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NEW ENGLAND, NORTH EAST and MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST/ CÔTE EST/ OSTKÜSTE

(Connecticut-Delaware-Maine-Maryland-New Hamshire-New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania-Vermont-Washington DC)

CONNECTICUT

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

An MBSI Musical Museum

Grosse collection/Large Museum/Grosse Sammlung

Dozens of mechanical musical items including a broad selection of disc & cylinder type musical boxes, small organs toys and reproducing piano.

Five rooms of instruments donated and loaned by members of the Musical Box Society International.

295 West ave.
Norwalk
Connecticut 06850
Tel. 203-838-9799 203-838-9799 .
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DELAWARE

Johnson Victrola Museum

Edison phonograph, 2 gramophones, 43 Victor talking machines and Victrolas, 15,000 Victor records

Open Tues.-Sat. l0am-3:30pm
Bank and New Street
Dover
Delaware 19901
Tel. 302-739-3262 302-739-3262 .
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MAINE

Musical Wonder House

Grosse collection/Big collection/Grosse Sammlung

Not in MBSI Listing

Wiscasset
Maine 04578
(30 miles NE of Portland)
Tel. (207) 882-7163 (207) 882-7163
http://www.musicalwonderhouse.com

Wells Auto Museum

Twelve instruments including Seeburg style E’ ’KT’ Special ’L’ & orchestrion ; Mills Violin ; Wurlitzer band organ Model 125, Regina Hexaphones, Regina changer ; Nelson-Wiggens, Coinola, National Calliope

Rt. 1 (Box 496),
Wells
Maine 04090
(Between Portsmouth and Portland)
Tel. 207-646-9064 207-646-9064 .
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MARYLAND

Glen Echo Park carrousel and Wurlitzer 165 organ

Owned by the Federal Government

Visitation : Year round. Operating Hours, Seasons : Daily, 6am-1am. Closed Christmas and Thanksgiving
Location : Glen Echo, Maryland, on the Potomac Pallisades, a few miles North West of Washington, DC
Address : 7300 , MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, MD 20812
Telephone : Main office : 301-492-6229 301-492-6229 ; Events hotline : 301-492-6282 301-492-6282
http://www.nps.gov/glec

Museum and Library of Maryland History

Musical boxes which are occasionally on display ; piano, Grand Harmonicon and musical instruments

201 W. Monument St..,
Baltimore
Maryland 21201
Tel. 410-685-3750 410-685-3750 .
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NEW HAMPSHIRE

Clark’s Trading Post

Early American gadget and novelties, including Wurlitzer ’LX’ orchestrion, & 150 band organ, Double Mills Violano, Coinola Midget, Link ’2E’,

and Seeburg ’G’ & ’KT’ orchestrions, also Artizan band organ, Tangley ’CA-43’ Calliope, and Western Electric orchestrion and others

Open summers only
U.S. Rt. 3
N. Woodstock
New Hampshire 03262
(Mailing address : PO. Box 1).
Tel. 602-745-8913 602-745-8913 .
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NEW JERSEY

Morris Museum

Founded in 1913, a general museum on arts, science and history

It houses since Nov. 2004 the exceptionnal worldwide well known Guinness Collection (ca 700 items) of Mechanical music instruments and automata (with especially many rare musical boxes).

Some are exhibited now (please ask), but a new wing is under construction to house and show the whole collection. The opening is scheduled for 2006.

Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ; Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. ; and Sunday 1-5 p.m.

Admission to the museum is $7 for adults and $5 for children, students and senior citizens.

Admission is always free for museum members and is free to the public every Thursday between 1 and 8 p.m.

6 Normandy Heights Road (at the corner of Columbia Turnpike)
Morristown
New Jersey 07960
Info : Tel. 973-971-3700 973-971-3700 .
http://www.morrismuseum.org

Edison National Historic Site

The West Orange home and laboratory where Thornas Edison lived and worked from 1887 to 1931

National Park Service.

Laboratory tours are given daily from 10:30am-3:30pm.

Tours of Edison’s home, Wedn.-Sun., 11am-4pm.

Visitor’s Center open daily, access beyond the center is by guided tour only.

Main St. and Lakeside Ave.
West Orange
New Jersey 07052
Tel. 201-736-0550 201-736-0550 .
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NEW YORK STATE

Buffalo &Erie County Historical Society

There are currently 3 organettes on display, all late 19th cent.

The collection contains a total ol 12 mechanical music machines, 5 organettes, 1 street organ, 5 cylinder music boxes, and 1 disc music box.

This is a fine local collection documenting musical life in western New York (18th cent. to 1930s).

Open : Tue.-Sat. l0am-9pm, Sun. noon-5am, (closed Mondays)
25 Notthingham Ct. 14216
Buffalo
New-York 3199
Tel. 716 873 9644 716 873 9644 .

Empire State Theatre and Musical Instrument Museum

A player piano, a Nickelodeon, several phonos and parlor organs and a large Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ (concerts)

Located in the Empire Expo Center Grounds, next to route 690 west of Syracuse (NY)
Info : call 1.800.475.FAIR 1.800.475.FAIR - 315.487.7711 315.487.7711 , fax 315.487.9260,
or write to : Empire Expo Center
581 State Fair Blvd.
Syracuse
NY 13209
http://www.empireexpo.com/exhibits/theatre.museum.html

The F X. Matt Brewery Tour

Seven instruments on display including Symphonion, 3 disc musical clock, 15 1/2’ Polyphon, Mermod cylinder box, Edison disc phono, Clariona, Polyphon upright, Seeburg 1910

Court at Varick Streets,
Utica
New-York 13502
Tel. 315-732-0022 315-732-0022 .

Q-R-S Music Rolls, Inc.

Pianos : Six player and reproducing pianos, and piano roil perforating and recording equipment including new computerized storage and control systems for perforating rolls.

Two tours dally, at l0am & 2pm only, Mon.-Fri. except holidays.

Adults $2, Children $1, redeemable with purchase.

(Sorry, no facilities for the handicapped.)

1026 Niagara St.
Buffalo
New-York 14213
Tel. 716-885-4600 716-885-4600 .
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PENNSYLVANIA

DeBence Antique Music World Museum

Over 100 instruments : Nickelodeons, band organs, Caliola, street barrel organs, German organs, and other interesting antiques.

Open year round, offer guided tours and play many of the instruments
1261, Liberty Street
Franklin
Pennsylvania 16323
(Roughly between Pittsburgh and Erie)
Exactly located just 16 miles north of Interstate 80 on Route 8 (Liberty Street), in the center of historic downtown Franklin.
Take route 8 North at exit 29 of I-80.
Tel. (814) 432-8350 (814) 432-8350 or 888 547 23 77
Fax : (814) 437-7193
www/debencemusicworld.com

Hershey Museum

Regina music box (with quarter slot), a large cylinder music box (formerly owned by Milton Hershey) on exhibit.

Collection of other mechanical musical instruments include a barrel organ reed organs, organettes and various disc and cylinder players.

Accessible by appointment only for research or other scholarly purposes only.

Open daily except New Years Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas, Memorial Day, Labor Day, l0am-6pm ; 10am-5pm the rest of year.

170W. Hersgetpark Drive
Hershey
Pennsylvania 17033
(15 M E of Harrisburg)
Tel. 717-534-3439 717-534-3439 .

Knoebels Amusement Resort

Frati organ playing Artizan rolls, August Berni (Bruder) playing original book music, Wurlitzer 185 (factory conversion of De Kleist barrel organ), 146B (factory conversion of a Bruder barrel organ),

Wurlitzer Caliola, Tangley Calliaphone, coin piano.

Open daily llam-l0pm, Memorial Day through Labor Day ; or by appointment
Rd. 1, Route 487,
Elysburg, Pennsylvania 17824
Tel. 717-672-2572 717-672-2572 .
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VERMONT

American Precision Museum

A national Museum ot tools and the American System’ of manufacturing the original 1846 Robbins & Lawrence Armory (a registered National Historic Landmark)

Hours May 20-Nov 1. 9am-5pm weekdays, l0am-4pm week-ends & holidays
196 Main Str.
Windsor
Vermont 05089
(South of Lebanon, NH)
Tel. 802-674-5781 802-674-5781 .

Shelburne Museum

Cylinder and disc music boxes, phonographs, miniatures, automaton, small organ

Open late May through late Oct. 10am-5pm. Museum opens at 1pm through the winter months for a special guided tour
US Route 7,
Shelburne
Vermont 05482
Museum is located 7 miles south of Burlington, VT on US Route 7.
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WASHINGTON DC

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Washington DC

Several mechanical musical instruments are demonstrated in the café (Welte orchestrion and automatic changing Regina disc music box), and in the Museum galleries (especially reproducing pianos).

There is also a Hersshell carrousel (ca 1940) in front of the old Arts and Industries Building, right opposite the Museum of American History, and a very large orchestra cylinder music box inside this building.

14th and Constitution Ave
NW Wash. DC 20560
Tel +1 202 357-2700 +1 202 357-2700 .
http://www.si.edu/organiza/Museums/nmah/
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