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This is quite remark feat and it is all because of Russ!

It sounds like he is a fantastic repair guy and has his own fans too! I am very excited to see what he does! He hasn't even been there for a year and he has fixed stuff that was untouched for decades!

If you think this is exciting, wait for the Summer of 2025 when the Moon will return! I hear it is going to be fantastic and will be worked on by some fantastic people!

Last I heard Russ was working to learn how to tune pianos and reading up on how to repair Jaquet-Droz automatas! If anyone can fix it it’s Russman!

@@HD-nt9fu That would be wonderful! They need someone to tune pianos! If that is the case, House on the Rock is certainly going back into it's heyday after decades of the place showing wear and age! My approval and trust of HOTR management at the closing of the 2024 season is at an all time high and fully recovered from an abysmal record low in 2017! They've come a long way from then and are expected to only improve!

The Aida I really think could get fixed and I think it will!

You know him?

@@sammorex2543I indeed do! He’s an amazing tinkerer and mechanic of all traders! Love me Some Russ!

@@sammorex2543yep! Been friends since the early 2000s in Arizona! He is the king of tinkering and can fix just about anything!

@@HD-nt9fu Nice they have a jack of all trades!

Ah the great Russafuss, rumor has it that he only travels between dusk and dawn as he's hiding from the sun, has a hand that never stops bleeding and will weld your car doors shut if approached without being handed a $20 bill first.

Yes he seems to know what he is doing! I am excited about him and John!

Him as well as John are going to make great things happen together there!

I sadly don't as that is off display and is in such bad shape. The next one will be the Moon.

@@sammorex2543 I think after the moon gets repaired it will be next.

@@EwanMajko After the Moon will probably be the Franz Josef.

​@@sammorex2543 After the Franz Josef will probably be the Mills violano virstrato!

@@EwanMajko Honestly not sure.

It is in the house itself. Maybe it wasn't working then?

The chariot?

If I didn't film it was because it didn't work or they didn't demonstrate it.

​@@sammorex2543 is for sale??

They are intended to look like those are checks inflating.

@sammorex2543 weird. I thought they were functional, some kind of pressure regulation. I think they look creepy. Kind of like some alien frog bug thing.

The Gatehouse Ensemble is a great part for sure. Just wait until they get the Moon of Manakoora working next Summer!

It is quite worth the trip! I also recommend experiencing it in person.

If anyone can do it, it is John Miller!

They have a repair guy on staff and then there is John Miller they call in when needed.

The stuff was sold through a Stanton Auction. It is sure a shame they liquidated the collection but then it worked in my favor too.

Oh I love it! That is an understatement. I have been a longtime superfan of the Attraction and the music machines.

Yeah, that side to side action is not working.

Thank you! If you are a House on the Rock enthusiast, this your sort of channel. Feel free to subscribe if you haven't. Also there is a House on the Rock Music Machine Facebook group if you are interested with a community of people including myself who are superfans.

Thanks!

However the harp mechanisms ARE WORKING for the first time since the 90s!!

Nice! They are working on this one?

@ Well they should be I would assume! This along with the Moon were the tracks in which John Miller requested.

@@ashemiles5715 I would be surprised because it is not their style to renovate anything if they can get the old control system fired up and working even in the manner it is now. Once it dies for good would be when they would consider that. Perhaps John wants to have it for when that happens. The Moon however I expect next year.

For real? Your actual recreation?

@@BenneLuke Yep! John Miller said he was going to use it for an upcoming project. Now with the machine working though, it’s unknown when it will be used, but he plans on using it!

Oh I'm sure it has.

Thank you!

Again thank you! It is titled as "100th Psalm"

Stay tuned for more!

Just wait until this instrument is worked on!

Thank you

@@sammorex2543 No problem.

Nice! Maybe you can use that for sampling for something in the future. Apparently the creator of House on the Rock did this with antique instruments and a Mellotron for some of the earlier audio arrangements.

@ I’d love to! It definitely needs some work first though. One of the pedals doesn’t work, and the reeds are heavily out of tune. From what I know, it’s been sitting as a decoration in an old bar for most of its life.

@@ashemiles5715 I have a few reed organs myself including one that I repaired as a project during the pandemic lockdown in 2020. There is also one I have that needs a complete restoration but this is very far down on my repair list.

Both the Mills Violano and Nickelodeon Piano Company player piano orchestrion with Aeolian roll system and Mills Violano are both in House on the Rock storage today. The Nickelodeon used to be in the pizza restaurant but was moved the Mill House in 2007 when the Seeburg KT was out for restoration then. The KT returned in 2010 and that is when the Nickelodeon left display for storage. You could see these both in American Pickers. You are lucky you got to even see these when on display! As far as the Double Mills Violano goes, that was left display in 2010 and the Encore Automatic Banjo was moved there (the banjo was taken off display in late 2021). All of these instruments need restoration and it could happen someday!

@@sammorex2543 your totally right, these things need lots of care. The Nickelodeon is definitely one of my favorites, and I actually haven’t even ever been to the HOTR, but I think I’m going this summer for the first time 🤞🏻and they also need to find a better storage facility, by what it looks like in American pickers, the place is rotten and might be in danger of collapse lol but I hope they get on it.

I bought them on Ebay.

I don't understand why at all! Nobody I talked to knows. The church doesn't have any knowledge either.