•A recent journal article says that Sankyo Shoji will produce a 33-note paper strip musical movement, like the Sankyo MM11 but with a true chromatic gamma (scale). Reference: "Le Rêveur, une composition originale pour boîte à musique", par Yves Strobbe, Musiques Mécaniques Vivantes, Revue de l'Assoc...

•Hi MMD and Sankyo manivelle friends, here are some detailed informations about the new chromatic Sankyo. I got them from Gérard Dabonot of the famous French trading company "Le Turlutain". Le Turlutain Musique Mécanique, Editions Musicales 104 Rue d'Alsace 54110 Sommerviller http://leturlutain.free...

•Hello Robbie, Thank you for publishing the report concerning the 33-note music box on the MMD web site. I just would like to add that the enhanced quality of the 33-note mechanism with respect to the 20-note music box is due to the presence of the dampers under the blades on the former. The dampers...

•I'm particularly interested in the 33-note Sankyo paper strip musical movement but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I've found only the 20-note version at a few retailers in the United States. Is there a wholesaler for either version, or a retailer for the 33-note version? Thanks! Brian Coates [ S...

•Instead of buying the expensive but lovely 33-note chromatic music box by Harada, I chose to buy the semi-chromatic 30-note box that was recently released. I bought my mine from Grand Illusions and it is the same as offered by other retailers as well. I ended up planning to build an automatic box t...

•Dear music box lovers, concerning the post of Roger Gonnissen, I just want to say that Sankyo has stopped making 30 notes paper movements for several years now, but they have made a new one which has 33 notes, 3 semitones more in the bass. The problem, of course, is that the 30-note movement has th...

•Hi paper strip musical box friends, concerning the MMDigest postings of Roger Gonnissen 12.01.25.01, Nancy Fratti 12.01.26.03 and Gérard Dabonot 12.01.26.04, there is an effective British trader who sells new 30-note paper strip musical boxes like the one Roger Gonnissen described as his own: N J D...

•You can find all you need on our website for the different Sankyo or other music box strip systems in 15-, 20-, 30- or 33-notes. We can also make strips from your MIDI files on the several scales with our laser cutting machine. http://www.leturlutain.fr/index.php?item=music-box-shop&action=page&gro...

•This describes a small basket-case[*] 33-key book-playing organ of pos- sibly Dutch ancestry that I picked up a couple years ago from another collector with too many projects (now guess who has too many). I intend to restore this organ and try to figure out its tortured provenance. What I got inclu...

•As far as I can see, Nidec Sankyo today offers only its 20-note diatonic movement, but their (out of production?) 33-note chromatic movement can still be ordered from leturlutain.fr and spieluhr.de, unfortunately at a price I couldn't afford. ;-) All the other paper strip movements, may it be 18-no...

•[ Ref. Mike Perry in 210422 MMDigest ] Hello! You can find some strips for 20- and 33-note Sankyo strip-music boxes, and also for Chinese one in 15 and 30 notes, on our website in France here: https://www.leturlutain.fr/index.php?item=cartes-perforees-20-notes Sorry it is in French but we can give ...

•Clippard Instrument Laboratory Inc., a maker of pneumatic components, recently demonstrated a MIDI-controlled six-string guitar that plays 33 notes using 62 air cylinders and 62 pneumatic valves. Short videos of music are at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qytBWQDgAGU and http://www.youtube.com/watc...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Greetings, I am highly interested in adapting a MIDI system to a "barrel" organ so that I can program the arrangements and melodies into it. I am aware of the system Alan Pell uses, but don't see the manner to input arrangements into it. I am als...

•[ Ref. Rick Wilkins in 180928 MMDigest ] The organ looks like a version of 'Melodeon', produced by Wilhelm Spaethe of Gera, Germany, from 1878 (German patent No. 2151). They were produced in various sizes from 14- to 33-note versions. Yours looks like one of the larger ones. We have a short article...

•Dear MMDs, The traditional auction of mechanical music and automatas will take place in Chartres (1 hour from Paris, France) on Sunday, May 29th, 2011. Ca. 240 items are for sale: About 40 good automatas and some singing birds in cage or tabatières, by Bontems, Decamps (Mexican zither player), Phal...

•In his latest posting Matthew Caulfield mentioned a laser punching perforator for paper-rolls. It seems however that, unfortunately, the owner, Donald Neilson Sr., has nobody to run this interesting machine. Since we have ourselves conceived a laser cutting perforator system for organ books we woul...

•Hello MMD. In the Digest of 031015 Ken Rosen enquires about the scale for Aeolian 65-note pin-end rolls. My Aeolian 65-note pushup has the "A natural" one octave above the lowest note on the piano as its first note in the bass, and has the "C sharp" almost one octave (bar one semitone) as its highe...

•Hello Martin Tengström and MMD! Thanks for confirming the fact that the discs for the 28-note Nystroem's Reform Organ and its lesser relative, the 24-note Complett Organ, such as you describe it, actually are the same diameter, that is 36.5 centimeters, or approximately 14-1/2 inches. Consequently...

•I am looking for several organettes to add to my collection and wonder if any MMD members can help? 1. Magnus Organ #5200, plays a 9-inch wide 29-note roll, plastic case, electrically driven, each spool has a drive gear on it. 2. Sonatina disc playing organette, any model; 3 sizes made. 3. Ariston...

•Hi Group, In 090429 MMDigest Bob Oppenheim asked about the scale of the 72-key Decap dance hall organ. In "Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments" by Reblitz you will find the following scale -- Decap 72-key books 265 mm (10-7/16" wide) 8 Bass notes 9 Accompaniment notes 16 Melody notes 16 Cou...