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Confusion? Ragola and Ragtime
By Stan Rhine

There may have been a little confusion in one of the recent communications which referred to "Ragola." Ragola is the old name for the Antique Nickelodeon Company (Barry Casper) in Las Vegas, Nevada. They custom build stacks & a line of standard orchestrion components (intended for O roll, but usable for other formats) of kiln dried hardrock maple & poplar. They also have complete O roll kits.

Ragtime Automated Music of Modesto, California (Ken Caulkins) offers everything from individual components to complete kits. This line features plastic unit pneumatics & relies heavily on their own die making operations to create a myriad of plastic parts. They also offer a range of instruments from orchestrions to "calliopes" & "band organs" all playing from O rolls.

Stan Rhine, Albuquerque, NM


(Message sent Thu 14 Nov 1996, 18:10:09 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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