Tim Trager wrote:

> The other Seeburg appears to be a roll player cabinet for a theater
> instrument.  It has four roll mechanisms in a PGA cabinet. If you
> have seen these items in person, let us know about them!

I've never seen one of these, but it is probably for a residence
installation, rather than for a theatre, as the average small theatre
(the largest buyer of instruments of this type) would have no use for
a 4-roll player unit that wasn't rapidly accessible.

Also, Seeburg's involvement in the theatre business was rather small
and fairly short-lived.  They built a photo-player type instrument
(which would have had its own built-in player) under the Seeburg name,
and the Smith Organ Co. of Geneva IL built some unit theatre organs
under the Seeburg-Smith name, but the organs were all Smith, except
for the name.  I don't believe that any Seeburg-Smiths had a roll
player.

The Seeburg-Smith association was dissolved when Smith's quality didn't
measure up to Seeburg's expectations.  Of course, I could be all wet!
Anybody else out there with any ideas?

Regards,

Bob Loesch
http://www.jps.net/rrloesch