In a message dated 96-11-24 04:02:23 EST, you write:

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> Subject: Electric pump motors and the Great Disney Conspiracy
>
> Hello all! I would like to inquire to all of those lucky persons who
> own a mechanical instrument with an electric motor to pump a large
> bellows to provide suction, or someone who knows how they work in terms
> of the motor's functions.  I'd like to build a large bellows with an
> electric pump for my '21 Beckwith player, instead of the gnappy little
> suction box in there now.

Building the wooden part of the pump is easy.  The hard part is getting
a gear standard and crank shaft.  You would either have to find someone
with extras for sale or have a machinist duplicate them.  Probably the
best way to go for an upright player is to get the Vestal Press
technical drawing of building a coinola rotary pump from Player Piano
Company, Wichita Kansas.  Speaking of gear standard and crank shaft
that could be adapted to a Wurlitzer upright Orchestrion please let me
know.

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>   I don't have an electric motor or anything and I was wondering if
> re-creating a setup like that is possible.  Also, I was reading the
> book "Drop another nickle in the Nickelodeon" which I enjoyed and
> throughout the book it showed pictures of Disney having posession of
> HUGE seemingly unrestored WurliTzer instrumentations.  What is
> happening there?

Disney at one time had both a Welte Cottage Orchestrion as well as a
Style 32 Concert PianOrchestra (WurliTzer) in their penny arcade in
California.  I understand the Style 32 was moved to Florida where it
was given the "Disney" restoration treatment ( like removing the female
heads from an old Engelhart cabinet machine and replacing them with
bear heads and wormwooding the cabinet so that it would fit in better
with the arcade in the Bear Country Exhibit, or whatever they call
it).  But hey, what do you expect from a company who tried to re-write
history with Pochontas among other crimes against the American family?

SKG