[CAUT] Storytone piano

[John Ross]

The Storytone, as I remember, was a Story and Clarke piano, that had 
contacts below the keys. They led to tone generators for an octave that you 
tuned the twelve notes in. (May have been 11) Then the out put of the TG's 
went to dividers for the other notes.
The keys activated the particular out put for the note.
It had a swell, knee pedal for volume and an octave of foot pedals.
So you could accompany yourself, organ and piano.
There was a muffler rail, if you wanted just organ. I think it was 50's 
vintage. It was tubes.  The speakers were in the piano.
They also had a kit, that you could add to any piano, it had a separate 
amplifier, speaker box, and a key contact strip for below the keys.
My Wife enjoyed playing the kit one we had, that I put in a Heintzman we 
had. But we got rid of them both in the late 70's.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Purdy" <purdy@ohio.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Storytone piano


> Is anyone familiar with the Story & Clark "Storytone" electric piano? 
> What I have been able to find so far is that they were made in the 30's. 
> It sounds like they are an acoustic piano with pick ups and external 
> speakers.  Earl Hines toured with one in the 30's and did some recordings. 
> I'm still researching this but wondered if any of you have seen one of 
> these.
>
> Chris
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