10" "floppy"?? - OT

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi John,
old music player disc drives not the music box spool style? The ones that I
have seen are coin opperated.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "John R Fortiner" <pianoserv440@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: 10" "floppy"?? - OT


> Sorry to bother you, but I saw something today that I don't recognize and
> thought that somewhere in this list's enormous collective data bank would
> be the answer.
> Story:
> Tuned a player piano for a gal today.  She showed the roll cabinet that
> she had purchased along with the player.  It was absolutely stuffed with
> rolls.  The interesting thing is that she showed some thin metal discs to
> me - a little over 10" in diameter that had pieces punched out from one
> side so that the punched out sections stuck up on the other side somewhat
> like the prongs on a roller in a music box.  The only ID that I was able
> to get from them - other than the name of the music on the disc was
> "Symphonic",  brand name Schutz.  What are these things anyway - the
> first CD's for an ancient Mercedes with a primitive CD player??
>
> John R. Fortiner
> Billings, MT.
>
> PS.  She is willing to sell the set if anyone is interested.
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