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Seeburg Celesta Tubing Diagram
By Bob Loesch

Robert Group wrote in 161021 MMDigest:

> I have two Seeburg Celestas (1927 and 1928 models) and they seem to be mostly there. I would like to know if anyone has a diagram or pictures of where the hoses go?

Interesting instrument!  The stops protruding from the front of the case above the keyboard where the fall-board should be, make me think that this was built as a photo-player -- a piano, with organ pipes, and a few pneumatically-operated drums, cymbals, etc.  I've never seen one of these instruments before, but I do know that Seeburg built photo-players, and even sold theatre organs, under contract with F. W.  Smith ("Seeburg-Smith Organ Co.").

I can't help with specifics on the tubing, but most instruments of this type were tubular-pneumatic, with either no relay, or a pneumatic relay, a la Reproduco.

Bob Loesch
Northern California, USA


(Message sent Tue 25 Oct 2016, 02:19:58 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Celesta, Diagram, Seeburg, Tubing

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