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Lösche "Swanee Whistle" Orchestrion
By Robbie Rhodes

At http://www.mmdigest.com/Pictures/loesche1.html is a photo and
a short description by Tim Trager of an orchestrion with a slide
whistle built by the Paul Lösche Orchestionwerke of Leipzig.  Tim
writes, "Like the Popper, when turned on by a perforation the slide
whistle follows the highest note on the roll, which is usually
a melody-line note."

The pneumatic logic unit that selects the top note of the melody
is visible at the upper left in the photo.

Robbie Rhodes
Etiwanda, Calif.


(Message sent Fri 10 Feb 2012, 22:59:21 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Lösche, Orchestrion, Swanee, Whistle

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