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Once filling music halls, bars and brothels across the Old West, music machines of many varieties provided entertainment to the era’s pioneers. Much like the jukeboxes of the later part of the century, music machines played the hit tunes at an affordable price. Today, thanks to the remarkable collection efforts of the Bovey family, the Nevada City Museum & Music Hall near Virginia City, Montana houses one of the largest publicly accessible collections of antique music machines in the world. Mich