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Strange Storytone Piano
By Dan Armstrong

Greetings,  This is not a request regarding a player piano, but one out
of the annals of strange and innovative late 30's-early 40's modern.

I just acquired a 1939 Story & Clark Storytone, serial # 153152, voiced
by RCA Victor.  It has no soundboard; it's strung similar to a normal
spinet, with a harp and "floating" bridges with acoustic pickups for
the amplification system.  Originally, it had a bench with it which
incorporated a record player and radio made by RCA.  That part was
missing, it may have been sold as an end table or something; I don't
know.

If there is anyone that has any information on one of these things
I'd appreciate it.  I've seen a lot of different and strange pianos,
but this one takes the cake.

I'm planning on restoring it to original, possibly minus the tube-type
amplifiers.  They may be replaced with solid state since vacuum tubes
are difficult to come by.

Thanks,
Dan Armstrong
Pine River, MN


(Message sent Mon 2 Mar 1998, 17:38:54 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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