![]() A company catalogue states that they ran on "any electric lighting current" and used "no more than one 16-candle power light." They were designed to operate on 110 volts direct current. The Violano-Virtuoso was all electric and all the moving parts were set in motion by electric motors or electromagnets. However, the Violano-Virtuoso have the highest survival rate of any type of player piano they required little maintenance when they were first produced and that is still the case for those that survive.Ī common player piano operates pneumatically. Today, some sources estimate that only about 750 of the single machines and fewer than 100 of the Double Mills still exist, while other sources estimate that several thousand machines survive. The exact number of machines produced is not known. By his death he had been granted over 300 patents, many for the technology used in the Violano-Virtuoso. Production seems to have finished in 1930. In 1914 an instrument was made especially for the Smithsonian Institution. Machines with two violins are known as the De Luxe Model Violano-Virtuoso or the Double Mills. Early Violan-Virtuoso's have a glass divider between the violin mechanism and the piano mechanism. Technology used in the instrument was patented on 4 June 1912, under United States patents 1,028,495 and 1,028,496. The Violano-Virtuoso was not available to the public until 1911. ![]() The Nethercutt Museum and Collection in Sylmar California Piano and Violin Nickelodeon on Display, still costs a Nickel to play Mills Violano-Virtuoso - 1912 Introduced as "The Mechanical Musical Wonder of the world" ![]()
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