Reproducing Rolls on Pumpers
By Howard Wyman
Just a note about playing reproducing rolls on pumpers. In the past I have taped over the bottom two and top three holes on the tracker bar to play Ampico rolls, but this summer when I was in London I observed a technique that seems to work and you don't have to worry about adhesive from tape gumming up your tracker bar. If you tape a small piece of thin plastic similar to that used for garbage bags on the flat area above the tracker bar it can be flipped down to cover the holes when needed for playing a reproducing roll. When the roll is traveling forward the motion of the paper keeps the plastic held over the holes. On reroll I suppose the plastic gets dragged up out of the way. Then when you want to play a standard 88-note roll, you just flip the plastic up out of the way. In one instance, I noticed that the operator had a box containing a mixture of 88-note rolls and reproducing rolls and he could easily switch back and forth just by flipping the plastic down over the holes or up onto the flat area above the tracker bar.
Howard Wyman
hwyman@digital.net |
(Message sent Wed 13 Dec 1995, 03:26:01 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.) |
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