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Foot-pumped Seybold Player Accordion
By Roberto Vanelli

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Hi, I'm Roberto Vanelli Vega from Puebla, Mexico.  I write you to
learn if you can help me with information about a Seybold Acordeon
equipped with a roll mechanism.

Yesterday I finished the restoration, and this amazing accordion
plays music just like a pianola, but with rolls of thirty nine holes;
it's very small.  All the mechanism and the roll is operated by
a clockworks, then you play the air in the normal way of the accordion
and with a foot-pedal device.

This piece came from Alsace, France, carried over by the owners.

Thanks a lot,

Roberto Vanelli
Puebla, Mexico
betovanelli@hotmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

 [ The "Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments", by Q. David
 [ Bowers, has brief mentions of Seybold and Hohner.  On page 742:
 [ "Many different varieties of pneumatically-operated (by perforated
 [ paper rolls) accordions were produced by the German firms of Seybold
 [ (in Strassburg-Meinau) and Hohner (in Trossingen)."  On page 775:
 [ "Several varieties of foot-pumped roll-operated accordions were
 [ also made."
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Wed 9 Mar 2005, 18:54:20 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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