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New Book "Roller Organs" by Todd Augsburger
By Kevin McElhone

"Roller Organs: The Autophone Company's 'Ingenious Mechanism'"
   by Todd Augsburger

If you bought 'The Organette Book' last year and thought it was lacking
in detail about the most popular and widely encountered organette made
in U.S.A., the Gem and Concert Roller Organs, then this is the book for
you.  Research has continued in greater depth than could be accommodated
in 'The Organette Book' which would have been over 600 pages if this
amount of additional material had been included.

There are many close-up photographs, in monochrome in the book, but in
colour on the optional CD.  There is an in-depth explanation of detailed
points along with graphs showing cumulative production, price changes,
design changes and many original illustrations and adverts

There is a _full_ list of tunes produced for both 20 and 32 note sizes
in numerical and also Alphabetical sequence which is particularly useful
in helping to identify cobs with partial labels.

Book contents include:

  Introduction, What Is a Roller Organ?, Company History, Background,
The Autophone Years, "Ingenious Mechanism", A Single Focus, Expansion
and Growth, The End of an Era, Postscript,

  Advertising, Autophone Advertising, Pre-1900 Roller Organ Advertising,
1900s Roller Organ Advertising, Roller Organ Gallery, Pressure Models,
Vacuum Models, Shipping and Crating,

  Modifications and the Unusual, Design Evolution, Dating and External
Identification, Air Supply Variations, Economy, Efficiency, Tuning and
Temperament, Rollers Rollers and Tunes, Titles and Labels, Maintenance
and Repair, Valves and Adjustment, Case Disassembly, Bellows Repair,
Collecting,

  Roller Titles (numerical order), Roller Titles (alphabetical order),
Patent Documents, Mechanism Detail, References, Index

I have enjoyed reading this book and finding out even more about this
popular range of instruments.

Author & U.S.A. seller:-
Todd Augsburger
  http://www.rollerorgans.com/

For further information or orders contact European Agent:-
  Kevin McElhone
  tel.: 01536 523988
  kevinmcelhone@supanet.com (new email address).

Kevin McElhone - Archivist, Musical Box Society G.B.


(Message sent Sat 3 May 2003, 20:08:08 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

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