Don Teach wrote, "The original machine, minus some parts, was
at Knott's Berry Farm."
Back in 1968, when Barry Pearl was in charge of the musical repair
shop, I observed what could have been a Banjorchestra at one time.
It was playing an odd style roll that might have even been a
Banjorchestra style roll; the bass drum hole was tubed to a pneumatic
and beater that struck the piano sounding board as a minstrel man doll
jerked his whole body forward in an almost epileptic-like dance.
I couldn't find any remnants of a banjo or other percussion
instruments, so I thought this was a special unknown style built by
Peerless/Engelhardt although it was in the Banjorchestra case style F.
Evidently since then, it was discovered to have been a extant
Banjorchestra or another one was found in the Knott's warehouse.
Stephen Kent Goodman
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