Amsterdam's Pianola Museum and its 20,000 paper rolls
from the look-ma-no-hands dept.
A Jordaan side street, a room full of self-playing pianos and a library of punched paper rolls: music stored as holes, which is practically a storage format. Volunteers run it, and the tours are by people who love the machines. Bonus history about who once ran a roll factory in the neighbourhood.
A small museum on Westerstraat in Amsterdam's Jordaan holding around fifty player pianos and close to twenty thousand music rolls, from the era when the pianola was a parlour sensation. Atlas Obscura's entry covers the collection, how player pianos work, and the local connection to the building now known as the Anne Frank House.
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