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MMD Archives Authors Nicholas Simons The most recent submissions are listed first. Address supressed for SPAM control purposes. Write to the editor if you need assistance Digest Nr Subject 2008.05.08.03 10-1/2" Wide Music Roll 2008.04.28.06 Portable Amplifier for Music Box Demonstrations 2008.04.21.03 Barrel Organ Playing on YouTube 2008.02.13.09 Effect of Tracker Bar Hose Length on Repetition 2008.02.13.06 Repairing Stripped Wood Screw Threads 2008.02.04.02 Recording of 98-key Gavioli Organ at Thursford 2007.11.05.04 Composer of "Durch Nacht zum Licht" 2007.11.02.08 Troublesome Pipe in Busker Organ 2007.09.30.02 10-tune 'A' Rolls of Scott Joplin Rags 2007.09.23.05 Red Welte Rolls "Available" 2007.09.10.04 48-key Organ Music in Europe 2007.09.08.01 Key System Book Music Reader Pictures 2007.08.19.02 Playasax Disassembly 2007.08.04.04 Rolls of Chopin's Op. 49, Fantasie Brilliante 2007.03.16.13 Regina Sublima Piano Motor Pulley 2007.03.07.02 33-key Ruth Fraud on eBay 2007.02.04.05 Making Trumpet Pipes With Free Reeds 2006.11.21.10 Calculations for Metallophone Bars 2006.11.16.03 Self-playing Harpsichord 2006.11.09.03 Seek Rob DeLand 2006.10.29.03 Scale of Tanzbaer 16-note Player Accordion 2006.09.13.02 Ehrlich's Musik Automat 2006.08.28.01 Mid-size Pedal Player Organs 2006.07.15.01 Book "Leginska - Forgotten Genius of Music" 2006.07.07.06 Scale of 28-note Tanzbaer Player Accordion 2006.07.07.05 Source of Colloidal Graphite 2006.07.07.02 Storing Music Rolls 2006.06.04.01 Prices Realized - Gerald Stonehill Collection 2006.05.25.01 Cushion Pouches of Zephyr Skin & "Gold Fleece" 2006.05.17.09 Hupfeld "Clavitist" Fallboard Decal 2006.05.17.08 Aeolian Vibrations and the Stockbridge Damper 2006.05.17.01 Herbert Slack Gavioli at Crich Tramway Museum 2006.04.12.10 Mech. Music Terms: Keyframe Pressure Device 2006.04.12.02 Imhof & Mukle Orchestrion at Birmingham Museum 2006.02.05.10 Counter-Melody & the Wurlitzer Trumpet Division 2006.02.05.04 Replacement Comb for Musical Box 2006.01.22.09 Restoring a Celestina Organette 2006.01.21.04 Archival Media For Digital Data 2005.11.14.04 Rewinding Player Piano Motor for European Mains 2005.11.09.04 Photos of Ed Freyer 2005.10.19.05 Sending Money Abroad 2005.10.18.01 Value of Triola Roll-Playing Zither 2005.09.26.03 Organ Enthusiasts' Day, Stowmarket, 2 Oct 2005 2005.07.17.02 Player Piano Keys Don't Move 2005.06.07.07 Fussell Accordion Band 2005.04.15.09 Pneumatic Bleeds in Keyless Player Organs 2005.04.05.06 Rebuilding Aeolian Grand Player Organ Pneumatics 2005.03.17.08 Adding Pipes to "O" Roll Orchestrion 2005.01.26.13 Sealing Bellows Leaks 2005.01.20.09 Dial Test Indicator for Valve Regulation 2004.12.20.09 Estimating Tracker Bar Tubing Needed 2004.09.11.01 Melodian Paper Strip Music Box 2004.09.10.06 Using a Template to Punch Book Music 2004.08.17.02 Thomas Jansen, Musikwerkstatt Monschau 2004.07.29.04 Recut Music Rolls by Thomas Jansen 2004.07.17.01 Organ Pipe Pitch vs. Air Temperature 2004.07.13.01 Player Bagpipes 2004.07.12.17 Key Lock Device in Upright Player Pianos 2004.07.11.02 Mechanical Music Toys in "The Organette Book" 2004.07.05.03 Tomy Tuneyville Player Pipe Organ Musical Box Toys 2004.07.03.02 Tuneyville Player Pipe Organ Musical Box Toys 2004.06.24.06 Repairing Tanzbar Player Accordion Rolls 2004.05.06.07 10-3/8" Wide Music Rolls With Wood Flanges 2004.05.01.16 Stripped Screw Holes in Wood 2004.05.01.06 Optimising Hand-Cranked Organ Feeders 2004.04.29.07 Vacuum Transducer for Motor Speed Control 2004.04.29.03 Optimising Hand-Cranked Organ Feeders 2004.04.20.05 Welte Cottage Orchestrion at Disneyland 2004.02.22.07 James Watt & Watt's Linkage 2004.02.20.10 Deal Softwood 2004.02.20.05 James Watt & Watt's Linkage 2004.02.03.04 Earthing or Grounding? 2004.02.01.11 Earthing Electric Motors in Pianos 2004.01.13.05 Restoring an Organette 2004.01.10.05 Source of Rosewood in UK 2004.01.05.06 How To Move a Piano 2003.11.20.13 Decap Dance Organ Pump Speed 2003.11.19.15 Decap Dance Organ Pump Speed 2003.11.04.09 Converting Instruments to Play Different Media 2003.10.27.01 Gavioli 48-key "Orgue a Trombone" & Mon Corvi 2003.10.12.01 Lustspiel Comedy Overture 2003.10.09.10 Lustspiel Comedy Overtures by Bela-Keler 2003.10.07.04 Unknown Overture Heard on 38er Voigt Concert Organ 2003.09.19.01 Mikado Polyphon From Harold Smith Collection 2003.09.08.03 Source of Arburo Rolls 2003.09.07.04 Liszt "Annees de Pelerinage" on Hupfeld Rolls 2003.09.07.02 Book "Player Piano" by Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume 2003.08.01.04 Use Leather Where Originally Used 2003.07.30.09 Use Leather for Long Life 2003.07.28.08 Sealing Leather 2003.06.26.06 Poppers Konzertist Piano 2003.06.25.01 Singing Bird Musical Box by Freres Rochat 2003.06.20.07 Cutting Grooves for Organ Pipe Tuning Slide 2003.06.17.07 Mechanical Music in London 2003.06.12.05 Replacing Organette Reeds 2003.06.11.11 Exhauster & Reserve Bellows of Organette 2003.05.19.02 Conversion of Original Instruments 2003.05.12.07 Unusual Flap Valves 2003.05.06.07 Duo-Art System Engineering 2003.05.03.05 Duo-Art System Engineering 2003.03.29.06 Andersson 18-Note Piano-Harpa Scale 2003.03.05.04 Piano Rolls With Square Drive Hole in Flange 2003.03.02.08 Quality of Thin Tosh Rubberized Cloth 2003.02.26.01 "Testophone" Musical Car Horn 2003.01.23.15 FS: Book "The Fairground Organ" by Eric Cockayne 2003.01.17.02 Music Roll Has Center Sprocket Holes - Hupfeld 2003.01.05.10 QRS Story & Clark Self-Tuning Piano System 2002.12.18.22 Springs Inside Kastner Pedal Bellows 2002.12.18.17 Single or Double Valves in Street Organs 2002.12.02.07 Asbestos in Player Piano 2002.11.09.03 Speed of Triola Music Roll 2002.10.11.05 Source of Backed and Stitched Damper Felt 2002.07.17.09 Royalties for Automatic Music in Public 2002.07.04.04 Unusual Steck Tracker Bar 2002.05.30.09 Technically Dead! Mrs. Tuttle is Alive and Well 2002.05.28.01 Harold Smith Collection Auction - Prices Paid 2002.05.18.01 Marks on Triola Zither Rolls & Correct Playing 2002.05.17.02 Marks on Triola Zither Rolls & Correct Playing 2002.04.14.01 Harold Smith Collection For Sale At Auction 2002.03.30.03 Tuning Jazz Flute Rank 2002.02.24.02 Euphonium Player Reed Organette 2002.02.19.09 Rolmonica Player Harmonica 2002.01.27.08 Hupfeld DEA Music Rolls Recut by Thomas Jansen 2002.01.26.08 Hupfeld DEA & Rolls for Dienst Player Mechanism 2001.12.22.04 Converting Orchestrelle to Play 88-Note Rolls 2001.12.22.02 Tuning of Old Square Grand Piano 2001.12.02.02 Keytop Organ Player by Maestro Co., Elbridge, NY 2001.10.29.12 Seek Supplier of Lead Tubing 2001.10.02.11 FS: Arburo Dance Organ in UK 2001.09.10.08 QRS Organ Rolls for Storey & Clarke Organs 2001.09.09.12 Engineering Units Of Pressure 2001.08.24.14 FS: Triumph Auto-Piano 88-Note Player in England 2001.08.16.08 Seek Round Flexible Drive Belting 2001.05.27.03 Seek Arburo Rolls 2001.05.20.06 Tempo of Scott Joplin Rags

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