Orchestrions

Per Simon Willison, San Francisco's Musée Mécanique — a museum of mechanical music instruments — lets you activate all the orchestrions for about fifteen dollars: ten in quarters and a five-dollar bill. Since most visitors skip it, you'd likely be the only one crafting the venue's soundscape for the afternoon.

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