All mills articles

  • Light Flowing
    Review

    Clare O’Connell: Light Flowing

    13 June 2025

    Riches aplenty in an album of commissions from an enterprising cellist

  • Violino_Virtuoso1
    Article

    The Mills Violano Virtuoso † a self-playing violin

    16 February 2015

    The self-playing Violano-Virtuoso was invented by the Mills Novelty Company † Chicago-based specialists in slot machines, vending machines and juke boxes † in the early 1900s when player pianos and mechanical coin-operated devices were extremely popular. Early models were called Automatic Virtuosa and later a piano mechanism was ...