Paul Corin's Magnificent Music Machines

Paul Corin's Magnificent Music Machines

Paul Corin's Magnificent Music Machines
St Keyne Station
St Keyne
Liskeard
Cornwall
PL14 4SH

Tel: 01579 343 108
E-Mail: paulcorinmusic@yahoo.co.uk

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About Paul Corin's Magnificent Music Machines

Step back in time, with nostalgic sounds from the first half of the twentieth century. Entertainment for all the family, from a more relaxed era of Steam Trains, Austin Seven Cars and the Picture-Palace with it's Mighty WurliTzer Organ. By the early 1900's the dulcet tones of the Musical Box were being eclipsed by the novelty of sound recordings, from the Phonograph and the newly invented Gramophone, as home entertainment became more affordable. If you were reasonably well off you might be able to invest in a Player Piano or Pianola, these instruments achieved their greatest popularity in the 1920's and 30's, with expensive models, such as the Welte-Mignon and the Ampico being able to reproduce from a paper music roll, the performance of the pianist, for example Grieg and Rachmaninov, or in the case of the Ampico, superb arrangements of dance music from Broadway Shows and Hollywood Films.
The most exciting new sound of the early twentieth century, was the Mighty WurliTzer Theatre Organ, a kind of one man orchestra, originally designed to accompany silent films, but when talking pictures arrived in 1927,they were then played to provide a short musical interlude between the films. Our Mighty WurliTzer Theatre Organ was shipped from the U.S.A. in 1929 to the Regent Theatre in