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
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