Hello all and Merry Christmas,  In 1986 I bought an Orchestrelle from
Doyle Lane.  It had been converted to play 88-note rolls.  A brass
tracker bar had been fitted in the spoolbox and new chucks and a
take-up spool were installed.  The blowing apparatus had, too, been
removed.

To this day I wish I could do bodily harm to this idiot.  It took me
years to restore the Orchestrelle to original condition.  *Please,
please, please,* do not subject someone to this!

Berley Firmin

P.S.:  I don't believe it was Doyle Lane who had done this, but he
doesn't remember the organ when I contacted him last summer about its
provenance.