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........)
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