A Tour Through the Music Box Arcade
released on LP
Rarely do we have the opportunity to hear the sounds of a past era. "A Tour Through the Music Box Arcade" and "Music of the Roaring Twenties" is an L.P. Hi-Fidelity recording of some of the world's most famous and intricate music boxes.
Old timers will recall many of the mechanical marvels recorded here but it will be a new auditory experience for the younger generation.
In 1938 Herb and Bob Horn began the acquisition of what is now the world's greatest collection of music boxes. These date back to 1790 and each has been painstakingly restored to original playing condition. Almost a hundred, of the three hundred in the collection, are described and played in delightful shows in their fabulous Sarasota, Florida, attraction.
In this specially constructed turn-of-the-century building is displayed one of the world's largest and finest restored collections of antique and classic automobiles. Music, settings, costumes and the displays create a charming "Gay Nineties" atmosphere.
Horn's Cars of Yesterday and Music Box Arcade was built in 1952 as a showplace for the extensive collections of these antique music boxes and early American automobiles.
The Horn brothers manufactured school equipment and farm machinery, and in these plants, they acquired the skills necessary for the exacting mechanics of restoration work. They learned every job in the business from precise machine work to inventing, designing and developing mechanical processes.
The love of early mechanical innovations was the motivating force that led Herb and Bob Horn into the hobbies of collecting and restoring the devices that were responsible for changing our way of living.
"A TOUR THROUGH THE MUSIC BOX ARCADE" traces the development of music boxes through the years right up to the hey-day of the phonograph.
"MUSIC OF THE ROARING TWENTIES" presents the machines that were used to attract and hold crowds of people. Some were called nickelodeons and were found in saloons, restaurants and hotel lobbies. Others supplied music for the skating rinks, theatres, circuses, political rallies, sporting events and other outdoor attractions of the period. (from the liner notes)
Tracklisting:
Side 1
1. A Tour Through the Music Box Arcade {25:13}
Side 2
1. Music of the Roaring Twenties {25:50}
(1) (2)
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