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"Orchestral" Rolls Found
By Leslie Hoffman

If the catalogue number of the roll begins with an "X" followed by
four numbers, or I have found some with three numbers, then it is
a Wilcox and White Angelus Orchestral roll.

The one I have is like a pianola roll.  (By the way, that word is
the Aeolian name for their players but has become a universal word
for push-up players and player pianos as well.)

The Wilcox and White Orchestral is a wonderful instrument because not
only does it play a piano, once pushed up to, but within the unit it
has organ reeds as well!  So, one can play it without a piano and it
becomes a player pump organ or you can play both the organ reeds and
piano together.  Mine only has one rank but I am told that there are
ones made with multiple ranks.

If you have no use for the rolls, please send them to Terry Smythe
to be scanned.

Leslie Hoffman


(Message sent Tue 24 Jul 2007, 12:44:44 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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