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Music Roll Perforator From The Past
By Ed Gaida

Still cleaning out things from the last move, I found pictures of
a music roll perforator that was built before the days of electronics.
It is a one-to-one perforator designed to copy existing music rolls.
Details of operation are not available, however, note the maze of
rubber tubing, organ magnets and the ubiquitous Autotypist pump on the
floor under the motor platform.

With such a large flywheel, it must have taken a long time to punch
a roll, but I am told that it worked.  Several people I know have music
rolls made on this machine.  See the pictures here:
  http://www.edgaida.com/hmade1.html

Ed Gaida
18 blocks north of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas


(Message sent Sat 29 May 2004, 03:03:30 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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