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Photoplayer Census
By Steve Grattan

Hi everyone,  I have a customer in Port Huron, Michigan that has
three photoplayers.  I currently am restoring a Wurlitzer Style O
and a Style YU.

The YU was missing its stack but had the valve plates and old valves.
I took the O stack which came in hundreds of pieces and copied it,
except I made an 88-note stack in the same style using the old valve
plates which were very good.  I will be testing that in the coming
weeks.

The other photoplayer is an American Style 40.  That one comes in for
restoration after the two Wurlitzers are done.

Steve Grattan - Lost Chord Clinic
Port Huron, Michigan

(Message sent Thu 15 Apr 2010, 20:29:14 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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