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Wilcox & White Angelus Player
By Roger Waring

It was interesting to read Julian Dyer's submission about the Angelus.
I was recently in the English Lake District visiting an hotel in
Grasmere that had a "non-working" one.  The owner had telephoned me
just before I left for Keswick Jazz Festival so I called in on my way.
It was exactly as Julian described.

Everything was the opposite way round.  It looked pretty old: 65-notes,
I would guess at circa 1915.  It was in amazingly good order consider-
ing that all of the cloths looked original.  The problem was simply due
to a pin-end roll having become jammed in the spoolbox during an
attempt to remove it.

The right-hand flange plate had been wrenched off the spoolbox side.
I simply took it apart, got the roll out, turned the plate through 45
degrees, and put nice new brass screws in.  All was then fine, but I
now wonder if in fact this was an early model not suited to pin-end
rolls?

Anyway, if anyone is interested in purchasing it, please contact me,
as the owner would probably sell.

Roger Waring
Solihull
UK


(Message sent Sat 25 Jul 1998, 00:43:15 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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