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Re: Changing the Tracker Bar
By Brian Thornton

In the most recent Digest, Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:51:27 +0000,  "Henden, Thomas"
     <Thomas.Henden@stud.hf.hioslo.no> wrote:

>
> I'm now restoring my Weber 192? player piano,.........
> Would there be adviceable (or even possible) to obtain a trackerbar
> that takes 65 note rolls too, and have it inserted, or will it ruin the
> autenticity of the piano?

A few years ago I bought 2 Weber Pianos made around 1912 that were in
very bad shape.  They both had 65 & 88 note slots on the trakerbar.
Pull  88 note chuck pulls out and flip the lever on the side of the
spoolbox from 88 to 65, and yer ready to Rock & Roll.   I already had a
very fancy Weber made in 1908 that only played 88 note rolls.  I found
that the spool boxes were, with very little modification,
interchangable.   I sold the other unit to:

   Paul Gottschalk
   208 South First St.
   Champaign, Ill 61820

   217-351-1099

As far as I know he hasn't done any thing with it.  Aeolean Made quite
a few of those combination tracker bar models,  If you really look
around, you might find one,

Brian



(Message sent Thu, 03 Oct 1996 10:40:16 -0400 , from time zone -0400.)

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