Ken Caulkins is pictured on Thursday morning (05-08-14) at his shop in Ceres, Ca. with his Ragtime Castaway Band. Caulkins is an automated entertainment specialist who started making player pianos in ...

Inside a 16,000-square-foot, red-brick and sheet-metal building lies a treasure trove of antique automated musical instruments and machines once popular in parlors, drawing rooms, restaurants and ...

And it’s not just because the walls are packed with paintings. It’s also the Victorian automatic musical instruments. With the exception of the bathroom, there are the instruments in every room of the ...

Jasper Sanfilippo built his family's nut business into a publicly traded company that last year had $876 million in sales. However, it is his passion for musical instruments, particularly mechanical ...

People’s mouths drop open when they walk into the Scheffy home in South Whitehall Township. That’s because, in some ways, it’s more like a museum than a home. Ray Scheffy, 69, has added a wing to ...