•The posting yesterday by me entitled "ittyMIDI Palm IIIxe MIDI Player Bundle" should have been titled "PDA remote for Pianodisc". The remote control that I was commenting on is offered by www.maestrorf.com. The MIDI Player Bundle in yesterday's subject line is offered by www.ittymidi.com. [ At http...

•The DeBence Museum was given a quite rare Maestro player with a lot of parts missing, and I posted last fall looking for information. I got one reply from a gentleman who said he had literature and parts which would let us complete the restoration. He was waiting for Spring to get into his storage ...

•The Maestro player action currently on eBay auction is, indeed, a keytop player, but a very early design primarily for use on organ keyboards. This accounts for the small number of actuating rods. With difficulty I can count around the high forties from the photos so it may play the 46-note roll or...

•Available: 50-note organ or piano push-up player made by The Maestro Company of Elbridge, New York. Please write for more information. James Williams South Ogden, Utah ampicojim@netscape.net.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

•Yesterday MMD's "eBay watch" [at the bottom of only the email version of MMDigest] listed a "keytop player by Maestro Co., Elbridge, NY", http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1490780711 I have been watching this item with some curiosity since it was first listed. It seems to me to...

•Ord-Hume's "Pianola" book has a picture of this identical instrument and also a copy of its original advert. It sold for $40 around 1900 and was a key-top player for an organ (which explains why it has no dynamic control levers). According to the text it plays a special 50-note roll 9-3/4 inches wi...

•I have 6 rolls for the Maestro Co. keytop organ player, and would like to know if anyone has ever seen the actual organ player itself. They are 50-note rolls. The only information I am able to find is from a few postings in the MMD Archives back in 2001. I would enjoy hearing back from anyone who h...

•We at DeBence Antique Music World have recently received a Maestro keytop player, or should I say "parts" for the machine. It appears there are many missing, such as the roll drive and controls for the drive. There is no reservoir, so do we assume it was hand pumped? I have several pictures of what...

•DeBence Antique Music World museum is now in possession of the 50-note Maestro mentioned several times in the past on MMD that belonged to James Williams. Unfortunately it is missing some critical components which we can probably reproduce if we had any idea what they were. Based on what we have be...

•The DeBence Museum has a Maestro 50-note push-up piano or organ player built in Elbridge, New York. I posted about this about two years ago, as we are missing a lot of parts, and are not even sure what is missing. See https://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/201709/2017.09.27.05.html I got a reply...

•I am looking for Ampico roll #216403, played by Noel Sherry (Frank Milne). It is titled "Music Maestro Please". I'll be happy with the original or a recut. Does anyone have a copy they would be willing to sell? Thank you, Barry Batezel [ Ampico 216403 is performed on YouTube at [ https://www.youtub...

•Hello Folks. I know all too well exactly what the Maestro machine is. It is an utterly pneumatic reed organ keytop player with a hand crank to pump the bellows. I unearthed documents during research at the Elbridge Village Archives at the Elbridge Public Library several years ago while pursuing exp...

•http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/nyregion/randolph-herr-64-maestro-of-the-player-piano.html John Hupcey

•Death of a Player Piano Hello all, I found this clip on YouTube: "Maestro Dragan Piano Killer". Kind of sad yet, if nothing else, at least interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szIbzas37Vk Rob Goodale Las Vegas, Nevada

> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 08:38:29 -0400 (EDT) > To: automatic-music@foxtail.com > From: maestro > a listing of those who may want their e-mail > addresses published. Angelo, I would be very much in favour of publishing such an email list in the MBSI News Bulletin. And, carry it one step further and b...

•I had that recording -- I got it about 1961. Most of it (the sound) was Carl Frei. My favorite number was "Music Maestro Please." Also, a first recording of another street organ was made in 1957: it was titled "Afternoon in Amsterdam." It was a Gavioli Draaiorgel. My favorite number on that was " B...

•>[ Mark, you display all of the attributes of a successful organ grinder! >[ I hope that Maestro Angelo Rulli of MBSI (and MMD, too) will respond >[ with more encouragement for you. Claus Kucher and Ingmar Krause will >[ soon tell us (I hope) of all the fun at the recent grind-organ >[ festival in ...

•I guess concert pianists really do play harder in loud passages than a normal person would. But hard enough to break strings and hammers? They shouldn't. I bet if the repairs to the piano were coming out of the maestro's pocket he'd either keep the orchestra down to where the piano could be heard o...

•As to the origins of people thinking there were player pianos in old Western movies, my guess is it comes from the sound track. Ragtime and other popular tunes of the day, played by a sleeve-gartered piano maestro on a rinky-tink out-of-tune upright piano in the parlor of a gambling saloon or sport...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- In response to Mr. Rhodes' 2004.12.15 post reporting of a PDA remote control for the Disklavier, there is also a PDA remote control available for the PianoDisc line: http://www.maestrorf.com/ William Cummings