Colors Used on
Seeburg Pneumatic Components

Early Seeburg Style K with green shellac finish on all pneumatic components.

(Photograph courtesy of Art Reblitz)

Early Seeburg coin pianos, both keyboardless and keyboard styles, typically have green shellac finish on all pneumatic components. (Seeburg style K with violin pipes and Haddorff piano #55,542, made in 1913.)
Early Seeburg style J with red shellac finish on the pneumatic components above the keyboard.

(Photograph courtesy of Art Reblitz)

Early Seeburg keyboard-style orchestrions typically have red shellac finish on the pneumatic components above the keyboard (stacks, pipe chests, drum mechanisms, etc.), and green shellac on components below the keyboard. This picture shows the red shellac finish on the pneumatic stack in Seeburg J #8,640, made in 1913. By the late ’teens, Seeburg finished all pneumatic components with black shellac.
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