[ Ref. Dale F. Rowe in 210720 MMDigest --

One little correction: all Coinolas used a mandolin attachment that
was a series of little plungers between the hammer shanks and the
strings. They would shift sideways when needed so that the hammer shank
would propel the plunger to the string, making the mandolin effect.
The instrument did not have the drop-curtain type of mandolin.

Some models with extra instrument had a muffler felt that would drop
between the hammers and the strings to mute the piano notes in the same
playing range of the extra instrument.

The Coinola Midget O recently mentioned was a late entry into the
cabinet pianos, showing up on my 1925 price list. It played a set of
bells in very early model with a 61-note piano back. The xylophone model
played the full piano with a larger piano of 66 notes.

Typically the early models had a lattice design on the top front board
and the [later] 66-note models did not. The late model played piano,
mandolin effect, single bass drum and cymbal, wood block, triangle,
tamborine, snare drum roll and single stroke with expression, with
a xylophone.

Amazingly, I have had three of these; they are very rare.

Don Teach
Shreveport, Louisiana