Player Pipe Organ
By Carl Dodrill
In response to Karl Ellison's question about getting information concerning player pipe organs, I have found that the best way to do this is to get on the information lines of regular pipe organs. We got out 1927 Aeolian Duo Art (2m9r) pipe organ through the classifieds in THE AMERICAN ORGANIST. Having read those adds for about 5 years, I would say on the average that there are 2 or 3 per year sold there. THE DIAPASON is a periodical which also lists them, again at the rate of a small number per year. I hope that you are a member of AMICA whose periodicals also occasionally list them. Finally, subscribe to PIPEORG-L, the list to which your message was also forwarded by your friend, Dick Berry. One was listed there for sale only last week. In general, the automatic musical instrument people list few of these; it is really in the pipe organ realm where you find them, and even then they are not common.
One additional thought is to be sure that whatever instrument you get has rolls available to play the music which you want played. Aeolian without a doubt had the broadest spectrum of music with the largest number of rolls. Moller may have had a finer player, but the rolls available are much more limited. Other players deserve individual attention to be sure that the rolls which are actually available will do what you want them to do.
Carl Dodrill
Phone (206) 731-4230 Fax (206) 731-4409
cdodrill@u.washington.edu
Regional Epilepsy Center (Box 359745)
Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Ave, Seattle WA 98104-2499 USA |
(Message sent Mon 25 Nov 1996, 18:05:03 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.) |
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