•I am working on a Seeburg "L" or Junior and am having some trouble with the roll drive. The pictures I have seen of Seeburg L's show the driven wheel about half way out the pump wheel, I would guess at least four inches from the center. If I put my driven wheel there the music seems much too fast. ...

•It always happens. You write that "so and so never did such a thing" and, sure enough, an example turns up. Some years ago I wrote that I had never seen an original Seeburg nickelodeon piano in a Cremona piano case. Now it turns out that a collector in Iowa (the state where I started working on nic...

•If I were in your shoes, I'd get a machine shop to set up for cutting one gear, then get three or four more done at the same time. The initial cost for setting up a cutter is the highest. Subsequent copies can then be sold to recoup the cost of the entire order. I know that gear, and it can wear qu...

•I have purchased gears for Seeburgs from Bob Lemon in California. He seemed to always have them made up. Jon Guy

•Good day, I am restoring a Seeburg Celesta Deluxe and am having problems with tubing. The previous owner made some drawings, some of which are correct and some not, and then he passed away. I received the instrument in pieces and have figured out most of the problems, except two or three. In corres...

•We will be starting a production run of Seeburg Violins soon. Early next year we will probably be making a batch of Seeburg Harmonic flutes. Inquiries are welcome. Recently we put up our own web-site: http://www.nolteorgans.com. Over the next few months we hope to include a lot more information on ...

•I am in the process of purchasing a 1920 Seeburg Style L. The case shows that there was once a pneumatic switch on the back side of the left front of the upper case. I can see in vintage Style L photos that there seems to be a knob with a label over it. The knob and label are missing on this Seebur...

•In response to Tom DeLay's query, the knob in question is "Soft-Loud." I have a 1920's vintage "L", and the tubing from the on/off control goes to a valve unit controlling stack vacuum. When the knob is in the "Loud" position, an assigned perforation on the "A" roll automatically lowers the stack v...

•I have an early mahogany two-door Seeburg "L" with barn/silo artglass, and grasshopper-style pump. It is in the best unrestored condition I have ever seen. I bought it seven or eight years ago from a beachfront Victorian-era hotel dining room in Cape May, N.J. Inside the Seeburg I found a "Sunday l...

•There are parts available for the Seeburg coin piano. Several dif- ferent people make parts. Mahogany pianos are often found in col- lections today. I have seen one walnut Seeburg E. The coin slot mechanism was available in 5-cent, 10-cent, 25-cent, and even 50-cent denominations. Don Teach ...

•This may have come up for discussion before, but how did Seeburg number their pianos? I have seen many over the last twenty years, and they range anywhere from 52000 through the one I saw this morning at a show. That was a KT Special, and it was very clean and complete. The serial number was 161597...

•In the early years, Seeburg used several different brands of pianos made by other companies, and in later years the firm made its own pianos, resulting in six different groups of serial numbers. You can find details at the Mechanical Music Press website. Please go to http://www.mechanicalmusicpress...

•I now have two KT's with problems in the starter part of the motors. These are Century motors. I will be taking the first one to the motor shop shortly. The problem seems to lie in the starter weights. Previ- ous motor men said thirty years ago that it could not be fixed. I want to know whether any...

•Most motor shops can deal with relatively modern motors but not antiques. The old starter switches were very well made, unlike the plastic types today. Motor shops can generally replace parts but do not machine or repair old ones. I have never met an old starter switch that I could not fix with a l...

•D.L. Bullock writes of a Seeburg motor starting problem. First let's talk about how a small single phase piano motor starts. In addition to the two pole (3600 rpm),four pole(1750 rpm), six pole (1100 rpm) run- ning windings in these old piano motors, there is also a special starting winding and a c...

•Does anyone know what is the correct motor pulley size on the Seeburg KT Special with the organ pipes? I have one I am working on and I am sure the pulley is not original. Thanks, Doug L. Bullock thepianoworld.com

•Hi, MMDers: For quite a while now I've had a 78 rpm record, Columbia 40592, of "Pete Kelly's Blues" as played on "Pete Kelly's Orchestrion", from the "Mark VII Limited Prod. of 'Pete Kelly's Blues,' A Warner Bros. Release." (The flip side is "I Never Knew.") Anyone who's ever seen the flick knows t...

•In regard to Mark Forer's inquiry about the Seeburg "G" orchestrion seen in the movie, "Pete Kelly's Blues", indeed the arrangement was made by J. Lawrence Cook. Columbia records also issued the same record on 45 rpm #4-40592. I have more detailed information about this than is necessary to take up...

•Happy July 4th to all those south of the 49th. Having just been fortunate enough to add a Seeburg "G" Orchestrion to my collection, the thread on "Pete Kelly's Blues" quickly got my attention. I knew I had a copy of that movie on VHS so dug it out for a fresh look. I got a real chuckle from the sig...

•Due to a back injury, I have been introduced to the ingenuity, engineering, and craftsmanship embodied in instruments like the Seeburg H. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to touch and work on those old mechanical marvels. Thankfully there is a group like this to fall back on, when stymied. Hopefull...