orchestrions.json

[
  {
    "city": "London (Brentford)",
    "country": "UK",
    "venue": "The Musical Museum (Brentford)",
    "latitude": 51.4887174,
    "longitude": -0.3138261,
    "description": "Imhof & Mukle pipe-organ orchestrion (1899) with multiple registers and percussion (drums, tambourine, triangle) ([www.soundsurvey.org.uk](https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index_php/musical-museum/orchestrion/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%E2%80%99s%20really%20a%20pipe%20organ,%E2%80%9D)).",
    "history": "Built in London c.1899 by Imhof & Mukle; remained in their Oxford Street showroom until company collapse in the 1970s, when it was acquired by the Brentford Musical Museum ([www.soundsurvey.org.uk](https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index_php/musical-museum/orchestrion/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThey%20were%20not%20good%20at,a%20passing%20fad%20and%20how)).",
    "notes": "The museum advertises that the soprano Adelina Patti used a similar Imhof orchestrion at her home in Wales ([www.soundsurvey.org.uk](https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index_php/musical-museum/orchestrion/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20have%20a%20lovely%20advert,%E2%80%9D))."
  },
  {
    "city": "Rum (Isle of Rùm)",
    "country": "UK (Scotland)",
    "venue": "Kinloch Castle (Maritime Museum)",
    "latitude": 57.0136443,
    "longitude": -6.2819933,
    "description": "Swiss Imhof & Mukle concert orchestrion (c.1900) with 108 tracker channels (88 notes + percussion) and 264 organ pipes, designed to mimic a full orchestra ([kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk](https://kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk/saving-the-orchestrion/#:~:text=,creating%20a%20full%2C%20rich%20sound)).",
    "history": "Originally commissioned by Queen Victoria for Balmoral (never delivered); purchased in the early 20th century by Sir George Bullough for Kinloch Castle ([kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk](https://kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk/saving-the-orchestrion/#:~:text=The%20orchestrion%20was%20originally%20commissioned,the%20extravagant%20leisure%20of%20the)).",
    "notes": "One of only three of its model ever built, it is nicknamed 'Queen Victoria’s Orchestrion' ([kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk](https://kinlochcastlefriendsassociation.co.uk/saving-the-orchestrion/#:~:text=The%20Imhof%20%26%20Mukle%20Orchestrion,capable%20of%20being%20played%20today))."
  },
  {
    "city": "Utrecht",
    "country": "Netherlands",
    "venue": "Museum Speelklok",
    "latitude": 52.0877,
    "longitude": 5.1182,
    "description": "Cylinder orchestrion by S. Heizmann (c.1890) with embedded trumpets and percussion, coin-operated for dance halls ([www.museumspeelklok.nl](https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/en/orchestrions/#:~:text=wooden%20cylinders,a%20xylophone%20and%2For%20metallophone%20are)).",
    "history": "Built by Sigmund Heizmann (Vöhrenbach, Baden); acquired by Museum Speelklok.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Utrecht",
    "country": "Netherlands",
    "venue": "Museum Speelklok",
    "latitude": 52.0877,
    "longitude": 5.1182,
    "description": "Lochmann Original Concertino disc orchestrion (c.1910) featuring a toothed comb mechanism, strings section, tubular bells, two drums and a cymbal ([www.museumspeelklok.nl](https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/en/orchestrions/#:~:text=Disc%20orchestrions)).",
    "history": "Built by Friedrich Lochmann (Germany); part of Speelklok’s disc-orchestrion collection.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Utrecht",
    "country": "Netherlands",
    "venue": "Museum Speelklok",
    "latitude": 52.0877,
    "longitude": 5.1182,
    "description": "Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina (c.1925) pianola-based orchestrion topped with a dome housing three violins (played by a single bow) ([www.museumspeelklok.nl](https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/en/orchestrions/#:~:text=Phonoliszt%20Violina%20)).",
    "history": "Made by M. Hupfeld (Germany) in mid-1920s; acquired by Speelklok.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Utrecht",
    "country": "Netherlands",
    "venue": "Museum Speelklok",
    "latitude": 52.0877,
    "longitude": 5.1182,
    "description": "Philipps Paganini orchestrion (1921), including organ, piano, harmonium, metallophone and extensive percussion with a 10-roll revolver system ([www.museumspeelklok.nl](https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/en/orchestrions/#:~:text=Another%20instrument%20is%20the%20Philipps,to%20be%20moved%20into%20position)).",
    "history": "Built by Gebr. Philipps (Germany) around 1920; part of original Speelklok collection.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Berlin",
    "country": "Germany",
    "venue": "Stadtmuseum Berlin (Märkisches Museum)",
    "latitude": 52.538,
    "longitude": 13.411,
    "description": "“Fratihymnia” orchestrion (c.1900) by Cocchi, Bacigalupo & Graffigna (Berlin), a cabinet instrument mimicking a chamber orchestra ([www.berlin.de](https://www.berlin.de/tickets/vermischtes/alt-schoen-laut/2025-06-15-n-a-40db3f2d-1fda-4b55-a0da-c78242ba750f/#:~:text=Das%20Orchestrion%20%C2%BBFratihymnia%C2%AB%2C%20gebaut%20um,Musikinstrumente%20in%20MUSICA%20DI%20STRADA)).",
    "history": "Played in a Schönhauser Allee restaurant from 1919–1954 ([www.stadtmuseum.de](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/pianola-orchestrion-gramophone-and-more#:~:text=called%20crank%20organs,the%20end%20of%20a%20show)); now in Stadtmuseum collection.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Coinola Style O orchestrion (USA, early 1900s) – a large coin-operated orchestrion with art-glass facade ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=glass,art%20glass%2C%20and%20Seeburg%20H)).",
    "history": "Restored and on display in Sanfilippo’s American Orchestrion Room.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Peerless Wisteria orchestrion (American, wisteria glass front panel) ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=glass,art%20glass%2C%20and%20Seeburg%20H)).",
    "history": "Restored and displayed alongside other Peerless models at Sanfilippo.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Peerless Arcadian orchestrion, ornately carved with hanging lamps ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=glass,art%20glass%2C%20and%20Seeburg%20H)).",
    "history": "Restored and displayed at Sanfilippo.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Peerless Elite orchestrion (with flute pipes) ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=glass,art%20glass%2C%20and%20Seeburg%20H)).",
    "history": "Restored and on display.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Cremona Model J (Byzantine-case) orchestrion ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=Wisteria%2C%20a%20Peerless%20Arcadian%20with,art%20glass%2C%20and%20Seeburg%20H)).",
    "history": "On display in restored condition.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Seeburg Model G orchestrion (from San Francisco’s Valente Nickelodeons) ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=Wisteria%2C%20a%20Peerless%20Arcadian%20with,art%20glass%2C%20and%20Seeburg%20H)).",
    "history": "Fully restored in Sanfilippo collection.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Multiple Wurlitzer orchestrions (coin pianos and orchestrions) ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=Elite%20with%20flute%20pipes%2C%20a,art%20glass%2C%20and%20Seeburg%20H)).",
    "history": "Restored and playable in Sanfilippo Museum.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Resotone Grand orchestrion – the only known example ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=Valente%27s%20House%20of%20Nickelodeons%2C%20several,House%20collection%20of%20the%201950s)).",
    "history": "Restored and exhibited.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Seeburg Model J orchestrion (capitol-building art glass) ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=Valente%27s%20House%20of%20Nickelodeons%2C%20several,House%20collection%20of%20the%201950s)).",
    "history": "Part of Sanfilippo collection.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Barrington, Illinois",
    "country": "USA",
    "venue": "The Sanfilippo Foundation (American Orchestrion Room)",
    "latitude": 42.1384,
    "longitude": -88.1055,
    "description": "Seeburg Model H orchestrions (from San Francisco’s Cliff House collection) ([www.sanfilippofoundation.org](https://www.sanfilippofoundation.org/orchestrian-room.html#:~:text=Valente%27s%20House%20of%20Nickelodeons%2C%20several,House%20collection%20of%20the%201950s)).",
    "history": "Restored and on display.",
    "notes": ""
  },
  {
    "city": "Gabrovo",
    "country": "Bulgaria",
    "venue": "Regional Historical Museum – Gabrovo",
    "latitude": 42.874,
    "longitude": 25.3312,
    "description": "Large cabinet orchestrion (late 19th c., built in Prague) with strings, bellows and keyboards; later electrified in 1906 ([bnr.bg](https://bnr.bg/ru/post/101067363/edinstvennii-orkestrion-v-bolgarii-hranitsa-v-istoricheskom-muzee-g-gabrovo#:~:text=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8E%20%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85%20%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9%20%D0%B8%D0%B7%20%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%2C,%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%20%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8E%20%D0%B8%D0%B7%20%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8)).",
    "history": "Purchased by industrialist Ivan Khadzhiberov and delivered from Prague (via Danube) after 1878 ([bnr.bg](https://bnr.bg/ru/post/101067363/edinstvennii-orkestrion-v-bolgarii-hranitsa-v-istoricheskom-muzee-g-gabrovo#:~:text=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8E%20%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85%20%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9%20%D0%B8%D0%B7%20%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%2C,%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%20%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8E%20%D0%B8%D0%B7%20%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8)); electrified in 1906; Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand famously heard it in 1908 ([bnr.bg](https://bnr.bg/ru/post/101067363/edinstvennii-orkestrion-v-bolgarii-hranitsa-v-istoricheskom-muzee-g-gabrovo#:~:text=%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9%20%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%20%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%20%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0,%D0%B2%20%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D0%B8%D0%B7%20%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2)).",
    "notes": "The only known orchestrion in Bulgaria; currently non-functional and awaiting restoration ([bnr.bg](https://bnr.bg/ru/post/101067363/edinstvennii-orkestrion-v-bolgarii-hranitsa-v-istoricheskom-muzee-g-gabrovo#:~:text=%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%85%20%D0%B8%20%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%20%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C,%D0%B2%20%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D0%B8%D0%B7%20%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2))."
  },
  {
    "city": "Belgrade",
    "country": "Serbia",
    "venue": "Museum of Science and Technology (Politehnicki Muzej)",
    "latitude": 44.818,
    "longitude": 20.456,
    "description": "Historic American-style orchestrion (early 20th c.) now in the Science and Technology Museum collection ([bnr.bg](https://bnr.bg/ru/post/101067363/edinstvennii-orkestrion-v-bolgarii-hranitsa-v-istoricheskom-muzee-g-gabrovo#:~:text=%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C%20%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8C%20%D0%B2%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9,%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%8F%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%20%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%20%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2)).",
    "history": "Reportedly the only other orchestrion surviving in the region apart from Gabrovo ([bnr.bg](https://bnr.bg/ru/post/101067363/edinstvennii-orkestrion-v-bolgarii-hranitsa-v-istoricheskom-muzee-g-gabrovo#:~:text=%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C%20%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8C%20%D0%B2%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9,%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%8F%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%20%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%20%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2)).",
    "notes": "Mentioned by Bulgarian media as the sole other Balkan orchestrion ([bnr.bg](https://bnr.bg/ru/post/101067363/edinstvennii-orkestrion-v-bolgarii-hranitsa-v-istoricheskom-muzee-g-gabrovo#:~:text=%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C%20%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8C%20%D0%B2%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9,%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%8F%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%20%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%20%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2))."
  }
]