Thursday night my friends and I had the most wonderful musical adventure with a guided tour of the Bayernhof Music Museum in Aspinwall PA. Thank you Judy for arranging this delightful and informative experience. So many different mechanical musical instruments and a wide range of sounds. You’d think you were in Bavaria as Mr.Brown collected not only musical instruments but art and wood carvings, Hummel figurines, antlers, chandeliers and beer steins. You name it, it was on a wall, a mantel or sideboard.
Joel and Georgeann were wonderful hosts. We were introduced to quite a range of instruments including two Reproducing Pianos which is never heard of before. .
Here are a few of the instruments we listened to. The tour is quite extensive and if you come to the Pittsburgh area you should plan a tour. This enormous home was built by Charles B Brown III in 1976 and upon his death became a mechanical musical instruments museum.
The first one Joel played was this Wurlitzer Automatic Harp but you have to put a nickel in first. Click here to listen
To listen to a clip from the Welte Number 2 Cottage Orchestrion Click here
And click the Automatic Banjo to listen
Put a nickel in!
only 16 of these in the world
Early disc click to listen
There were so many interesting, unique artifacts throughout the museum.
A favorite were two board games you might recognize.
There was even a telescope in an observatory
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Phenomenal collection!
There’s so much more I didn’t post. It’s quite a place to see and hear.
Ruth, I tried them all and they all worked for me here in Spain. YouTube can be funny and I wasn’t able to “like” them but I could play them. The music box is delightful but I loved all of them. A fabulous museum. (This was on my laptop, I’ll try my tablet as well)
You are so good to take the time to test out the links and I wasn’t even thinking about your location could impact accessibility. I appreciate you Darlene, fellow blogger extraordinaire.
I tried my tablet as well and they all worked too and I was able to like them. Happy to help out.
Oh my you went over and above. Thank you Darlene. I’m grateful for your help.
We’ve been there. We would love to go back. It is an amazing place!
My first time. I was amazed!
That looks amazing. I listened to all of the links and found it fascinating. I have to wonder who services/repairs/maintains all of those intricate instruments! I can only imagine there are not many people left with those skills. How fun. We must see when we come to the burgh.
What a beautiful collection of history, I was amazed at how well everything was preserved. I was able to listen to each one of them, Thank you for sharing.
Oh I’m glad you could listen.
Wow! Very cool collection.
There were so many more to see and listen to
Love all these
What a delightful place and way to spend an evening with friends.
Yes it was definitely delightful.
What a treat, an adventure not to miss. gcr
A true adventure!
Wow! This is an EXCELLENT walk-through of the museum, thank you for your effort and sharing!
There was so much more but glad you enjoyed the highlights.