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Wilcox & White "Pneuma Symphony" Player Organ
By Adam G. Ramet

In MMD 020213 Pat DeWitt asked about Wilcox and White organ rolls.
The ones he describes are not the standard 58-note widths ones.  They
sound like the rolls for the "Pneuma Symphony" player organ which was
the predecessor to the "Symphony".  I think the rolls are 44-note
rolls.

The instrument had a keyboard and was an equivalent market competitor
to the first 46-note Aeolian player organs.  These organs are very
scarce though there was a complete playing one with 80+ rolls that
turned up on eBay in Australia last year.  As to value of the rolls
I haven't a clue.

Adam Ramet
agr@lineone.net
http://website.lineone.net/~agr/index2.html


(Message sent Sun 17 Feb 2002, 10:16:40 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

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