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Unknown Weight-powered Barrel Piano
By Rod Cornelius

I am trying to identify this barrel instrument that is in the
collection of a museum in New Zealand.  My son is the exhibition
designer and they are trying to find more about this instrument
they have in their collection.  It has a number of barrels but no
identification or name on the instrument itself.

If anyone could tell me about it I will pass it on to the museum.

Rod Cornelius
Auckland, New Zealand

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Attachment thumbnail [ The three barrels play tunes for English or Scottish Country [ Dancing. I count 28 piano notes + 2 percussion = 30 keys on [ the barrel. Has the piano been tuned? I'd love to hear it! [ (I played in a Scottish Country Dance band fifty years ago.) [ -- Robbie

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Key Words in Subject:  Barrel, Piano, Unknown, Weight-powered