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Mystery Player Piano Also Plays a Pipe Organ
By Greg Filardo

Does anyone know what company made this unit that looks like a
Reproduco?  It has a Reproduco style keyboard in the middle above the
piano keyboard.  There are eight tablet stops to the left of the organ
keyboard that control three ranks of pipes, and six tablet stops to
the right.

There is no marking on the piano plate.  The player unit has a wreath
with a backwards P and forwards R (Pratt Reed player action?) and the
last patent is Dec. 15, 1925.

There are no pipes below the keyboard but instead there are electrical
relays and a swell shutter pedal that can be pulled out and placed
wherever the player desires.  Presumably all one would need is to wire
up an organ electromagnetic chest to this unit and you would have
a player pipe organ plus piano (the tracker bar is standard 88-note
format).

Greg Filardo


(Message sent Thu 17 Nov 2005, 18:28:43 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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