Re: Adding Bells to Foot Pumper
By Stephen Kent Goodman
Dear Craig;
Thanks for the response to my question. I in turn have a couple of questions:
1) How is 25% vacuum loss arrived at?
2) Wasn't the Ceclian a foot pumped piano player of 58 notes that
operated both pnuematics that played the piano as well as
contained a reed organ?
3) Did the 58 note range of that push up compensate for the vacuum
loss of having both a piano stack and reed organ, or did it not
use a vaccum motor to turn the rolls?
As far as I know, the only standard American roll that was arranged for single strike xylo or bells was the Clark 4x roll (or Automatic 900 series). I would imagine that with a tight atmosphere side valve seating and a tight pnuematic job, single strike would be the best and the most vacuum efficient way to go even for non-single stike rolls. Any further comments?
SKG
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