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What a marvelous instrument! Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻

That's where I started in my career in data processing. I got to be very fast. It was possible for really good key punchers to go too fast for the 026. It just didn't always feed fast enough or to skip and auto-duplicate long fields. As I was very accurate I never got much chance to work on the 056 verifier. Later on, when I was transferred, we had 029/059 punches and verifiers. Much faster and so much quieter.

The first sorter I worked with was the 084 - 2000 cpm. We had the extended feed tray that would let us put up to 4000 cards in at a time. We got really good at picking up stacks of 3000-4000 cards and dropping them all on the tray while it was still running. But, when you had a 150,000 cards to sort, you didn't want to stop just to load more cards. We actually block sorted most of the time by sorting the high order column first and putting all the cards in the rack on the wall. That meant only sorting 1/10 of the cards at a time. 2000 cpm, though, made for some pretty bad card jams on occasion. The jams in the transports weren't really too bad. Crumpled cards that were usually easy to redo. But, jams at the feed throat were really bad. The cards were torn and mangled. It could take 1/2 an hour to clear and then replace. Then, we had to start the sort on those cards all over again. BTW, in your demo, as soon as you did the first sort on c/c 15, the cards would be completely out of order. 😊

I knew our printer was an 1100 lpm. It had to be with all the work we had going through.

I remember the 1403 very well. The command I went to in 1970 had a 360/40 with the 1403. They had previously had a 1410 and we were still emulating 1410 during my time there. That was quite a procedure as we had to change all of our disk packs to go to emulation mode and then change them back. I remember how cool it appeared as all 9 of our tape drives would work on sorting. Quite a change to what we have now. I still remember that, when in emulation, I had to hit i space 2 space i in order to enter a command. I think we had to set up a 14k buffer for the printer during IPL. In all my time there we never had any kind of malfunction with the 1403. I seem to remember that it was faster, though. I think it was supposed to be 1100 lpm.

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great video, I'm working on a similar project, I'm curious how did you go about creating a pneumatic actuated electrical contact switch? what is the valve like?

Additional info; This player does used 59 note Organ rolls made by the Aeoilan Corp. Misprint says music roll has 5 holes per inch, should read 6 holes per inch. Tracker bar is from very early 65 note player piano (6 holes per inch). There are extra holes in the tracker bar unused. To use them for percussion would require a custom made wider organ roll.

I preferred the 085, but I have quite a few hours in front of an 082. Very useful machines in their day. I was taught to pull the cards out from the 9 bin first, working back to the right of the machine. It was slightly faster than starting from the reject bin end.

The Aeolian Company issued over 9,000 titles on the 58 note rolls, including the common overtures, waltzes, ragtime, and marches. But music never seen on the later piano rolls like Mozart's "Requiem Mass", and the complete "Messiah" by Handel were also available for the Orchestrelle - a real musical treasure! And if you use the tempo and swell shades, along with artistic registration, really excellent music can result. A very underappreciated instrument! And this example has a stunning case, sounds good, a nice restoration (and these instruments are not easy to restore!).

I remember them well. In tech school in 1972 we had a Honeywell printer that used a drum of some kind. The characters were rarely in a straight line. That made me appreciate the 1403 even more.

Fascinating musical and engineering history.

Opa!!!! Trabalhei operando umas impressoras dessa por muitos anos.

Nice, thanks!

Just made from left-over bits and pieces, I'm impressed - that's how I normally get my chainsaws

Where do you get appropriate player organ rolls? And, the caption says 5 holes per inch? Where did you get the tracker bar? Most player pianos used 9 hole per inch. i believe the first player pianos used 6 holes per inch.

Outstanding video!

The player would require suction, as in player pianos, whereas the pipes require pressure, so the union of the two portions required some thinking. Likely it is a piano roll being played.

What's more rare, a reed organ with a player or a reed organ in a piano cabinet that uses the space above the stops?

👍....good stuff

👍......................good stuff

Nice

Nice!

This Souza march was on an acoustic Victor Talking Machine Co. record that was among a trunkful of records given to me when I was very young (early '50s).

Obviously not a musician bad tempos and registration

It is interesting to see a manual automatic player system. Beautiful machine!

would the tracker bar be to small to add percussion?

Love the louvered shutters below!!! Very clever indeed!!! Quick response too!

Light Calvary Overture.

magnificent

This player was assembled from many old and orphaned spare parts: Player piano 65 note spoolbox - used 58 notes of the tracker bar to play these rolls Wind motor from unknown brand player piano 48 note Salicional pipes & chest from Kilgen Harmonic Ensemble organ 12 Bourdon (bass flute pipes) - Kilgen 12 note Bass pipe chest donated by Rick Morel, Denver CO Small Blower from Kilgen Petite Ensemble organ Aeolian pipe organ "pneumatic to electric" switchbox - tubing from tracker bar leads here Turbine Vacuum motor by Motor Player Corp - from 1927 Gulbransen Recordo player piano 58 note Aeolian Grand/Orchestrelle rolls Note: Thanks to Ed Gaida of San Antonio TX. Ed reproduced a great many of these 100 year old rolls....providing hours of enjoyment for those of us with roll playing reed organs. He saved this music. Jud Murphy Reply

Thank you for this video. I have a soft spot for mechanical instruments of all kinds and this one sounds beautiful. The piece of music is about as familiar as it gets, but until I read a comment below, I never knew what it was (the overture to "Leichte Kavallerie", engl. "Light Cavalry", by Franz von Suppé). It's always nice when that happens. I like operetta, when it's performed in a more restrained manner than is usual in Germany, and have the sheet music to quite a few songs by von Suppé, Lehár, Strauss, Kálmán, etc., but not this overture.

Well, a not very sensitive version of Light Cavalry. Judicious use of the tempo knob, or at least a familiarity with the piece would have helped.

There was an Air Training Corps hut in a park near where I lived in London. There was a Link Trainer inside.

SO COOL! I’m pretty sure this a standard piano roll, not something customized for a harmonium- am I correct? I think this because of the piano-style tremolos, and that some quick scales are just too fast for the reeds to “speak” fully, although clearly this instrument is lovingly maintained, and I imagine an orchestrelle is optimized to speak quickly and therefore handle piano rolls. Also, it’s a thrill to hear the stops being changed manually, which also suggests that IF customized rolls were made that could change stops, this roll does not have them. On a personal note, this is tremendously nostalgic for me. During my early youth in the 1960s, my dad would play light classics (CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, ANVIL CHORUS, MOONLIGHT SONATA Mvt 1/2) on our big upright Kohler player piano, and I believe we had this EXACT roll, or a competing roll with a very similar arrangement. I would dance around and he would laugh. It’s been 60 years… Thank you 🙏🏼!!

This is so cool! Instead of these parts ending up in the landfills, you literally breathed new life into this instrument. One question, how's the conversion done? Do you have bellows which activate electrical switches for the solenoids under the pipes?

This is a vacuum unit? It sounds, though larger, like my model D Aeolian player.

Wow! I loved this!! Thank you for sharing!

Wow!! I LOVE the sound!!! Thank you for sharing!

Fantastic organ😊

Thanks for sharing this video with us! I am a very young mechanical music enthusiast from Dallastown, PA, and I am very surprised to see the Roehl collection outside the Marion Roehl CDs! Roehl's Link 2-EX, North Tonawanda Style 192, Wurlitzer Automatic Harp, another one of his nickelodeons, and possibly his CX, and Seeburg Style L ended up in the American Treasure Tour Museum in Oaks PA.

I am a retired IBM CE and I worked on them as little as possible because of card jams. Reject chute blade was the toughest to form. And yes I still have the 10/20 gauge and bending tool.

I was a CE and I worked on the 3203 until 1996. At that time there were still some 1403s in service. The 3203 was based on the 1403 except instead of having a hydraulic forms feed drive it had a stepper motor. Also different instead of the forms control tape the operator would load a forms control buffer into the printer.

Great. We had a 300LPM 1400 in college on an IBM 1130. Great printer. Very reliable.

nice video Thanks

Connect it to Hercules emulator.

Very informative. Thanks for sharing!

I wrote a banner printing pgm on 2 punch cards, no o/s. Just CCW manipulation Imagine 160 bytes

4:32 That is a rare North Tonawanda Style L, and Harvey's L was heard in the CD, "Electric Piano Ragtime", made by Bill Black.

Wiki says link built around a 130 theater pipe organs. Anyone know if any survived? Just curious. There was endless roll player at the winchester mystery house in san jose ca. Not sure if it's still there. They always attract attention because folks are sure the roll will get tangled up somehow, lol. Never seen it happen though. Also, as a boy, got to fly/ride in a link trainer on the former fort-ord military base back in the mid sixites during armed forces day. They had a room with a few of them that were enclosed for teaching instrument flight letting kids have a go. I'll never forget it. Cheers!