This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi, The tubes are available. They are in fact fairly common. http://www.tubesandmore.com/ also go to for more info and links = http://www.mitatechs.com/textonly.html I bought a Lowrey unit one time and installed it in a piano, I had. My wife really enjoyed it, it had a swell pedal worked by the knee,=20 and footpedals for one octave. She really enjoyed the combination sound. It was an Orcana, made by Lowrey. Regards, John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Piano-Organ.. In a message dated 8/13/01 6:54:21 AM Central Daylight Time,=20 tito@PhilBondi.com writes:=20 A friend has shown me something I have never seen nor heard of..A = Piano that=20 is also an organ..made by Jannsen..it's a full 88 note piano with = organ=20 stops and the electronics are secured to the fallboard.=20 I wish I could have heard it, but I think that may be a good=20 improbablility..why? The piano is being 'stored' outside and it has = to go up=20 2 flights of stairs..there's already evidence of rusted wire and = keys that=20 go down and don't come back.=20 I have seen two of these things. The organ didn't work because the = tubes are=20 blown. And they don't make tubes any more.=20 Back in the late 50's or early 60's, when my dad first got started in = the=20 business, Thomas Organ Co., I think in cooperation with the Starck = Piano=20 company, made a piano/organ combination. The thing looked like a two = manual=20 organ, except that the top manual was the organ, and the bottom was an = 88=20 note piano. The problem with the thing was tuning. The engineers who = designed=20 the thing put the organ tubes and wires, etc., in the way of the = tuning pins.=20 The only way to tune the piano was to remove the organ keyboard = completely.=20 One had to almost be an organ technician to do that job. Obviously the = instrument was not a big success.=20 Wim=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/60/53/b9/5c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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