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'Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments'
By Hal Davis

> Has anybody else out there heard of this book?  Is it of
> any special significance or value?

In answer to Wayne Finger, the answer is yes.  I have the two volume
set which I bought new in 1967 or 1968 about the time that I bought
my first Violano.  By 1968 the prices in the "Guide" were obsolete
already.

I paid the sum of $850 for my first Violano Virtuoso but of course it
was still new in the crate.  It had been shipped to England where it
sat in a warehouse through the wars and then repurchased and brought
back to the USA before I bought it.

I once came into contact with a man in Detroit who had bought four
Violano's for $50 each right after WW2 and had a bunch of other
instruments that he had obtained either free or at very small cost.
It was a case of being in the right place at the right time, I suppose.

Hal Davis


(Message sent Thu 4 Jun 1998, 21:47:43 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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