Re: Electric Pump Motors; Disney Conspiracy
By Stephen Kent Goodman
In a message dated 96-11-24 04:02:23 EST, you write:
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> Subject: Electric pump motors and the Great Disney Conspiracy
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> Hello all! I would like to inquire to all of those lucky persons who
> own a mechanical instrument with an electric motor to pump a large
> bellows to provide suction, or someone who knows how they work in terms
> of the motor's functions. I'd like to build a large bellows with an
> electric pump for my '21 Beckwith player, instead of the gnappy little
> suction box in there now.
Building the wooden part of the pump is easy. The hard part is getting a gear standard and crank shaft. You would either have to find someone with extras for sale or have a machinist duplicate them. Probably the best way to go for an upright player is to get the Vestal Press technical drawing of building a coinola rotary pump from Player Piano Company, Wichita Kansas. Speaking of gear standard and crank shaft that could be adapted to a Wurlitzer upright Orchestrion please let me know.
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> I don't have an electric motor or anything and I was wondering if
> re-creating a setup like that is possible. Also, I was reading the
> book "Drop another nickle in the Nickelodeon" which I enjoyed and
> throughout the book it showed pictures of Disney having posession of
> HUGE seemingly unrestored WurliTzer instrumentations. What is
> happening there?
Disney at one time had both a Welte Cottage Orchestrion as well as a Style 32 Concert PianOrchestra (WurliTzer) in their penny arcade in California. I understand the Style 32 was moved to Florida where it was given the "Disney" restoration treatment ( like removing the female heads from an old Engelhart cabinet machine and replacing them with bear heads and wormwooding the cabinet so that it would fit in better with the arcade in the Bear Country Exhibit, or whatever they call it). But hey, what do you expect from a company who tried to re-write history with Pochontas among other crimes against the American family?
SKG
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