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Seek Virtuola (Melodia) Rolls & 65-note Tracker Bar
By Frans van der Voorde

Hello All,  Does anyone have Virtuola/Melodia rolls for sale?
Virtuola was a "Poor Man's Reproduction System".  You can use both
the special Virtuola System tracker bar and a 88-note tracker bar.
Mine is a push-pedal operated one in a Richard Lipp piano from Leipzig.
Supposedly 65-note tracker bars also exist for it.

 [ Ref. "Melodia Expression Piano is Roemhildt Virtuola" at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200603/2006.03.10.02.html 

A long time ago -- before the age of the Internet -- I heard of a
Virtuola, that also had a 65-note tracker bar, being offered for sale
in Brussels but I never got hold of it.  I live in Holland.

As I am in the USA for a while and because the cost of shipping rolls
to the Netherlands is prohibitive, I now try my luck by asking if anyone
in the US does have Virtuola/Melodia Rolls for sale.  Anyone who has a
65-note tracker bar on offer would really make my day.

Thank You,
Frans van der Voorde
f.vandervoorde@upcmail.nl.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

 [ Françoise Dussour recently wrote to MMDigest about Virtuola rolls
 [ she found in France.  Write to her at <serinette@neuf.fr>
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Sun 16 May 2010, 07:33:13 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  65-note, Bar, Melodia, Rolls, Seek, Tracker, Virtuola

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