Barrel piano

[DGPEAKE@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/6/99 5:17:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, A440A@AOL.COM
writes:

<<  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........)
  >>

Dan Evans did a talk years ago.  He is in the PTG directery.

Dave Peake, RPT
Oregon City, OR
Portland Chapter