Source: Atlas Obscura
It started with clocks. It was the 1960s and the German collector Siegfried Wendel had amassed a collection of well over 100 grandfather and wall clocks. Then one fateful day, a young couple in a beat-up Volkswagen appeared on Wendel’s doorstep to see if he might just be interested in what they had in their backseat.
It wasn’t a timepiece, but a gorgeous walnut-veneered, wood inlaid Polyphon.
Wendel was smitten, and a love affair (or obsession, some might say) with mechanical musical instruments was born. Wendel bid auf wiedersehen to his clocks and began amassing automated and mechanical musical instruments, most of which were…
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