KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ When Music Was Mechanical
Digital Audio
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1973.01.25.c2Program Length
70 minDates
1973-01-25 | broadcast| 1973-01-23 | created
Description
Charles Amirkhanian takes a tour of a show on mechanical musical instruments at the Oakland Museum, which ran from Dec. 16, 1972 thru Feb. 4, 1973. Charles is joined by Gretchen Schneider, Asst. Curator of History, who describes the show, which took almost 2 years to plan and included over 80 instruments representing a cross section of all different device types since the turn of century. Some of the instruments discussed and demonstrated include, the Lyon & Healy Empress Electric Orchestrion, the Wurlitzer Model 165 Band Organ, a Barrel Organ, the Violano Virtuoso, and the Turnaphone, among others.Genres
Unconventional instrumentsMechanical music
Musical Selections
[numerous unidentified pieces] -- Menuet in G Major / Ignace Jan Paderewski -- Flight of the Bumblebee / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- We're in the MoneyPerformers
Phil Ohman, (We're in the Money)Subjects
Mechanical musical instrumentsPlayer piano music
Player piano
Orchestrion
Wurlitzer organ
Barrel organ
Violano-virtuoso
Music box
Mechanical singing-bird boxes
Mechanical organs
Mechanical pianos
Piano music (Ragtime)
Related places
Oakland (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Amika & Musical Box SocietyOakland Museum
Mills Novelty Co. of Chicago
Lyon & Healy Piano Co.
Ampico Reproducing Piano
Schneider, Gretchen
Amirkhanian, Charles
Nancarrow, Conlon, 1912-1997
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908
Warren, Harry, 1893-1981
Ohman, Phil, 1896-1954
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941