Unique Upright Jack

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Unique Upright Jack
> Date: Tuesday, June 03, 1997 7:58 PM
> 
> Richard (Moody) - do you still have contacts with orchestrion
> people?  

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A regular contributor, Craig Brougher has written a book about
orchestrions.  However I don't think the jack would be different, as
most were built from upright player pianos with organ pipes, and
percussion added with no modification to the piano action.  You just
have to take the whole thing apart to do any regulation. 

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>This kind of jack would have been
> useful in the close quarters of such an instrument - one wouldn't
have to
> regulate from the top of the action, one
> could work more at angles which did not require removing the rest
of the
> reproducing mechanism and associated
> instruments.
> 
> Hope someone else can be of more help.
> 
> Horace
> 
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