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Seek Organ Clock Barrel Restoration
By Tony Marsico

Hi,  I am looking for someone to make and copy-pin a clock barrel.
The former owner had the clock organ restored inside with new pipes --
from what I hear, an expensive restoration as far as the organ goes --
but the original clock barrel itself has warped and cracked over the
years before this owner got it, allowing for long silences and many
missed notes as it plays.

The clock barrel is about 6 inches or so in diameter, made of individual
staves beveled on the edges to make the barrel, and it is as wide as,
well, a grandfather clock, which is to say it is maybe 15 inches across.
For anyone who replies to this, I will get exact measurements.  Could
there be someone overseas?

Thanks to those replying about the Ampico electric switch which I still
need.  I will send photographs to the one who requested them and try
just for my own information to fix the switch too.  (I'll get someone
else to plug it in! : )  But it would be nice to just pop in an original
from an old Ampico drawer.

Thanks,
Tony Marsico
Bayernhof Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
bayernhofjsl@verizon.net.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]


(Message sent Mon 21 Apr 2008, 11:59:30 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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