Old House Tours

The Musical Wonder House is a 32-room mansion in Wiscasset, Maine that was built in 1852 by shipyard owners Henry Clark and A. Wood.  Today it houses an impressive 5000+ restored musical boxes, player grand pianos and organs, spring-wound phonographs, musical birds, porcelains, clocks, steins, whistlers, and several musical paintings.

This tour is a two-for-one: The house and it’s furnishings via the Museum’s official site, and a great photo tour from CuriousExpeditions.com, whose photo set of the museum is here on Flickr.

Be sure to scroll down to the audio track at the bottom of the Curious Expeditions blog post and take a listen.  It is from an 1898 Emerald Polyphon with 22-inch diameter discs and featuring 16 tuned orchestral bells playing in unison with 2 sonorous music combs.