Barrel piano

[Jon Page]

Ed,
There area lot of people on the MMD (Mechanical Music Digest) who
know about these. Check out their homepage and follow some links and
search the archives.

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Regards,

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 08:08 PM 3/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings all, 
>    I just saw something I would really like to have.  It is a crank-operated
>barrell piano. It is built on its own little cart, no keys, of course, but
has
>bichords for about all of its 5 octaves, and dampers half way up.  It is
>painted up like something out of a gypsy fantasy, and is in poor
condition.  I
>wasn't able to really get too much of a look, but there is a large barrel
with
>stubs sticking out of it that trigger some kind of mechanism that throw
>hammers at the strings.  
>    The barrell is about four feet long, about 1 foot in diameter.  They want
>$1,400 for the whole thing,  Anybody know anything about these animals? 
>Thanks, 
>Ed Foote
>(oh lawdy, lawdy, how her eyes rolled when I told her what I seen........)
>