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Re: Kalliope Disk Box
By Howard Wyman

At 08:07 PM 10/29/95 PST, you wrote:

> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 20:30:03 -0600
> From: Terry Smythe <Terry_Smythe@MBnet.MB.CA>
> To: rolls@foxtail.com
>
> Subject: Re: Kalliope Disk Box
>
> In a previous A-M Digest, Jack Kane sez:
>
> R >I looked up your Kalliope in the Bower's Encyclopedia and your
> R >particular Kalliope is described as either a model 60, 60G
> R >(G=glocken/bells), 61 or 62. What you have described as your machine
> R >and what is shown in the Bower's is model 60. I don't know about
> R >value of the box but regardless, it's probably a pretty nice box. I
> R >think that Barry Johnson in California may make repro discs for the
> R >box if you're interested.
>
> Interesting....... I own a Model 200 w/saucer bells, as
> illustrated on Bowers, page 110. It uses 64.5 cm. disks (28")
> and I was lucky enough to acquire 10 disks with it, all 10
> are very fine music. I wonder if anyone has an address and
> phone number for Barry Johnson (email by chance?). If he can
> make new disks for my machine, it would be real nice to be able
> to hear some new music after 12 years of listening to the same
> 10 disks.

Barry Johnson's address is:

       Barry Johnson Music Box Co.
       2423-F Old Middlefield Way
       Mountain View CA 94043

       Phone: 415-964-0685

I was just speaking to him at Orlando, but I don't know if he has an e-mail address. Wouldn't it be nice if we could reach anyone we wanted to by e-mail?

Howard Wyman
hwyman@digital.net

(Message sent Mon 30 Oct 1995, 14:51:42 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  Box, Disk, Kalliope

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