In response to Robert Stewart and his request for bell installation
information on his Wurlitzer 146-A.  Robert, I have an early 146-A
that had a set of replica bells nicely installed long, long ago.
I will take some photos this weekend and send them to you and the MMD.
It would be great if someone with a 146-B would take some photos of
a factory installation to compare.

If you need to know which holes to drill to modify your stack for the
bell notes, let me know and I will photograph and try to document how
that was done on my organ. I have the stack out for a rebuild right
now.  This may or may not be the information you seek.  I believe my
organ is an early one is because the stack is the type with internal
valves as opposed to the ones with the more common Wurlitzer valve
block stack.

It would help if you are sure which tracker bar holes go to which stack
holes and which note each stack hole plays.  I'll compare that with my
organ. I would bet that all 146's are probably the same internally
regardless of which stack or roll frame was installed but I have never
seen any info to confirm this. You probably don't want to go drilling
and then find out the wrong notes were tapped because Wurlitzer made
a minor design change sometime in the 1920's.

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of technical information out there
on the 146's.  Maybe we can start to change that.

Norman Narmore
Atlanta, Georgia