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Here's the 2nd of these I currently have easy access to. (before they both maybe get stored/buried again somewhere?) The main point for this additional showing is for better pics of the SCHULMERICH CHIMEATRON logo (pic 1) and another 'legal license' logo (pic 2) which both instruments also feature on their front covers. This one did not come with its own 'extra tiny keyboard', instead it was equipped with a different sort/set of actuating switches that allowed it to be played from an actual (totally unconnected electrially) church organ console keyboard instead, where its sound would no doubt have also been heard from some variety of "remote mounted speakers" somewhere.
Other details of this one leading me to think it is ultimately somewhat newer is its 'aluminum toned' nameplate with much more complicated 'model number', also that it is equipped with a small "solid state" (vs. 'electron tube') internal amplifier. I didn't know that myself until this afternoon when I opened this one up for the pics.
I won't be able to re-test this one for functionality without a little further work...it will need at least a new/appended power cord before I can see if the keyboard unit from my other Chime-Atron will operate it, or if I have to go further digging to find out wherever I misplaced that rail of 'underkey contacts' and whatever cord it might still have attached to it that this one came with -- I *do* know that this one also still worked when I removed it from its former service anyway, so it probably still works too...?? ;-) :-) :-)
Here's the link to Chime-Atron #1, BTW:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/284101-schulmerich-carillons-chime-a-tron-1?in=all