Seeburg Dog Race Coin Piano

This Seeburg Greyhound coin piano is from 1928, and was recently pneumatically restored. These instruments were designed to get around gambling laws. The idea was that the instrument vended music; it did not pay out any money. Patrons at the establishment could make side bets with their friends for their favorite dog while nobody was the wiser. The credit accumulator would max out at five credits, so you can restart the dog race as soon as it stops during the music and not build up a bunch of credits and play the music nonstop. Features a 54 note piano, operating from a standard "A" music roll, the song is "Royal Garden Blues" composed by Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams in 1919 as played by J. Russel Robinson for QRS, transposed for an "A" roll by Timothy Baxter of Meliora Music Rolls.

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