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Re: Adding Bells to Foot Pumper
By Stephen Kent Goodman

Dear Craig;

Thanks for the response to my question.  I in turn have a couple of questions:

   1) How is 25% vacuum loss arrived at?

   2) Wasn't the Ceclian a foot pumped piano player of 58 notes that
      operated both pnuematics that played the piano as well as
      contained a reed organ?

   3) Did the 58 note range of that push up compensate for the vacuum
      loss of having both a piano stack and reed organ, or did it not
      use a vaccum motor to turn the rolls?

As far as I know, the only standard American roll that was arranged for single strike xylo or bells was the Clark 4x roll (or Automatic 900 series).  I would imagine that with a tight atmosphere side valve seating and a tight pnuematic job, single strike would be the best and the most vacuum efficient way to go even for non-single stike rolls. Any further comments?

SKG


(Message sent Thu 28 Nov 1996, 17:36:47 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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