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@MechanicalMusicTravels would you perhaps know the tune of this book/song?

@@notokey7829 Sorry, I don't recognise the piece.

The LiveAuctioneers description says "Piano Player Company, Cincinnati, USA, circa 1925."

This was made by the Symphony Player Co. of Covington, Kentucky, a small city located across the river from Cincinnati. This company made the "Rhapsodist" brand coin pianos and orchestrions, as well as the "Symphony" brand photoplayers (as here) and theatre pipe organs. The company name was also known as the "Piano Player Company" but I have to check my reference books to see the business relationship. I do know their secretary (treasurer?) was the president of the Monarch Tool & Die Co. which not only made coin-slot mechanisms for the trade and other non-musical items for vending machines, but also roll frame and pump mechanisms for small coin piano builders that didn't make their own. This is a Monarch roll frame in this photoplayer and almost certainly original. They seem to have had very limited marketing and distribution and thus sold very few instruments, and were apparently out of business by 1923 (no longer listed in the city directory). The most complete published history of the firm is given in "The Encyclopedia of American Coin Pianos and Orchestrions" by Arthur A. Reblitz and Q. David Bowers, published by AMICA (Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association) in 2019. What I think is this same photoplayer is also pictured in the chapter for the "Symphony Player Co" in "The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Volume 2" by David L. Junchen, published in 1989 by Showcase Publications. At the time, it was located in a theatre in Alpena, Michigan; possibly its original location, although the book doesn't state either way, nor does it give the name of the theatre. From old trade periodical (magazine) advertisements, we know they made at least three styles of photoplayer: models E, F, and G. Model E had a single medium-sized side cabinet, and was thus somewhat similar to the style 20 American Fotoplayer in size. Model G had two large-sized side cabinets with 4 (not 3) grill sections across per grill, and had a second organ manual (keyboard) above the piano keyboard, very much like larger Wurlitzer and Seeburg photoplayer models. I have not yet seen an original advertising photo or image of the style F, I think it is only given a text mention in the ads. Thus, since this extant photoplayer seems somewhat smaller than the style G, with slightly narrower-appearing side cabinets (with 3, not 4, sections across on the front grills) and no second organ manual, I *speculate* this was the model F.

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I stumbled on your page on Instagram where you said the Siegfried song is a German barrel organ. You weren’t lying lmao

you’re the reason i’m here 😭