I'm certainly no Gulbransen expert, but to get the ball rolling I'll
mention that Gulbransen made some Recordo rolls as documented in Ginny
Billings' Recordo discography (where have I heard that name before? ;-)
which leads me to speculate that the fanciest automatically-played
Gulbransen piano was a Recordo, not an Ampico or Duo-Art or Welte (or
Artrio-Angelus or ... ).
I hope that helps. Does anyone out there have an actual Gulbransen
Recordo piano? Is that what they meant when they said Gulbransen
Registering Piano, or is that just a fancy name for some trademarked/
patented aspect of their everyday footpumper player piano?
Rob DeLand
deland_robert@macmail1.csg.mot.com
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