When I got my Bijou about 40 years ago it did not play; someone had
taken it apart. I worked on it and made a new gasket between the
valves and reeds. It has been 30 years and so I just do not remember
everything but it still played too many notes.
After five years I was just about to give up on the Bijou. I tried one
last thing and took off one side of the wood where the roll goes over
the 20 note holes. I found out the wood had cracked between 5 of the
note channels and that is why it played more notes at times. I repaired
the channels and replaced the 1/16" wood and the Bijou was now playing.
After seeing Owen Christiansen's question about the Bijou I started
looking at the web and found the "Organette Music Repository" web site
where I found the tuning scales that I have listed below.
http://www.organettes.com/
I then looked at my Bijou and found every other note was the same down
to the 10th note and it reversed back up the rest of the notes.
I hope this makes sense and I have listed below the way my reeds are in
my Bijou. I do not know if my Bijou is right but I have enjoyed the way
it plays for last 30 years.
Ref. http://www.organettes.com/scales/home
On the "Organette Music Repository" web site "Tuning Scales"
page it has the reeds arranged:
G#,C#,D#,F#,G#,A#,C,C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G,G#,A#C,C#,D#,F
On my Bijou the keys are arranged:
G#,D#,G#,C,D,E,F#,G#,C,D#,F,C#,A#,G,F,D#,C#,A#,F#,C#
I do not know if my Bijou is right but I have enjoyed the way it plays
for the past 30 years.
Carl Wright
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