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Whether you have a Roller Organ passed down through the family or a "basket case" organette found at a local auction, flea market or antique shop, "Roller Organ Repair & Restorations" can bring it back to life again for you to enjoy! Only hot hide glues, quality leathers, bellows cloth and period materials
are used to maintain the original integrity of the instrument.
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machines only, any additional restoration required such as replacing
non-repairable, missing or broken parts can incur additional
charges and cannot be determined without examination of the instrument.
Note: Also includes The Home Music Box, New American Music Box and Sears Gem Roller Organ.
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All pricing is based on mechanically complete
machines only, any additional restoration required such as replacing
non-repairable, missing or broken parts can incur additional
charges and cannot be determined without examination of the instrument. FOR RESTORATION PRICING ON ORGANETTE'S NOT LISTED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Why send my organette to Roller Organ Repair & Restorations for restoration? I specialize in restoring only American and European Roller Organ's and Organette's. For the most part, clock shops and/or Piano repair shops do not specialize in organette's or roller organs, in fact I've had many shops send the organette's here for restoration through the years. In a lot of cases, well meaning amateur repairs can almost destroy an organette by using modern glues, improper bellows material and incorrect leather which can only make a restoration more difficult later. These instruments require the correct materials I use to be restored to their original working condition, anything less will only compromise the instrument's operation. Can I still buy music for Roller Organ's & Organette's? Yes, reproduction and newer music is still produced today for a variety of instruments! New reproduction music rolls can be purchased at Schmidt's Music Rolls and range in price from $8 to $95 depending on the type of organette. Cobs,
or rollers, used on Roller Organs are still produced today at Honor Rolls for $21 each. Why does my Organette sound out of tune? All American made organette's used brass reeds which can unfortunately fatigue, go out of tune or break with age. Some of the more expensive European organette's offered steel reeds as an upgrade which are less likely to fail and hold tune much better. At Roller Organ Repair and Restorations all reeds are cleaned and re-tuned in all restorations. Why does my Roller Organ play the wrong notes sometimes? In most cases it's simply a case of the cob carriage assembly and valve tips being out of alignment which causes the cob to track incorrectly. Side-to-side movement of the pallet valves can also be a factor and in severe cases it can be caused by worn gears and/or mechanical parts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Autophone, Aurephone, Automatic Melodista, Amorette, Ariosa, Ariston, Grand, Concert/Chautauqua & Gem Roller Organs, Gately Automatic Organ, Gem Organetta, Bijou Orchestrone, Barrel Organs, Cabinetto, Celestina, Cecelia, Dulciphone, Diana, Harmonette, Herophon, Helikon, Home Music Box, Intona, Lucia, Mandolina, Mechanical Orguinette, Mascotte, Melodia,
Musette, Mignon, Musical Casket, McTammany, Little Dot, Organina, Organita, Phoenix, Reed Pipe Clariona, Seraphone, Symphonia, Tournaphone, and
the list goes on....
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Standard restoration includes new exhauster
& reservoir bellows cloth, new leather/felt pallet-valve pads, new
inner/outer leather flap valve & dump valve leather, new front valve
panel seal, realignment of cob mechanism & pallet valves, cleaning
of all reeds & re-tuning if necessary. $235.00 + Shipping/lns cost.
Standard restoration includes new exhauster
& reservoir bellows material, reproduction bellows book paper on
exposed reservoir models, new leather reservoir seal, new felt/leather
pallet valve key pads, new inner/outer flap valves & dump valve
leather, realignment of cob mechanism & pallet valves, cleaning of
all reeds & retuning if necessary.
Standard restoration includes new exhauster
& reservoir bellows material, new felt/leather pallet valve keypads,
new inner/outer flap valves & dump valve leather, realignment of
cob mechanism & pallet valves, cleaning of all reeds & re-tuning
if necessary.
Standard restoration includes new exhauster
& reservoir bellows material, new felt/leather pallet-valve keypads,
new leather reservoir seal, new inner/outer leather flap valves &
dump valve leather, realignment of cob mechanism & pallet valves,
cleaning of all reeds & re-tuning if necessary.
