Marvelous Music Machines

02/05/2023 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM ET

Description

Marvelous Music Machines
Sunday, February 5, 2023 | 2 - 5 PM

Tickets: $125 per person and benefits the Annapolis Opera

Tickets are required and the guided tour is limited to 60 guests and includes drinks and appetizers. Location and parking information will be sent prior to the event.

 

Tour a private collection of over fifty rare and amazing mechanical music machines! Known worldwide, this Annapolis collection includes a variety of museum worthy nickelodeons, organs, orchestrions, music boxes, and more spanning from 1836 to 2005, with many machines having less than six surviving examples in the United States. Owners Richard and Cheryl Hack will demonstrate numerous machines from the smallest handheld singing bird box to the largest machine, a Mortier Dance Organ which stands eleven feet high by twenty feet wide!