A mechanical music band organ. The Dutch Village. Holland Michigan. September 1986.

A mechanical music band organ. The Dutch Village. Holland Michigan. September 1986., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

Hi everyone!

Welcome aboard Eddie's Railfan Page, from the city of Chicago Illinois USA.

I took this photograph way back in September of 1986. We are at a popular local cultural family entertainment establishment in Holland Michigan known as "The Dutch Village".

An operating display on the grounds of the Dutch Village, is this unique mechanical "Band Organ", which plays the kind of music one would hear from a Merry Go Round ride at a carnival or amusement park.

These mechanical music machines with operating drums, cymbals, flutes and other instruments...operate on either a paper Piano Roll, or folding cardboard book with holes and slots to activate the various musical instruments.

This was life before the invention of the Jukebox.

Thanks.
Eddie K.