Sunday morning, at "The German Corner" in Koblenz, Germany, I had
a brief look at an interesting small organ.  The grinder appeared
to be a German pensioner (retiree) out for a day of busking.

At first I thought it might be a factory built 20er organ with
both a tracker bar and a Pell Harmonet style electric card system.
I suspected it was an early-ish Hofbauer.  He was playing from the
MIDI system, but he happily showed me the tracker bar.

I showed him my "business card" with the picture of my John Smith
Senior 20.  Other than that, between my German and his English we
did not communicate much.  I had to run off to catch the ship.

Later I said to myself, "Wait a minute!"  The organ had square wooden
pipes across the front, while Hofbauer organs typically have round
brass pipes in the Berlin style.  It had a wooden tracker bar with
a roller.  Wood fits with Hofbauer, but they used a pressure box on
the ones I have seen.  I could not see a name plate, but it sure
looked like a factory product, not a home-built one.

My look was a quick one, but I'm sure it had:

1. A wooden tracker bar for paper rolls of about 110 mm width, with
at least 20 holes, but possibly more, i.e. 22 or 26 holes.

2. A metal roller to hold the rolls down.

3. An electronic system with a very professional looking face-plate
and a number display.  I think the face-plate was about 16 inches by
4 inches.  It was almost certainly a proprietary system of some sort.

4. A card with song titles and numbers.  The set he was playing had
about 10 to 15 tunes with numbers in the 900-999 range.

5. Wooden pipes on the front, and sort of a Raffin-like front and case.

Can anyone provide an I.D.?

Wallace Venable - river cruising in Germany

 [ Deutsches Eck ("German Corner") is the name of a headland
 [ in Koblenz where the Moselle joins the Rhine.  More at
 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Eck  -- Robbie