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Seek Music Rolls for Tournaphone Organette
By Karl Ellison

Dear MMD,  The Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments, by
Q. David Bowers, 13th printing, page 769, shows a "Tournaphone",
a suction-operated reed paper-hole-as-the-valve crank instrument.

A customer of mine owns one and would like to find more rolls for
it.  Does anyone have suggestions of where to look, other than the
ubiquitous eBay auction, or who to ask?

I've enclosed a picture of a "Dulciphone" photo I took at a recent
music auction, a very similar instrument.  We're not even sure if
their scales are the same; for the Tournaphone it's: C D E F G A A# B
C C# D E F F# G G# A A# B C D E F G A.

Karl Ellison


(Message sent Sun 1 Oct 2000, 12:23:47 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Music, Organette, Rolls, Seek, Tournaphone

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