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Kuhl & Klatt (Pneuma) Tracker Bar Scale
By Tom Jansen

I was asked for the trackerbar layout of the Kuhl & Klatt pianos.  The
music rolls, made by Bacigalupo´s "Exelsior Notenrollenfabrik" in Berlin,
bear the trademark "Pneuma" and are cut with square holes.  A picture
of the spool ends is at http://www.maesto.com/US/kuhl-klattus.html

Kuhl & Klatt instruments are quite underestimated, but if restored
properly they produce fantastic music.  Almost nobody knows that Gustav
Bruder(!) made several arrangements for Kuhl & Klatt.  Most of the
pianos are equipped with a reiterating pneumatically operated mandolin.
Some have a xylophone in the top.  They have a wooden tracker bar.

Kuhl & Klatt roll (Pneuma)
  Width of paper:  340 mm [13-3/8 inch]
  Number of tracks: Standard is 68, sometimes only 67 (missing no. 1)
  Diameter of holes: 2.2 mm (Square punchings) [

- 1 empty
- 2 Motor off
- 3 Mandolin off
- 4 Sustain (loud) Pedal
- 5 Xylophone on

- 6 C#  1. playing note
- 7 D
- 8 D#
- 9 E
-10 F ... and so on...
-11 to
-64 playing notes

-65 Xylophone off
-66 Hammer rail
-67 Mandolin on
-68 Rewind

If anybody needs more information, please feel free to ask me.

Best regards,
Thomas Jansen
http://www.maesto.com/  Musikwerkstatt Monschau
http://www.musikmuseum.de/  Musikmuseums Monschau

 [ MMDigest articles about Pneuma and Kuhl & Klatt are indexed at
 [   http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/P/pneuma.html  and
 [   http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/K/kuhl.html 
 [ A video of a Kuhl & Klatt mandoline piano is at
 [   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaTY7jTi5k 
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Tue 8 Dec 2009, 19:19:02 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

Key Words in Subject:  Bar, Klatt, Kuhl, Pneuma, Scale, Tracker

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