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Re: Deagan
By Matthew Caulfield

I have been fascinated by  the mysterious (to  me) Deagan company
but have never had  the opportunity Gloria Schack enjoyed to hear
an account of  the company by  one  of  its employees.  We always
seem to get interested in our history when it is too late.

I once heard a Deagan uniphone in  a Shriners' parade.  It was  a
small  but surprisingly loud  reiterating instrument, because  of
the resonator tubes below the bars, operated electrically from  a
keyboard.

My copy  of  the official Wurlitzer style 165  band organ tracker
scale  dated  9-29-21  and  redated 3-15-42  has  hole  3  marked
"uniphone bells" although  no Wurlitzer organ  is  known equipped
with   such  bells.   That   has   made   me   wonder   about   a
Wurlitzer-Deagan relationship.

So  many mysteries, so  few people who  know  the answers.  Sigh.

(Message sent 22 Feb 1996 12:24:12 EST , from time zone -0500.)

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