About The Grange
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The Grange Musical Collection a living Museum, home of the Mechanical Music Museum Trust. museum display combines the largest selection of mechanically operated musical instruments in the UK and also a collection of related material, working models showing how the mechanism perform, examples of the types of paper and card music used to activate the machines. Take a browse to see just a small selection of instruments in our care. |
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History of Jonny Ling by Alan Smith
Well known organ enthusiast and collector of mechanical music, Jonny Ling first opened his Collection to the public in 1992.
His love of mechanical music grew from the time when, as a young boy, he played the JC Bishop barrel organ for his grandmother in North Lopham Church and visits to Bressingham Steam Museum. He acquired his first instrument at the age of fourteen and having trained with Diss organ builders, W A Boggis has been organ building, restoring, collecting mechanical music, at The Grange, since then.
Under the guidance of the late Robert Finbow he became a Trustee of the Museum of Mechanical Music at Cotton, following its closure, the major exhibits of the Cotton Museum are being relocated to “The Grange Musical Collection”.
The combined collection promises to be the largest and most diverse of all self playing musical instruments in the U.K. including theatre, dutch street, fairground, cafe organs, piano orchestrions, chamber organs, musical boxes, polyphons, barrel pianos and many more!
His love of mechanical music grew from the time when, as a young boy, he played the JC Bishop barrel organ for his grandmother in North Lopham Church and visits to Bressingham Steam Museum. He acquired his first instrument at the age of fourteen and having trained with Diss organ builders, W A Boggis has been organ building, restoring, collecting mechanical music, at The Grange, since then.
Under the guidance of the late Robert Finbow he became a Trustee of the Museum of Mechanical Music at Cotton, following its closure, the major exhibits of the Cotton Museum are being relocated to “The Grange Musical Collection”.
The combined collection promises to be the largest and most diverse of all self playing musical instruments in the U.K. including theatre, dutch street, fairground, cafe organs, piano orchestrions, chamber organs, musical boxes, polyphons, barrel pianos and many more!
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Please note ‘The Grange’ is a private collection. Group tours and demonstrations by appointment only. Please contact us, or see the dates of our next open days.
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