List and Chris, OK, Now I remember these things. Yes I've serviced 2 or 3 of them. Interesting little beasties. I have no idea if there is any special value to them however. Seemed like a fun little idea for it's day. Greg Newell At 04:01 PM 5/4/2005, you wrote: >The Storytone, as I remember, was a Story and Clarke piano, that had >contacts below the keys. They led to tone generators for an octave that >you tuned the twelve notes in. (May have been 11) Then the out put of the >TG's went to dividers for the other notes. >The keys activated the particular out put for the note. >It had a swell, knee pedal for volume and an octave of foot pedals. >So you could accompany yourself, organ and piano. >There was a muffler rail, if you wanted just organ. I think it was 50's >vintage. It was tubes. The speakers were in the piano. >They also had a kit, that you could add to any piano, it had a separate >amplifier, speaker box, and a key contact strip for below the keys. >My Wife enjoyed playing the kit one we had, that I put in a Heintzman we >had. But we got rid of them both in the late 70's. >John M. Ross >Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada >jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca >----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Purdy" <purdy@ohio.edu> >To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> >Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:56 AM >Subject: [CAUT] Storytone piano > > >>Is anyone familiar with the Story & Clark "Storytone" electric piano? >>What I have been able to find so far is that they were made in the 30's. >>It sounds like they are an acoustic piano with pick ups and external >>speakers. Earl Hines toured with one in the 30's and did some >>recordings. I'm still researching this but wondered if any of you have >>seen one of these. >> >>Chris >>_______________________________________________ >>caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Greg Newell Greg's piano Forté mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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