Can You Guess What This Is?

[Steve83]

McGovern, Cooltech and Toytender, way to go! It's the mechanical action inside a nearly 200 year-old pipe organ. Amazing technology! Some of the things I love most - music, mechanics, physics and art all come together in a pipe organ. Someday, I'll make it out to Atlantic City to see the monster at the Convention Hall with its 64 foot-long pipes. Hmmm - I wonder if they'd let me play it???

Atlantic City Organ

• Steve83
• Mar 22, 2013

Anyone have any unusual pics for us to guess what they are?

 

[joedrum]

gee what masters there use to be ...now we have china and the worthless leadership of lazy slobs on the take

 

[Ansimp]

Lets see how quickly the old timers get this one!

 

[dan filipi]

Damn, it looks very familiar but I can't place it

 

[slabghost]

Pressure selector on old manual typewriter.

 

[Steve83]

I'm also thinking old typewriter, but I'm gonna go with line spacing adjuster.

I love old mechanical things!

 

[wilcoy02]

selector for an old music box--it plays the tunes on a tumbler :fiddle: :fiddle: :fiddle: :fiddle:

 

[toytender01]

Yah speed selector for an old record player., wait I am too young to know that! :smilie_happy:

 

[mwbill37841]

i go with the selecter for old victrola record paly er 78's

 

[backlander]

it's a helifino.

 

[cooltech]

Old type writer

 

[AApple]

Some sort of metronome device, prolly on an old phonograph....?

 

[Ansimp]

Hope this helps :yes:

 

[mcgovern61]

Player piano?

 

[Ansimp]

You are right Gerry!

 

[Steve83]

Oh man, I should've known that - I've repaired several of them long ago. Thanks for the memories! And what a beautiful old piano - I'd love to play some Scott Joplin on that!

 

[Ansimp]

We were lucky enough to buy it from a guy that was downsizing into a retirement village. His mother had taken 2 years to pay it off (1955-1957) so that he could learn to play the piano. We have some old clippings of it in one of Brisbane's old historic houses in about 1927. We found a guy that still refurbished pianolas and had been doing it for about 50 years so it is back pumping out a tune the way it was designed to. The kids still ask where does the CD go?

 

[Steve83]

That is awesome! Do you have many music rolls for it?

 

[Ansimp]

Around 200 I think, it came with about 150 and we have bought quite a few new ones.

 

[slabghost]

What a fine treasure you have. Not at all jealous but I do envy your good fortune.