Playing Wurlitzer 165 Rolls on Residence Organ
By Gary Hoonsbeen
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I have a 13-rank unit pipe organ in my home and a roll player for
the Wurlitzer Style 165 music rolls. I need to know what pitch
(8', 4', 2' etc.) the various pipe [ranks] are for the corresponding
tracker bar holes.
My pipe organ if fully software controlled. I do not want to spend
time wiring the tracker bar to the organ until I know the proper
pitches for the various stops called for by action from the roll.
Can you help me or tell me where I can get this information?
Gary Hoonsbeen
Minneapolis, Minnesota
tel.: 1-763-533-4280
fax: 1-763-535-1421
[ Details of the Wurlitzer Style 165 music roll and how it
[ controls the divisions of the Style 165 band organ are presented
[ at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Tech/W165spec.html Perhaps Matthew
[ Caulfield can provide the octave pitch of the pipe ranks.
[
[ I met Gary in the mid-1970s when I was designing magnetic tape
[ recorders at Lockheed and Gary was peddling Nortonics tape recorder
[ heads. He was the first to tell me of Wayne Stahnke and the
[ electronic recording and reproducing piano system in testing at
[ Dick Carty's player shop. At that time Gary was pursuing antique
[ Fords; now he drives a 1909 REO and also is active with the Curved
[ Dash Oldsmobile Club. -- Robbie
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