Days out in the Cotswolds 2
Keith Harding’s World of Mechanical Music
This is a living museum of the various kinds of self-playing musical instruments that brought entertainment to our great grandparents when this was the only type of music available other than real musicians before the birth of radio broadcasting which started in 1924.
The museum houses an amazing variety of self playing instruments and automata that might have been found in the home all in superb condition, and presented as a live entertainment by their well-informed guides. Many of the items are for sale, as this is a constantly changing collection.
All the instruments are maintained in the most perfect possible order in their world-famous workshops on the premises.
Listen to Grieg, Paderewsky, Rachmaninov and Gerschwin giving concert performances of their own compositions, ‘live" on their reproducing pianos, in the intimacy of our Victorian music room. Savour the decadence of "Cabaret" with a performance on their 1920s Berlin café piano. Hear the latest in "hi-fi" from the 1930s on our enormous E.M.G. handmade gramophone.
Open all the year round, seven days a week. Further information can be found on their website at www.mechanicalmusic.co.uk
Yet another great day out in the idyllic Cotswolds
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