•I am drawing up plans for a machine to play Style '4X' (and possibly 'G') music rolls and would like to know how many notes the xylophone should have. I'm guessing that it is somewhere between 24 and 36. I have looked at a lot of old pictures, but there seems to be no magic number. I want to get th...

•Dear Gordon, In regards to the number of xylophone bars in a Seeburg orchestrion, the answer is '22'. This includes also their largest commercially produced instrument the Style 'H'. The nomenclature of '4X' was derived from the Nelson-Wiggen Style '4X' orchestrion (also with a 22-note xylophone). ...

•One slight correction about Nelson-Wiggen xylophones. In the Nelson-Wiggen coin pianos I have seen, some had a marimba [xylophone] with 20 notes in the 5X, and some had 28 notes, but never 22 notes. All the 4X models seem to have 28 notes, with xylophones made by different companies -- not all are ...

•Hi Group, I have a Nelson-Wiggen Style 4X. It has a total of 28 xylophone bars. The xylophone scale is E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G The manufacturer appears to be the Kohler-Liebich Co., Chicago. Jack M. Conway

•Thank you to all who responded. I am going with the 28-note range. As a child, I was awestruck by a Nelson-Wiggen 4X piano at the Buffalo Ranch in Oklahoma and I have always thought that they had the best sound; hope mine can measure up. I make my own xylophone and marimba bars. Gordon Ramsey Wichi...

•There have been questions regarding the use of iterating vs non-iterating Xylophones and Glockenspiels. Those instruments that have original equipment iterating Xylophones were designed to use rolls that could also be used to play another set of pipes thus the difference between that and the "4-X" ...

•There have been questions regarding the use of iterating vs. non-iterating Xylophones and Glockenspiels. Those instruments that have original equipment iterating Xylophones were designed to use rolls that could also be used to play another set of pipes thus the difference between that and the "4-X"...

•Let me apologize for a mental lapse. I should know that the "O" roll will accommodate a single stroke xylophone as that is what my own Midget Orchestra has. I believe the Seeburg Style "H" may also accommodate a single stroke instrument but I'm not really very familiar with that model. I've heard t...

•This discussion has started me thinking about a project that I used to joke about, perhaps it is time that I actually build it. I have a 4 octave marimba off a Wurlitzer theatre organ. The action is shot, and it was water damaged, but the musical part of the instrument is in fine shape. So I have b...

•The discussion about xylophones is interesting. I thought I'd add the fact that some instruments, notably the Nelson-Wiggen, has a xylophone pitched an octave lower than the standard one, and is very mellow and longer-toned than the usual ones. It is called a marimba xylophone, by the way. Those wh...

•I have a customer with a Smith & Barnes piano. She wants it converted to a nickelodeon that would play a wood xylophone and perhaps other instruments. Does anyone have experience with a good source of xylophone and components to make the piano into a coin-operated nickelodeon? Carl Kehret ...

•Since there was so much interest in the construction of xylophone bars, I though I would mention that I have a set of Rosewood xylophone bars (used) and a set of Deagan Aluminum Glock bars (unused) that I can sell. The xylophone is a large scale type from a theater organ. Just the bars. Additional ...

•A few years ago my younger son cut down a mulberry tree that was beginning to be a threat to cars parked in my driveway due to it being vertically challenged. After one of the three trunks finally did collapse harmlessly I decided to have it taken out before it fell onto my car. What to do with abo...

•Seeburg balls came in two sizes and were made of rosewood. Don Teach

•Before this thread gets too cold, I thought I'd post some examples of Clark Xylophone A-rolls, right from the horse's mouth: an authentic Clark Roll catalog from June of 1928 that I own. In it you will see many titles of Clark Xylophone A-roll arrangements, designed to really pep-up a single-stroke...

•I am rebuilding a player that was once converted to be a nickelodeon. Since there is not enough of the original player to convert it back to a regular player so I have decided to redo it as a nickelodeon. It uses the "A" style rolls. I would like to add a xylophone as an extra instrument. Some ques...

•In reply to Ray Finch's questions regarding adding a xylophone to a player piano, I'd like to offer the following suggestions. My first suggestion is to acquire the xylophone and find out what notes it has before you do anything else. It is much easier to make the piano conform to the xylophone tha...

•I think the answer for adding a xylophone to a piano was answered well. I personally do not care for the reiterating xylophone and prefer the single stroke xylophone on A rolls. Most of the A rolls play just fine with a single stroke xylophone. The number of notes on original instruments was incons...

•Howdy Folks. Can anyone tell me if the later Seeburg "K" xylophone bars were made by Deagan? Were they stamped anywhere on the bars? I have seen other Deagan xylophones and they were always well marked. I am restoring a "K" and my bars appear to be newer than the rest of the instrument in that they...

•I need to find a complete xylophone for a Seeburg KT, as well as various other percussion instruments. My email is , and my phone number is 1-800-357-6044. Thank you very much. Steve Westfahl