Coin Slot Magazine - #022 - 1976 - November [International Arcade Museum]
MUSIC
Back in 1967, when
came out with his
In, I remember
it was going to ruin
chine collecting;
drive the prices up
source of machines.
In 1962 1 saw, a
for $800.00 and in
sell for over
you might say it
David Q. Bowers
Put Another Nickel
hearing cries of how
coin music ma-
how it was going to
and dry up the
wurlitzer sell
1976 I saw one
$16,000.00,50
has driven the pri-
ces up, but it also has
made greater appre-
ciation for these
machines and placed
them in hands of people who could afford professional restorations.
I recently saw a Seeburg G orchestration that was stored in a garage
with the player mechanism removed and scattered about. Even if the
intentions were pure enough, the owner did not possess the skills
necessary to restore the machine to the state it deserved, nor could
he afford a professional job. I would much sooner see the instru
ment go to someone for a high dollar that would see to it that it had
proper restoration.
In the past year I've run across a variety of instruments from as low
as $800.00 to $2,500.00 for a very rough K.T. Seeburg. We restored
the K.T. Seegurg for a cost of $3,000.00 and for an investment of
$5,500.00, we had an instrument we could m
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had a great investment. The buys are still out there to be had, and if
you are one of the fortunate ones that possesses the skill necessary to
do a professional job, so much the better.
sary skills to do case refinishing.
It is my opinion that we owe
thanks to Mr. Bowers for exciting us with his fine books on the
subject about automatic music machines.
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