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Wooden Tracker Bar in Crank Melodica
By Wallace Venable

There are some quick looks at the construction details for a 37-note
wooden tracker bar in:

  Crank Melodica, House of the Rising Sun
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyghKG4cZik
Attachment thumbnail I would guess the spacing is the same as used by Raffin, but no numerical details are given. The tracker bar pictures start at about 1 min 15 seconds from the beginning and last about 10 seconds. There are a lot of interesting "flash" views of construction details in this video. The author, who calls himself FlpBusker on YouTube, has a total of 32 videos on line, nearly all of which appear to relate to small mechanical instruments. Wallace Venable [ See also http://www.youtube.com/user/FlpBusker The builder is MMDer [ Wagner Mello of Herndon, Virginia. His MMD articles are indexed at [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Authors/Aut4123.html and his busker [ organs are described at http://members.cox.net/wmbusker/Busker.shtml [ and http://members.cox.net/wmbusker/Uni26.shtml -- Robbie

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Key Words in Subject:  Bar, Crank, Melodica, Tracker, Wooden