Introduction
By Adam G. Ramet
Allow me to introduce myself after eavesdropping around for a few weeks. My name is Adam Ramet and for the demographics study I'm 25 years old. I have 3 players: 1) a 58/65 note Angelus (Wilcox & White Co.) player from 1907 with the stack unusually mounted under the keyboard. It plays the bottom to top reverse wound 65-note Angelus rolls as well as 58-note Wilcox and White Symphony Organ rolls. Very strange setup indeed. (2) a regular Solodant 88-note Gilbert player from 1916 (3) a recently acquired foot-pumped Duo-Art (with 1/2 expression only) from 1929 requiring a rebuild.
I have also a large (1500+ items) collection of sheet music from ca. 1830-1990's, the majority being 1890-1940. I even have a copy of the recently discussed "'Tain't no Sin" somewhere, if the sheet music is ever required. I play piano occasionally as a performer and occasionally assist theatre productions in musical directing, arrangement and rehersals work. I'm currently studying to become a lawyer in Bournemouth, England, however ... hey, you have to earn money to fund these odd hobbies & past-times somehow, don't you! I know someone with a Hooghuys fair organ and also the curator of a mechanical music museum and hope to persuade them to perhaps contribute to the discussions here.
In our property law lecture the other day the lecturer told us that across the road from the University here the church has a self-playing carillon. Roll-player or pinned I can't say. Apparently the religious sisters who owned all the land around here and built the church had it installed, as in their opinion "human bell-ringers (in their experience) would always end up drinking at the pub on Sundays," apparently something for which they themselves had no tolerance for, on a Sunday especially. I hope to pay the church a visit soon.
Regards, Adam Ramet u9504734@bournemouth.ac.uk
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