Richmond Grand mystery

[Tunrboy@aol.com]

Does this mean the player mechanism was held in place with the mounting
plates and played the piano from the top of the keys?

Now I know what you're talking about!  A Vorsitzen (sp?)!  Made and used
almost exclusively in Germany, it bolted to the underside of the keybed and
had a locking bar which rotated up over the keys, playing from above.  Easy
to add to ANY piano, but alas, we Americans like to watch the keys go down as
if played by mysterious, ghostly hands.

Eric Leatha
tunrboy@aol.com