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Wurlitzer Style R Residence Organ Tracker Bar
By Julie Porter

[ Russ Doer wrote to Julie:


>> Hi Julie,  Before you chop up that tracker bar, you need to
>> recheck the spacing.  It should be about 10 per inch, same
>> as Pianino, Concert PianOrchestra, and Mandolin PianOrchestra.
>> Sorry to shoot you down.  -- Russ


Interesting.  I was making the judgement by eye.  You are correct.
The R165 tracker bar is made the same as my other Wurlitzer tracker
bars.  The scale stick does not line up, when compared to a Caliola.
'Mea Culpa' for me not checking.  So do you know more about this
type of rollframe?

Julie Porter

 [ MMDers Phil Underwood and Jim Crank provided descriptions of
 [ the music rolls for "Wurlitzer R residence organ", "Wurlitzer
 [ RJ residence organ" and "Wurlitzer RS & Concert Organ".  See
 [ http://mmd.foxtail.com/MMMedia/identifying.html  -- Robbie


(Message sent Thu 14 Oct 2004, 22:14:22 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Bar, Organ, R, Residence, Style, Tracker, Wurlitzer

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