available player piano advice.

[gordon stelter]

I think the Red ( or was it Green ? ) Welte system
used all 88 notes.

     Thump


--- "D.L. Bullock" <dlbullock@att.net> wrote:

>   I have never found a Gulbransen player that had
> less than 88 notes.  Since
> the 1960's, however, most of the smaller new style
> players all played only
> 80 notes leaving off 4 at each end...some of them
> fewer than that.  Of
> course, QRS piano rolls did not cut holes there
> either since the 60's.   The
> Reproducing pianos also did not play all 88 notes
> ever because there were
> expression holes needed there.  Duo Art only plays
> 80 notes and Ampico plays
> 83 if memory serves me.
> 
>   Many restoration people also whack off 4 notes on
> each end as well.  If
> your Gulbransen had been restored it is likely the
> tech removed those notes
> at that time.
> 
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>    -----Original Message-----
>   From: Alan Forsyth
> [mailto:alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk]
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:45 AM
>   To: Pianotech
>   Subject: available player piano advice.
> 
> 
>   Gordon Stelter wrote;
> 
>   "If there are 9 holes to the inch it is a full 88
> note system. ....."
> 
>   Except in the case of a Gulbransen where they
> decided that a few notes
> less could count as a full system. Stingy, miserable
> scrooges they were!
> 
>   AF
> 



		
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