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Playing Wurlitzer 165 Rolls on Residence Organ
By Gary Hoonsbeen

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I have a 13-rank unit pipe organ in my home and a roll player for
the Wurlitzer Style 165 music rolls.  I need to know what pitch
(8', 4', 2' etc.) the various pipe [ranks] are for the corresponding
tracker bar holes.

My pipe organ if fully software controlled.  I do not want to spend
time wiring the tracker bar to the organ until I know the proper
pitches for the various stops called for by action from the roll.

Can you help me or tell me where I can get this information?

Gary Hoonsbeen
Minneapolis, Minnesota
tel.: 1-763-533-4280
fax:  1-763-535-1421

 [ Details of the Wurlitzer Style 165 music roll and how it
 [ controls the divisions of the Style 165 band organ are presented
 [ at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Tech/W165spec.html  Perhaps Matthew
 [ Caulfield can provide the octave pitch of the pipe ranks.
 [
 [ I met Gary in the mid-1970s when I was designing magnetic tape
 [ recorders at Lockheed and Gary was peddling Nortonics tape recorder
 [ heads.  He was the first to tell me of Wayne Stahnke and the
 [ electronic recording and reproducing piano system in testing at
 [ Dick Carty's player shop.  At that time Gary was pursuing antique
 [ Fords; now he drives a 1909 REO and also is active with the Curved
 [ Dash Oldsmobile Club.  -- Robbie


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