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Berry-Wood A.O.W. Tracker Bar Scale
By Scotty Greene

Some weeks back I asked for help getting the Berry Wood scale as we
were trying to get all the functions on the DeBence A.O.W. working.
Art Reblitz was kind enough to send me his best guess based on a roll
we sent him some years ago.  I thought the MMD audience might like to
know how it all worked out.  We have all the functions working now,
and the scale looks like this.

#1 is rewind,
2-5 are not used,
6-63 are the music scale, the rest are as follows:
64 R H Cymbal
65 has some relation to soft pedal
66 L H Castanet
67 Cancel Flute & Violin
68 Flute Pipes
69 Violin Pipes
70 Triangle
71 Marimba on
72 Marimba off
73 L H Bass Drum
74 Tambourine
75 not used
76 not used
77 Xylophone off
78 Xylophone on
79 L H Cymbal
80 R H Castanet
81 Sustain Pedal
82 Cancel soft & Sustain
83 Soft Pedal
84 snare drum
85 wood block & R H Bass Drum
86 not used
87 not used
88 not used
89 not used
90 not used

Scotty Greene - DeBence Antique Music World
Franklin, Pennsylvania

 [ MMDigest articles about Berry-Wood orchestrions are indexed at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/B/berry_wood.html  and at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200712/2007.12.28.03.html 
 [ is a first draft by Art Reblitz of the A.O.W. music roll scale.
 [ Many tracker scales and key frame layouts are included in "Treasures
 [ of Mechanical Music," copyright 1981 by Arthur A. Reblitz and
 [ Q. David Bowers, and also in the newer book, "The Golden Age of
 [ Automatic Musical Instruments," copyright 2001 by Arthur A. Reblitz,
 [ available at http://www.mechanicalmusicpress.com/rbook/scales.htm 
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Mon 21 Dec 2009, 15:55:33 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  A.O.W, Bar, Berry-Wood, Scale, Tracker

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