Paul Corin's Magnificient Music Machines

Musical entertainment from a bygone era, see and hear playing, the Polyphon disc musical box c.1900, pianolas and player pianos including the Ampico with rolls of great pianists like Rachmaninov and dance music played by popular pianists of the 1920�s and 30�s.

Played by an organist or from paper music rolls, The Aeolian Pipe Organ you will hear, was ordered by the 4^th Marquis of Camden, from Aeolian Hall London in July 1912 and was shipped from their American factory in January 1913 to be installed at his home, Bayham Abbey, East Sussex. The 567 organ pipes are contained in two beautiful oak cases originally each side of the entrance hall, one being under the grand staircase. Other owners of Aeolian organs included the Duke of Westminster and in the U.S.A. Frank Woolworth, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Mr Asa Candler who owned Coco-Cola.

A real show-stopper is the Belgian Cafe organ made by DeCap of Antwerp c.1938,an automatic jazzband playing from punched card, like a fair organ.

Last but not least, live performances on the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ - 693 organ pipes ranging from 16 ft tuba to �� piccolo, with Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Chimes, Sleigh Bells, Vibraphone, Drums, Cymbals and sound effects for silent films. Shipped from the factory in the U.S.A. in 1929 to the Regent Cinema, Brighton, where up to the late 40�s, the organist at the console, rising from the orchestra pit, livened up many an evening�s performance during the interval between films.

Magnificent Music Machines is in a tranquil setting by an old mill stream. Paul Corin�s father who founded the museum in 1967, was the last miller of St. Keyne and Paul himself, has a family background in entertainment as his grandfather; Bransby Williams (1870 � 1961) was a star of the music hall, famous for his portrayal on stage, film, radio and in the 1950�s television,. Of the characters of Charles Dickens and monologues such as �The Green Eye of the Little God�.

Follow the B3254 from Looe or Liskeard town centre, and turn off at the brown �Magnificent Music Machines� signs. 2 miles south of Liskeard.

By train, hourly services to St Keyne Station (request stop) on a scenic ex G.W.R. branch line from Looe or Liskeard (main line connections).

Free car park
picnic area by the river,
recordings, photography welcome,
also dogs on leads