Barrel piano

[loupgaru]

Ed,
Barrel piano's are real junk.  Be careful.  The operators used to make
money by people paying them to stay off their corner with the things. 
They are impossible to tune or keep that way.  Just plain junk and not
worth much.  I collect mechanical musical instruments and wouldnt have
one.


Randy

A440A@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
>     I just saw something I would really like to have.  It is a crank-operated
> barrell piano. It is built on its own little cart, no keys, of course, but has
> bichords for about all of its 5 octaves, and dampers half way up.  It is
> painted up like something out of a gypsy fantasy, and is in poor condition.  I
> wasn't able to really get too much of a look, but there is a large barrel with
> stubs sticking out of it that trigger some kind of mechanism that throw
> hammers at the strings.
>     The barrell is about four feet long, about 1 foot in diameter.  They want
> $1,400 for the whole thing,  Anybody know anything about these animals?
> Thanks,
> Ed Foote
> (oh lawdy, lawdy, how her eyes rolled when I told her what I seen........)