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“You Will Certainly Have Something that Will Give Great Pleasure, and Be a Marvel in Pittsburgh”: Henry Clay Frick and American Millionaires Living with Mechanical Music, 1872–1919

“You Will Certainly Have Something that Will Give Great Pleasure, and Be a Marvel in... PHili P C. CArli “You w ill Certainly Have Something that w ill Give Great Pleasure, and b e a m arvel in Pittsburgh”: Henry Clay Frick and American m illionaires l iving with m echanical m usic, 1872–1919 t he heyday of self-playing or automatic musical instr uments in the u nited States roughly coincided with the introduction and industrializa- tion of recorded sound, that is, from approximately 1880 to 1930. During this time, thousands of automatic pianos, music boxes, and orchestrions were imported to and constructed in this country, and they were impor- tant to American technological, musical, and social life. w hen phono- graphs n fi ally usurped the position of automatic instruments in musical life, the instruments fell into disuse and were largely discarded until there was a resurgence of interest in them by collectors and historians in the 1950s; many instruments were lost before then to the ravages of neglect and sometimes purposeful destruction, so what machines are left are rare, valuable, and mostly in the hands of private collectors. m any books have appeared since the 1950s chronicling the technology and business of mechanical music, but most of these have been written from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

“You Will Certainly Have Something that Will Give Great Pleasure, and Be a Marvel in Pittsburgh”: Henry Clay Frick and American Millionaires Living with Mechanical Music, 1872–1919

Carli, Philip
American Music , Volume 32 (4) – Jul 26, 2015
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PHili P C. CArli “You w ill Certainly Have Something that w ill Give Great Pleasure, and b e a m arvel in Pittsburgh”: Henry Clay Frick and American m illionaires l iving with m echanical m usic, 1872–1919 t he heyday of self-playing or automatic musical instr uments in the u nited States roughly coincided with the introduction and industrializa- tion of recorded sound, that is, from approximately 1880 to 1930. During this time, thousands of automatic pianos, music boxes, and orchestrions were imported to and constructed in this country, and they were impor- tant to American technological, musical, and social life. w hen phono- graphs n fi ally usurped the position of automatic instruments in musical life, the instruments fell into disuse and were largely discarded until there was a resurgence of interest in them by collectors and historians in the 1950s; many instruments were lost before then to the ravages of neglect and sometimes purposeful destruction, so what machines are left are rare, valuable, and mostly in the hands of private collectors. m any books have appeared since the 1950s chronicling the technology and business of mechanical music, but most of these have been written from

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