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Instrument Prices of 1976
By John McClure

I spent the morning going through papers stored 20+ years in my folks
basement.  I came across a 1976 catalog from American International
Galleries, Automatic Musical Instruments for sale, 76 pages to drool
over with pictures and prices.  It is the combination of sales from
the Hathaway, Bowers, Friberg and Tekstra collections.  I found the
following interesting for their seeming low prices compared to today:

  Chordephon Automatic Zither, 195.00
  Lots of upright disc boxes 1500-1900
  Hupfield model A Phonoliszt-Violina duplex  roll changer, 29,995
  Hupfield orchestrion art case 19,995
  Popper Roland , with automated peacock orchestrion 15,999
  Wurlitzer CX with wonder light 15,999

and the following that haven't changed that much:

  American Style 50 photoplayer 15,999
  paper roll organettes 600-800
  Marshall and Wendell B ampico 4,999
  Swiss cylinder music boxes 600-1200
  Mason and Hamlin Ampico B 19,500
  Steinway Duo-Art, 2 at 10,000

Just thought that might be interesting to others who use the
justification of investments when we need to rationalize a new toy.

Regards from Hot Humid Georgia,

John McClure


(Message sent Wed 28 Jul 1999, 19:57:48 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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