No, it uses steel teeth on a comb. Today Regina makes cheap vacuum cleaners. --- Tom Servinsky <tompiano@gate.net> wrote: > > Phil, > The music imprinted on the Regina disk looks like a > saucer used for sled > riding on snow. One disk contains one song. Very > similar in theory to a > pneumatic player roll..one roll for song and the > respective holes punched > out in the paper determine what notes are played. > The Regina disk has raised > chads which determine what note/s are played. > The Regina, and I'm not anything close to being > versed at the accurately > describing the mechanism, appears to use a series of > bells/ > chimes/glockenspiels for it's means to create music. > It's a very impressive > sound. Apparently these are extremely rare to find, > even more rare to find > one in good working order. > Tom Servinsky,RPT > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org > [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf > Of Phil Bondi > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 7:29 AM > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: "Dishes Of Music" > > > I admit..this is a new term for me. > > can someone 'splain to Da Rook what this means? > > Thanks, > > -Phil Bondi (Fl.) > tito@philbondi.com > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
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