence of the late Lord Hastings at his country
house in Norfolk, of which I cannot remember the name. Graham and his
restorer, Paul Camps, did a full restoration of this organ, which was
still working from its original barrels. I think it had somewhere around
98 keys.
Nicholas Simons
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