Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info
MMD > Archives > May 1997 > 1997.05.28 > 04Prev  Next


Source for Wurlitzer Parts
By Matthew Caulfield

The request in the last Digest for a source for a long-roll tracker frame
and a triangle for a Wurlitzer orchestrion leads me to throw out this
question to MMD readers:

All the original Wurlitzer band organ triangles I have seen are
distinctive in that one of the two open ends of a Wurlitzer triangle
is always drawn out to a blunt tapering point with a pronounced downward
bend.  Is this also characteristic of Wurlitzer orchestrion triangles
as well?  I would guess that it is.

Doyle Lane (802-235-2299) is the best source for original Wurlitzer
odds and ends, plus he has original sand-casting molds for spools and
the like.  I doubt he has what the inquirer wants, but a phone call to
Doyle might be worthwhile.

My impression is that roll frames on Wurlitzer instruments are fairly
interchangeable.  Seabreeze Park was lucky enough to pick up a dual-
tracker roll frame, complete with transfer chest and finger pneumatics,
from a collector who was converting a European band organ back to playing
book music that had once undergone a Wurlitzer factory conversion to
playing Wurlitzer's style 165 roll.  Miracles do happen.

Matthew Caulfield


(Message sent Wed 28 May 1997, 14:57:09 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  Parts, Source, Wurlitzer

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page