Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #083 - 1982 - January [International Arcade Museum]
PUT ANOTHER NICKEL IN
Art Reblitz
The Care and Feeding
of the
WurliTzer Automatic
Music Roll Changer
Many WurliTzer coin pianos and orchestrions incor
porated one of the most interesting mechanisms ever
used in any music machine — the automatic music roll
changer. Containing a number of music rolls, the
changer pulls one of the roll leaders down over the
tracker bar, threads it onto the takeup spool, plays
each selection on the roll upon insertion of a nickel,
rewinds the roll after the last selection all the way off
the takeup spool, shuts off and waits to perform the
entire sequence again.
Two completely different roll changing mechanisms
were used in WurliTzer instruments: the original
Philipps device used in PianOrchestras and Paganini
violin pianos imported from Germany, and the American
WurliTzer mechanism used in coin pianos, keyboard
style orchestrions, Bijou Orchestras, Solo Violin pianos
and Autograph pianos For the novice, the most
apparent distinguishing feature between the two
changers is that the Phillips changer has a huge
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The early style WurliTzer roll changer, with speed control knob and chain on the right side. This photograph is
from an original WurliTzerad reprinted in Put Another Nickel In by Q. David Bowers, original edition published by
The Vestal Press 1966.
© January
The International
1982 Arcade Museum
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