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Wurlitzer Caliola Tracker Bar

January 2013

Wurlitzer Automatic Player Piano (APP) & Caliola tracker bar scale.

Data from collectors Bill Black, Bob Fine, Fritz Gellerman, 
and from the book, "Treasury of Mechanical Music" by Arthur A. Reblitz.

APP	MIDI	note	remarks
roll	note	name

 1  Shut-off (coin trip)
 2  ON  mandolin & hammer rail
 3  OFF mandolin & Hammer rail
 4  ON  sustaining pedal
 5  OFF sustaining pedal
 6  snare drum (reiterating)
 7	33	A	lowest note on APP piano
 8	34	A#	
 9	35	B	
10	36	C	A-roll piano lowest note
11	37	C#	
12	38	D	
13	39	D#	
14	40	E	
15	41	F	
16	42	F#	
17	43	G	
18	44	G#	
19	45	A	
20	46	A#	
21	47	B	
22	48	C	(National calliope lowest note)
23	49	C#	
24	50	D	
25	51	D#	
26	52	E	
27	53	F	F below Middle C - longest pipe on Caliola (pipe #1)
28	54	F#	
29	55	G	
30	56	G#	
31	57	A	
32	58	A#	
33	59	B	
34	60	C	Middle C, MIDI note 60
35	61	C#	
36	62	D	
37	63	D#
38	64	E	(on the center line of the paper)
39	65	F	
40	66	F#	
41	67	G	
42	68	G#	
43	69	A
44	70	A#	
45	71	B	
46	72	C	
47	73	C#	
48	74	D	
49	75	D#	
50	76	E	
51	77	F	
52	78	F#	
53	79	G	
54	80	G#	
55	81	A	Caliola lowest bell
56	82	A#	
57	83	B	
58	84	C	
59	85	C#	
60	86	D	
61	87	D#	
62	88	E	
63	89	F	
64	90	F#	
65	91	G	
66	92	G#	
67	93	A	(A-roll piano highest note)
68	94	A#	
69	95	B	(Tangley 43-key highest note)
70	96	C	Caliola highest note, highest bell
71	97	C#	APP highest note
72  ON  violin
73  OFF violin
74  bass drum
75  (rewind)

Notes:

• The Caliola is instrumented with 44 wood (optionally brass) flute pipes plus optional bass and snare drum.
• The Caliola plays 65 note Automatic Player Piano (APP) music rolls but has only a 44 note pipe scale. The transfer block serves as a means to use octave coupling to allow the machine to play these additional notes on the music roll.
• Bells were not original equipment, only a modified caliola would have bells.
• Unlike band organs, the caliola scale is fully chromatic.