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TUCSON - Did you know some of the oldest self-playing instruments ever created are right here at a Tucson man's home?

He has refurbished collection of antique self playing music boxes and we got to take a look and listen, meet Jim Lowell.

He says his love for these rare musical players started when he was in his twenties, that's when he bought and restored his first player piano.

Lowell said, "I liked it so much that I did another one, and another one, and another one."

Now his home is full of music making history and he says thirty five to forty of these remarkable instruments take up much needed space.

Lowell said, "Our house now has everything in it practically that can fit."

He has a player violin from the year 1918 and is controlled by a modern windows laptop.

Lowell said, "This computer is set wirelessly so it will play through the original electronic stuff."

It's all original and all spruced up, its good old fashioned music for today's ear, Jim says, that's what it's all about.

Lowell said, "When you take something that hasn't played for close to a hundred years and you work on it for a month or two and it comes back to life, so that's pretty spectacular."

Jim says eventually his collection of instruments will go up for sale.