Home of the nickelodeons
Antique music machines
Nickelodeons, orchestrions, player pianos, band organs, phonographs, and jukeboxes. Come in and listen, or press play below.
Our specialty since 1968
Before the radio and the jukebox, a nickel in the slot of a coin-operated piano filled a room with music. These machines — nickelodeons, orchestrions, and their cousins — are mechanical marvels of drums, pipes, bells, and pneumatics, and very few places still let you hear one play.
The Liberty Antique Mall has decades of experience buying, selling, and restoring antique music machines. Founder Harold Freiheit was known across central Ohio as "the duke of the antique music machines," and his son Chris carries on that expertise today.
Machines come and go, so the collection on the floor is always changing. Over the years it has included:
- Coin-operated nickelodeons with pipes, drums, and bells
- J.P. Seeburg and other player pianos
- Gavioli and Wurlitzer band organs
- Rare wood-horn Victrolas and other phonographs
- Dutch book-music accordions and street organs
- Jukeboxes from the golden age of the diner
Looking for a specific machine, or have one to sell? Call 614-885-5588 or send us a note. We buy, sell, and can point you to what you need.
Watch & listen
Hear them play
Recorded right here at the mall. For the full effect, come in and put a nickel in yourself.
The J.P. Seeburg player piano
A classic coin-operated Seeburg doing what it was built to do.
A nickelodeon with a horse race
Place your bets! This machine runs a miniature horse race while it plays.
More nickelodeon music
Another of the mall's machines, pipes and bells and all.
Selling a machine?
We buy music machines
Nickelodeons, player pianos, band organs, phonographs, jukeboxes — working or not. Tell us what you have and we'll get back to you.
Tell us about your machineSee them in person
Visit the mall
We're open Tuesday through Sunday in downtown Powell. Bring the family — kids love the horse race.
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