You might think a banjo would not play itself, but at the Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum near Mt. Fuji, Japan, there is a little cabinet where the opposite is true. This banjo will speak to you. Turn a crank and maybe you’ll hear a little “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” The museum exhibits a spectacular collection of automatic musical instruments, mechanical organs and antique music boxes. The world’s largest fairground organ, an "orchestrion” fills an entire room here, and had been originally designed for the Titanic.
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08.02.25