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Mills Violano Test Roll
By David Dewey

[ Ref. Tim Tomaselli  in 200323 MMDigest ]

Tim,  I don't own a Violano but I worked on one decades ago and knew
folks who have had them, so I think that test roll would be a great
candidate for replication!  Just a suggestion.

Violano rolls are sometimes, perhaps eventually always, "eaten" by the
player due to electrical arcing.  Hmm; I just thought, has anyone added
anti-flyback diodes to them to prevent or reduce the arcing, as is done
in pipe organs?

David Dewey

 [ Dick Hack sells copies of the Violano "Test Tuning and Demo" (TTD)
 [ roll; see the first entry at http://www.hackmusic.net/biography.html 
 [ -- Robbie



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