Does this mean the player mechanism was held in place with the mounting plates and played the piano from the top of the keys? Now I know what you're talking about! A Vorsitzen (sp?)! Made and used almost exclusively in Germany, it bolted to the underside of the keybed and had a locking bar which rotated up over the keys, playing from above. Easy to add to ANY piano, but alas, we Americans like to watch the keys go down as if played by mysterious, ghostly hands. Eric Leatha tunrboy@aol.com
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