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Cremona Orchestrion with Piano Mute Knob
By Marty Roenigk

Does anyone out there have a Cremona coin piano catalog? I am trying to
identify a style which is not in Bowers' Encyclopedia.  It seems to be
somewhere between a "G" and a "K" on the outside, having two levels of
art glass above the keyboard.

The lower level has one large center piece of glass (mountains, lake,
swan?), the left lower glass has a steam train and the right lower
glass has what looks like part of a castle.  The upper level has two
pieces of glass with the left being a sun and the right having birds
and both having clouds.  Overall height, though, is only 70".

Instrumentation is just piano, mandolin and one rank of pipes, but the
knobs include a "Piano Mute" as with the "K".  It all looks very
original.  Can anyone identify this model or supply a Xerox of a
catalog page with it illustrated?

Also, might there be any rolls out there that have train themes?  I think
this piano, with its steam train glass and pipes would be neat in our
local tourist train station with train music on it!

Martin Roenigk
Eureka Springs, Arkansas

 [ Don Teach sent images of the pages of a Cremona catalog of unknown
 [ date.  Included are Style G (plays "A" rolls), Styles J and K that
 [ play special 88-note rolls, Style D (plays 88-note piano rolls).
 [ See http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/Cremona/index.html  -- Robbie


(Message sent Sat 1 May 2004, 13:05:11 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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