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Banjorchestra at Knott's Berry Farm
By Stephen Kent Goodman

Don Teach wrote, "The original machine, minus some parts, was
at Knott's Berry Farm."

Back in 1968, when Barry Pearl was in charge of the musical repair
shop, I observed what could have been a Banjorchestra at one time.
It was playing an odd style roll that might have even been a
Banjorchestra style roll; the bass drum hole was tubed to a pneumatic
and beater that struck the piano sounding board as a minstrel man doll
jerked his whole body forward in an almost epileptic-like dance.

I couldn't find any remnants of a banjo or other percussion
instruments, so I thought this was a special unknown style built by
Peerless/Engelhardt although it was in the Banjorchestra case style F.

Evidently since then, it was discovered to have been a extant
Banjorchestra or another one was found in the Knott's warehouse.

Stephen Kent Goodman


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