Walt Disney World Music Box Collection!

Walt Disney World Music Box Collection

My last few trips to Walt Disney World I have been trying to seek out these hidden antiques which are strewn all over the property in unique places.  This one is my favorite it's the J.P. Seeburg - Seeburg KT Orchestrion or nickelodeon. This nickelodeon, according to it's plaques, was built in 1927.  Its instruments include: Piano, Mandolin, Triangle, Xylophone and Castanets.

     Amazingly this 84 year old nickelodeon is located on an empty wall just as you walk into the Magic Kingdom's Main Street Rail Road Station.  After looking it over for a good long while I was pleasantly surprised Once I discovered how to operate it that it worked and sounded so beautiful.  I don't know the name of the song that is on it's roll though, if someone knows it please let me know in the comments section.

     Walt Disney World bought a very large collection of nickelodeons and Orchestrians from Paul Eakin in the 1970's and moved them all from Sikeston, MO and St. Louis, MO to various places. The largest being "Big Bertha" which is housed in a wall of the Grand Floridian's 1900 Park Fare and painted in Mary Poppins colors, and is only played during breakfast.  I'm 90% sure this Seeburg nickelodeon came from that collection.  This nickelodeon was originally located in the Penny Arcade on Main Street of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom park.

This is the video of the Seeburg KT I shot October 2009

I've been trying to locate the other pieces in the Disney antique music box collection.

1. "Big Nelly", a 61-key Artizan from the former Paul Eakins collection was shipped to Disneyland Paris when it opened and sits unused as a prop in the carrousel. 
2. Big Bertha – Limonaire Fair Organ with 3 hand carved figures Currently can be heard everyday at Breakfast at 1900 Park Fare Restaurant at the Grand Floridian Hotel.
3. Seeburg E with flute pipes is in Crocket's Tavern in Fort Wilderness (this instrument has supposedly been sold)
4. Coinola Midget with flute pipes and a Wurlitzer style C Orchestra Piano are in storage
5. LOUDMOUTH SADIE MAE a Gavioli Military Trumpet Organ was used to record American on Parade and was sold.
6. Welte model 4 concert orchestrion, Penny Arcade on Main Street Disneyland.
7. Nelson-Wiggen model 6 orchestrion (with xylophone removed), Main Street train station Disneyland.
8. Coinola C2 orchestrion, ex-Paul Eakins, Golden Horseshoe Revue (second floor), Frontier Town Disneyland.
9. Symphonion upright disc music box. 20th Century Music Company on Main Street (right next door to the movie theatre) Disneyland.
10. Gavioli fairground organ, original chassis and drums contained in Disney Dumbo case with speakers providing the music (organ itself no longer plays). Located Disneyland in building adjacent to the flying Dumbo ride.
11. Engelhardt model F cabinet piano with flute pipes. This was formerly on display in the "Country Bear" arcade at Disneyland.
12. Wurlitzer model C orchestrion. is in Disney storage.
13. Wurlitzer model L orchestrion which was once on display on the Mark Twain dock at Disneyland.
14. Coinola Midget model F cabinet piano with flute pipes is in Disney storage.
15. Seeburg KT with xylophone is in Disney storage.
16. Mills Violano-Virtuoso is in Disney storage.
17. Seeburg "Grayhound" cabinet piano with dog race mechanism is in Disney storage
18. Universal "Nickelodeon" orchestrion with xylophone (modern machine). This instrument was once on display near the entrance of the Penny Arcade at Disneyland now in storage.
19. Ragtime Automated Music model ST orchestrion (modern machine). Was once in the lobby of the Country Bear Jamboree attraction at Disneyland and was put in storage upon the shows closure Sep 9, 2001.
20. One of the Wurlitzer C's Named "Mr Sam" part of the Paul Eakin collection has been restored by Robert's Music Restorations and now is on working display at the Diamond Horseshoe Restaurant at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom in Frontierland. 
21. Most of the collection was sold in 1997

From Chris Carlisle (Paul Eakin's grandson) The following list is the complete list of the Paul Eakin collection that the Walt Disney company purchased. The collection was fabulous and included so much more then music boxes.

Please visit Chris' website: http://www.bandorganmusic.com/ 

1. Belgian Band Organ
2. 34 Whistle Steam Calliope - experimental model made by the Tos. J. Nichols
3. Seeburg Style “H” - The largest Orchestrion made by Seeburg
4. Encore Automatic Banjo - made in the 1890s
5. Beale Street Special
6. Mr Sam – Large Wurlitzer Orchestrion from Memphis
7. Big Bertha – Limonaire Fair Organ with 3 hand carved figures
8. Big Nelly – 61 key Artizan Band Organ
9. Sara Jane - #148 Wurlitzer Military Band Organ
10. Clancy O'Toole – 43 whistle Tangley Calliope
11. Wurlitzer Caliola – with drums and a rear mounted keyboard
12. Style “O” Wurlitzer Theatre Player
13. Seeburg Style “K.T.” or “Eagle” - with flutes, castanets, triangle, mandolin and piano
14. Wurlitzer Barroom Piano
15. Sextrola – One of a kind machine made in 1908 for the Red Light Districts
16. Mills Single Violin – plays first and second violin and piano
17. Style C-2 Coinola – plays flute, bass drum, snare drum, snare drum roll, cymbal, mandolin and piano
18. Memory Lane Special – Coinola plays bass drum, snare drum, snare drum roll, flute pipe, triangle, wood block, tambourine, tympani, castanets, cymbal, orchestra bells, mandolin and piano
19. Wurlitzer Organette – has about 100 pipes, pipes mounted on rear of machine.
20. Seeburg “E” - plays flute pipe, mandolin and piano
21. Seeburg “Celeste” - plays over 100 pipes and 3 hand played chimes
22. Seeburg “K.T.” - with xylophone, tambourine, triangle, castanets, mandolin and piano
23. Coinola Style “A” “The Madam's Piano” - plays piano and mandolin
24. Seeburg Dog Race – Greyhound Race Machine that plays mandolin and piano
25. Fratti Monkey Organ – 20 key street organ or Hurdy Gurdy plays “Ta Ra Boom Der Aye” and “Yankee Doodle”
26. Cretors Horse Drawn Popcorn Wagon
27. Grandma (Esmerelda) Fortune Teller – Gypsy Wax
28. Lord's Prayer Stamping Machine
29. Drop Picture Arcade Piece – Ornate
30. Mystic Ray Fortune Telling Machine
31. Smiling Sam
32. Mystic Pen
33. Selectroscope – 5 reel Mutoscope
34. True Love Letter Post Office
35. License Bureau
36. Permits
37. Cupid's Post Office
38. Seeress - in the same cabinet as Crystal Gazer
39. How to Attract the Opposite Sex – attached to How Do You Look In Bed
40. How Do You Look In Bed – attached to How to Attract the Opposite Sex
41. Solar Horoscope
42. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Rate x 1920”
43. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Cheating the Chimney Worker”
44. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “The Elopement”
45. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Old Time Flickers”
46. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “The Bar Maid's Helper”
47. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Battle of Chateau”
48. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “The Great Stagecoach Robbery”
49. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Dempsey-Tunney Fight”
50. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Only For Fun”
51. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Old Time Flickers”
52. Mutoscope – (Heavy Iron) “Oo-La La Girl”
53. Small Mutoscope - “The Veil Dance”
54. Whom You Should Marry – 12 Slots
55. Magic Pen
56. Gypsy Palmist
57. Roover's Nameplate Machine – (I think this is a typo and should be “Rover's”)
58. Lord's Prayer Stamping Machine
59. Cail-O-Scope - “Tom Mix”
60. Selectroscope – 5 reel Mutoscope
61. Crystal Gazer – in the same cabinet as Seeress
62. Palmistry
63. Railroad Post Office
64. World Horoscope – 12 slots
65. License Bureau
66. Your Future Family
67. Magic Tricks
68. Your Ideal Love Mate
69. Play Football
70. Kentucky Derby
71. Small Mutoscope - “The Jealous Wife”
72. Small Mutoscope - “Ziegfield Follies”
73. Mill's Illusion Arcade Piece – skull
74. Be Healthy, Electric Nerve & Massage
75. Grandmother's Predictions – oak case wood figure
76. Miniature Steam Shovel
77. Matilda – Donkey Fortune Machine (this machine was not sold to Disney)
78. Puss In Boots - (this machine was not sold to Disney)
79. Sister Patricia - (this machine was not sold to Disney)
80. Snow White And The 7 Dwarfs - “Washing Scene” (mutoscope?)
81. Paddy And The Pig
82. Fratti Street Organ – made for push cart
83. Sadie Mae Band Organ
84. Molinari Monkey Organ