Extremely rare instrument once banned from NYC to make single-day return to Big Apple

Source: New York Post

It’s a homecoming 100 years in the making. The folky tunes of an extremely rare piano will once again sound in Manhattan Friday — nearly a century after Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia banned the instruments from the city streets. A 127-year-old barrel piano is making a visit to the Italian American Museum for a special historic presentation on what was once an instrument ubiquitous on Big Apple streets.