Oak Case Aolian Nickelodeon Player Piano

Description:

Oak Case Aolian Nickelodeon Player Piano, first quarter 20th century, removable lead glass window reveals the orchestra of instruments, snare, and bass drums, triangle, tambourine, wood block, and accordion, piano soundboard marked Aolian, lower section housing the player roll mechanism with a removable oak veneered panel, twenty-five-cent coin-operated mechanism, ten Play-Rite rolls, ht. 67, wd. 64, dp. 27 in.
Estimate $2,000-2,500

object right of case has some water damage, lower peddle board has dropped, veneer lifting/loss to base, converted to a Nickelodeon, instrument functioning but needs to be tuned and adjusted, coin-operation not functioning, one roll lacking box that is on the piano, one box lacking label of songs.


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