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For Sale: This is a really nice choice un restored circa 1927 MILLS VIOLANO VIRTUOSO. This late model machine is complete and comes with 24 original and re cut rolls + an original extra spool to play the spool less rolls. It also comes with an original Violano wall box and some new reproduction parts,( bow yoke and new weight arms).
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Sure wish I could afford to buy this. The price drop might generate some interest. Ebay says there are 52 people "watching." I wonder if they have turned down lowball offers.
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Aug 26, 2009· Always as played on a Mills Violano-Virtuoso. This mechanical player piano/violin was very kindly demonstrated to a neighbor and me by the neighbor's friend. This .
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The Mills Novelty Company, Incorporated of Chicago was once a leading manufacturer of coin-operated machines, including slot machines, vending machines, and jukeboxes, in the United States.Between about 1905 and 1930, the company's products included the Mills Violano-Virtuoso and its predecessors, celebrated machines that automatically played a violin and, after about 1909, a piano.
We also have been making music rolls for over 15 years, and have sold well over 6,000 rolls for various machines. Currently we stock Mills Violano rolls and can ship any of over 40 different rolls immediately. Restorations, service, and music rolls.
Museum quality restorations on Mills Violano Virtuoso, Orchesn, Nickelodeon, Player Piano, Band Organ, Crank Organ, Roller Organ, Dance Organ, Fair Organ and Calliope. Call today for all of your restoration needs: 407-234-4747
Mills Violano Virtuoso For Sale, Oak Case – Unrestored This is a fine unrestored Mills Violano Virtuoso in a desirable quarter sawn oak case. It has a late style mechanism. It is affordable for the craftsman who desires a well preserved instrument. Contact me for additional photos and information.
Mills Novelty Company is pleased to provide this referral to a reliable source of replacement parts for the Mills Violano Virtuoso. Haughawout Music Company is not owned or operated by Mills Novelty Company. Call us for all your Mills parts needs, we have in stock many original parts not listed here, with new parts manufactured daily.
New Mills Violano Rolls Sound Bad By John J. Breen ... Violano rolls number 1 through (approximately) number 1750 are early style and 1751 through 3121 are late style (there is some overlap of types from 1740 to 1760). If you put an early style roll on a late style machine and have the violin mute function on your machine, the roll will sound ...
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The Violano Virtuoso uses rolls of perforated paper to play like a "player piano," and the song that is played is changed by changing the paper rolls. According to a Mills Novelty Co. catalogue they ran on "any electric lighting current" and used "no more than one 16-candle power light."
The Mills Violano Virtuoso stands among the most complicated and captivating automatic musical instruments ever produced. The musical arrangements are programmed on paper rolls and read by hundreds of wires that send signals to the violin and the piano mechanisms.
ORIGINAL MILLS ROLLS FOR SALE. We have recently acquired a few dozen Original Violano Rolls. If you need a few, call us for details. 800-691-6042
Rolls 1 to about 1000 and 1800 to 2500 are well documented. Information between rolls 1000 and 1800 is very sparse and it may be that these roll numbers were never used. The Violano-Virtuoso was a heavy object. The first page of the Violano Virtuoso manual stated that to lift the instrument from the delivery wagon would need "3 good men".
Machines with two violins are known as the De Luxe Model Violano Virtuoso or commonly known today as the Double Mills. In 1914 an instrument with many very early rolls was presented from the Mills Company to the Smithsonian Institution, it still exists today, located in the Smithsonian Directors Office.
The ingenious new Digital Player can be attached to the Violano without interfering with its ability to play original music rolls, nor does the new device impact or detract from the originality of any Violano-Virtuoso. For additional information please contact the Mills Novelty Company. The Mills Novelty Company Database
Jul 29, 2006· Five Original Mills Violano Virtuoso Rolls, in their original boxes, 2865 (Dance Tunes); 2770 with original blocks (Five Fox Trot Sensations); 2882 (Latest Craze in Spring Styles); 3047 (Already on the Best Sellers List); and 2878 (Latest Craze in Songland and Danceland). Estimate $250-300
The Mills Violano was the United States's answer to a violin orchesn. Hailed as 'one of the greatest inventions of the early 20th century', this machine differed from almost every other mechanical instrument being electrically operated rather than pneumatically.
Feb 04, 2009· This is a gorgeous Mills Double Violana Virtuoso that has been beautifully restored. It has two violins, for playing first and second chair parts, in addition to the piano. Just underwent a 100 ...