I always called them 'air' motors, don't think I gave any thought to what the proper name was. John Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia On 2010-09-27, at 7:24 PM, Alan Forsyth wrote: > Except there is no wind in a wind motor; it's a vacuum. It Sucks! > > To avoid confusion call it the roll motor. > > AF > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Rhea, Jr. > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 6:02 PM > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Wind motor in player piano > > It depends on whether 'wind' is a noun or a verb. The verb would be a long > 'i' as in "WIND the clock". The noun would be a short 'i' as in "a strong > northern WIND". I would suspect that your usage would be the noun since > moving air is used to actuate the player mechanism and the motor would be > used to create the air flow. > > Tom Rhea, Jr. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100927/8815bf55/attachment.htm>
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