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Combination Radio and Player Piano
By Robbie Rhodes

I saw a machine like this a few years ago in a player piano store in a suburb of Marietta, Georgia, or thereabouts. The "radio set" was housed in an extension of the upper piano case, and the separate loudspeaker (with electro-magnet) sat upon the lid of the piano.

The player may have had a version of the Recordo expression system, and it featured a spring-motor, kept wound by a linkage to the foot pedals. The shop owner proudly pointed out the "QRS Red Top" vacuum tubes in the radio! I'm sorry I don't remember the make of the radio; the player was a Melville Clark, I think.

-- Robbie Rhodes


(Message sent Tue 22 Aug 1995, 05:49:29 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Combination, Piano, Player, Radio

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