Last month I found myself in Traverse City, Mich., at the Music House Museum. The museum started as a collection of pre-1930s music-making machines stored in a farmer’s barn amid the area’s ...

James]’ Mechanical Organ of Dutch origin has been around longer than he has, but thanks to being rebuilt over the years and ...

NEVADA CITY, Mont. — A hundred-years-ago, music machines like player pianos and band organs were as much a part of American culture as our contemporary i Tunes. Many of those old machines are now in ...

In the Pittsburgh mansion-turned-museum known as the Bayernhof, the 1920s player piano that magically conjures up the spirit of stars like George Gershwin is just one of more than 140 rare music ...

Walter Mathis could play pretty much anything on the piano — as long as it was one particular piano. The grand piano in the Napoleon parlor of the late preservationist's home, which he dubbed Villa ...

Since the 19th century, music lovers have been putting coins in the jukebox to hear their favorite tunes. On that note, the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection curators at the Morris Museum have put ...

In an era of iPods, Internet radio, DJs and high-tech sound systems, the venerable jukebox is still an object of fascination. It's hard not to grin when Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" crackles from ...

MARYSVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) – Music machines are huge cabinets that have musical instruments in them. You put in a nickel and a tune plays on a real paper reel. To say they are old-fashioned would be an ...

Remember when you could put another dime in the jukebox and rock around the clock to your favorite song? Believe it or not, those happy days aren’t over yet. Though the dime is now more like 50 cents ...