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Coin Piano in Movie "The Roaring Twenties"
By Dave Krall

In the 1939 Warner Bros. movie, "The Roaring Twenties," starring
Jimmy Cagney, there is a scene with gunfight in a restaurant with
a coin piano playing.  Very briefly you get to see the upper left
corner of the piano as it gets a bullet through one of its oval
vertical glass windows.  If you watch carefully you can see that
the piano is actually playing.

I've looked through the Bowers Encyclopedia but I didn't see any
coin pianos with that vertical oval glass.  Can anyone identify the
piano?

Attached is a screenshot from the movie.  You can see the scene
at time 1:19:24 here:  https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23fv92 

Dave Krall

P.S.: I am always looking for the 7" wide brass Telektra piano rolls.

 [ Roaring20sPiano3.jpg (109kb) bullet hole in piano front
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/20/02/21/200221_043910_Roaring20sPiano3.jpg 


(Message sent Wed 19 Feb 2020, 23:10:27 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Coin, Movie, Piano, Roaring, Twenties

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