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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The tubes are available. They are in fact fairly =
common.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><A
href="http://www.tubesandmore.com/">http://www.tubesandmore.com/</A></F=
ONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>also go to for more info and links <A
href="http://www.mitatechs.com/textonly.html">http://www.mitatechs.com/=
textonly.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I bought a Lowrey unit one time and installed it =
in a
piano, I had.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>My wife really enjoyed it, it had a swell pedal =
worked by
the knee, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and footpedals for one octave. She really =
enjoyed the
combination sound.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>It was an Orcana, made by Lowrey.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A
href="mailto:piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca">piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca</A>=
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Wimblees@AOL.COM =
href="mailto:Wimblees@AOL.COM">Wimblees@AOL.COM</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 13, 2001 =
9:40
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: =
Piano-Organ..</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a =
message dated
8/13/01 6:54:21 AM Central Daylight Time, <BR><A
href="mailto:tito@PhilBondi.com">tito@PhilBondi.com</A> writes: =
<BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">A friend has shown me something I have never seen nor =
heard
of..A Piano that <BR>is also an organ..made by Jannsen..it's a full =
88 note
piano with organ <BR>stops and the electronics are secured to the =
fallboard.
<BR><BR>I wish I could have heard it, but I think that may be a good =
<BR>improbablility..why? The piano is being 'stored' outside and it =
has to
go up <BR>2 flights of stairs..there's already evidence of rusted =
wire and
keys that <BR>go down and don't come back. =
<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I have
seen two of these things. The organ didn't work because the tubes are
<BR>blown. And they don't make tubes any more. <BR><BR>Back in the =
late 50's
or early 60's, when my dad first got started in the <BR>business, =
Thomas Organ
Co., I think in cooperation with the Starck Piano <BR>company, made a
piano/organ combination. The thing looked like a two manual <BR>organ, =
except
that the top manual was the organ, and the bottom was an 88 <BR>note =
piano.
The problem with the thing was tuning. The engineers who designed =
<BR>the
thing put the organ tubes and wires, etc., in the way of the tuning =
pins.
<BR>The only way to tune the piano was to remove the organ keyboard
completely. <BR>One had to almost be an organ technician to do that =
job.
Obviously the <BR>instrument was not a big success. <BR><BR>Wim
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