(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

The Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey. The palace is now a national museum.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

This Welte Style 5 Concert Orchestrion, No. 241, was built in 1896, and survives in the Sultan’s Mother-in-law’s quarters of the Dolmabahçe Palace. The organ is missing most of its pipework, and appears to have been dismantled, moved, and the parts, less pipes, just thrown inside the case in a random order. The casework has been damaged by woodworms.

(Photograph courtesy of Durward Center.)

This pinned-cylinders orchestrion stands in a palace hallway, empty with only the key frame and the pressure pump remaining. The key frame and weight motor have characteristics of Imhof, but its maker remains unknown. Also found in a palace basement were some small sets of wood organ pipes, likely from this cylinder orchestrion or some sort of flute organ.