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Xylophones in Seeburg Coin Pianos

Large-scale xylophone with beaters a little larger than 1” in diameter.

(Photograph courtesy of Art Reblitz)

Large-scale xylophone with beaters a little larger than 1” in diameter, from Seeburg H #54,153 made in 1922. The large beaters are typically found in all style H orchestrions through 1922, and in all models E, K, and KT made in 1922. The bars, of unknown manufacture, are also slightly larger scale than the later bars made by J.C. Deagan.
Late style xylophone with 7/8” beaters, typically found in all models E, K, KT, and KT Special from 1923 onward.

(Photograph courtesy of Art Reblitz)

Later style xylophone with 7/8” beaters, typically found in all models E, K, KT, and KT Special from 1923 on. The fine-quality bars were made by the prolific J.C. Deagan Co. of Chicago. All Seeburg xylophones seen to date are tuned to A=435, and it is wrong to retune the piano, pipes, or xylophone in a pre-1930 coin piano to A=440 or some other pitch just because that happens to be popular today.
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