'The Musical Museum' Brentford Tour
The Musical Museum is a musical instrument museum and concert venue located in Brentford, London Borough of Hounslow.
The Musical Museum contains a significant collection of self-playing musical instruments, and one of the world's largest collections of historic musical rolls. The museum houses rare working specimens of player pianos, orchestrions, reed organs, and violin players. The largest exhibits include a fully restored Wurlitzer theatre organ (attached to a roll playing mechanism and Steinway grand piano) and a 12-rank roll playing residence organ.
The instruments and exhibits are arranged in three main galleries; the building also houses a concert hall which doubles as a cinema that seats up to 230 people, and a cafe.
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The Musical museum
This is a short video, of the amazing musical machines available in the musical museum in Brentford, London. The tour ends with a performance on an amazing Wurlitzer organ, seen in the end of the video. Shot and edited on my phone.
Brentford Musical Museum - MAG daytrip
A few memories of Marlow Music Appreciation Group's visit to the Musical Museum at Brentford, which contains one of the world's biggest collections of automatic musical instruments. These include musical boxes, pianolas, violanos, barrel organs, orchestrions and the majestic 'Regal Wurlitzer' organ.
London Transport's Historic Vehicle Collection at Syon Park, Brentford. 1973
The collection has had a number of homes. It was housed as part of the Museum of British Transport at a disused tram depot in Clapham High Street (now a supermarket) from 1963 to 1972, and then at Syon Park in Brentford from 1973 to 1977, before being moved to Covent Garden in 1980. Most of the other exhibits moved to York on formation of the National Railway Museum in 1975.
Music
I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves Chris Zabriskie
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Music Museum Brentford TW80DU Charlie Chapline, Donald MacKenzie at the Wurlitzer
From the Musical Museum in London.
Pianola with Drums and xylophone. What a combination! I filmed this at The Musical Museum in London a few years ago.
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A mechanical instrument in good working order!
Riley and The Regal Wurlitzer at The Musical Museum
My two year son at the Musical Museum in Brentford, London, UK
Wurlitzer Theatre Organ at The Musical Museum in Brentford
Demonstration: Music & brief talk on the Wurlitzer Theatre Organ at The Musical Museum in Brentford, Greater London. Demonstration conducted prior to showing of a silent film, which the Wurlitzer accompanied.
Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 649 - Horticultural Research And Piano Museum (1967)
Out takes (rushes, cuts) for stories in Colour Pictorial - CP 649. The original stories are on Pathe Master tape *PM0409*.
Cuts for story HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH in CP 649. Similar footage to cut story about work in the Horticultural Research Department of Reading University.
Cuts for story PIANO MUSEUM in CP 649. Similar footage to cut story about the collection of 'self-playing' pianos in the collection of Frank Holland.
(Cuts to be checked when tape is returned from Arion).
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British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
Battle of Britain museum opens in London
A £9.5m museum to commemorate the Battle of Britain in the RAF's headquarters of the time is set to open in north London.
Bentley Priory, in Harrow, was the headquarters of Fighter Command in the summer of 1940.
The rooms of Bentley Priory's mansion house will now be open to the public for the first time in 80 years.
Project manager for the Bentley Priory Battle of Britain Trust, Erica Ferguson, gave BBC News a first glimpse inside.
The Forest in the Snow - 2
A snow-covered Epping Forest near Wake Valley Pond, High Beech, on 19th December 2010. The music is 'Let It Snow', played by Matt Ross on the Wurlitzer organ of the Musical Museum, Brentford, London.
Piano Museum (1967)
Brentford, Middlesex.
At the British Piano Museum we see several automatic pianos playing. Various shots show a Steinway Reproducing Grand Piano, seemingly playing itself; museum owner Frank Holland opens a lid on the piano so we can see the music roll turning round. We then see a clockwork barrel piano that came from an Edwardian pub.
Frank starts up an Edison cylinder phonograph from 1908 and we hear the tinny sound of a couple singing 'Aba Daba Honeymoon - fascinating. An upright Steinway plays a roll of music by Johann Strauss that was recorded by Richard Epstein in 1912. A Swiss music box is seen briefly, then an organ with a tambourine attached. Museum worker Mr WR Wilson sits beside a playing 1920s Honky Tonk piano, then we see the last exhibit, a Mills Violano Virtuoso, which actually plays a violin, with piano accompaniment - amazing!
Tunes played appear to be in natural sound.
Note: on file is correspondence and notes on this story, plus a tiny booklet about the museum.
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British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
West London's biggest Brentford festivals, by Master Jaim H
West London's biggest Brentford festivals on Sunday 4th September 2016| Ruth Cadbury Member of Parliament for Brentford & Isleworth/Dr Rupa Huq Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton, The Deputy Mayor of Ealing, Councillor Simon Woodroofe /Member of Rotary Club Hanwell& Northfields/ London bus driver instructor and with many-more-happy people
By: Master Jaim &Rakib H Ruhel
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Kew Bridge Museum for Water and Steam Railway 2016 11 27
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In Kew Bridge befindet sich das London Museum of Water & Steam.
Am Wochenende fahren die beiden 610 mm Dampf- und Dieselloks die 366 Meter kurze Strecke. Man nimmt gerne Spenden an. Für eine Stecke braucht man ca. 1 Minute 20 Sek.
In Kew Bridge the London Museum of Water & Steam is situated.
At the weekend the two 610 mm steam and diesel locomotives drive the 366 meters short distance. The Train needs 1 minute 20 sec for the distance.
Kenneth Williams - Going Places - 1975 - Bloomsbury, Piano Museum etc
Here's a very enjoyable BBC film circa 1975 includes a personal view of London's Bloomsbury area, and of Cromer House where he lived as a child from the legendary Kenneth Williams, a visit to Brentford's Piano Museum, now known as the Musical Museum, before moving on for a spot of village cricket.
Barry Norman covers the story as teams from Langleybury and Isleham battle it out in the Haig Village Cricket
Championships to get to the final which will be played at Lords, the Mecca of all cricketers everywhere.
I grew up in the very same area as Kenneth Williams,and my late half sister Rosie lived in Cromer House where Kenneth grew up. I also went to Argyle Primary School up until 1971 which when Kenneth attended it was called Manchester Street School. I know the Kings Cross that he knew,and up until 1966 we still used a tin bath.
wurlitzer chris barber01
This is the Wurlitzer in the Musical Museum, Brentford. One of only three working examples in Britain. The organist is Chris Barber.
A visit to the Mechanical Music Museum in Northleach
Some highlights of a guided tour at the Mechanical Music Museum in Northleach, United Kingdom.
Demonstrations of 18th- and 19th-century self-playing musical instruments including pianos, a music box and a polyphon.
A lovely surprise at the end. A human touch is always the best.
The Cotton Mechanical Music Museum [2012 video guide]
The Cotton Mechanical Music Museum at Cotton, nr Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK is a rare collection of musical gems from a time when music was produced without digital technology. The collection includes player pianos, music boxes, barrel, fairground and cafe dance organs, plus a mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ.
The collection, which also contains an enormous amount of music memorabilia and musical oddities, is open to the general public each year every Sunday afternoon from late May till early October. Visitors enjoy a guided tour, with demonstrations of various working originals, a concert featuring the Wurlitzer organ, plus music played on the fairground organs. Private group bookings can also be made for clubs and societies...
For more information visit the museums' website - MechnicalMusicMuseum.co.uk