Unfortunately the auction of the Tuschinsky-collection at Butterfield & Butterfield went without our participation, simply because we didn't know about it. Does somebody know what happened there? Kind regards, Gerhard Dangel-Reese¶ Augustinermuseum¶ Salzstr.32, D-79098 Freiburg¶ fon *49-761-201-2528...

One of the most important collections of player piano rolls and instruments passed over the auction block on February 16 and 17 at the Butterfield & Butterfield auction house in Hollywood, California. Approximately 9,500 piano rolls, consisting of 3,600 Ampicos, 3,000 Duo-Arts, and 2,700 Red Label W...

•One of the fabled Joseph Tushinsky Vorsetzers has been listed for sale on eBay. The history of these units has been discussed before on MMD in a series of posts by Jim Miller. This one is Number 3 -- the Ampico/Duo-Art/Welte unit. See http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/T/tushinsky.html and http...

•One correction to the comment that Yamaha bought Pianocorder to put them out of business. This is not true. I worked for Pianocorder at one time and have family that has been a Yamaha dealer since 1963. The Pianocorder division of Superscope had been sold to someone else. It was this someone else t...

•Hi All, I've recently rediscovered and enjoyed some roll recordings which the late Tom Steuer made by pushing the Tushinsky push-up against his Disklavier. I corresponded extensively with Tom for some time because he was interested in building a roll scanner to enable him to transfer his massive ro...

•In the mid 1970's I spent an evening at Joseph Tushinsky's home and saw the Vorsetzer that his people had built that would play all the types of reproducing pianos. Robbie Rhodes described the mechanism quite accurately. I ran across some old business records today and I noticed the Welte Licensee ...

•Part One: The Tushinsky Vorsetzers Having now just passed the 51st anniversary of the premiere radio broadcast of "Keyboard Immortals Play Again - In Stereo!," first presented on Los Angeles radio station KFAC-FM the Sunday evening of October 2, 1966, I thought it might be of interest to some in or...

•Vorsetzer No. 0: At some time later, this machine/instrument was given to this writer, to be later sold to a stock broker residing in the West San Fernando Valley, it then a bit later being re-built by Larry Broadmoore of San Fernando proper. As far as I am aware, it is playing-still and, has a goo...

•Vorsetzer No. 3: No. 3, the "Tri-Plex" Vorsetzer (as it was to be dubbed by some now-forgotten, creative soul) also remained Tushinsky's 'till the end but, was at that tragic time found in a million parts (Remember the perfecting?) being spread all over Creation, in the work area at the Encino hous...

•Noted here as well was the excellent heralding done by Larry Kerecman in the 181224 MMDigest, concerning the surprise appearance of "Old No. 3" now up for sale on eBay. It would seem that The Fates are not yet quite done with the instrument and that there yet is more to go in all their traveling ca...

•Yes, yet another part, this time concerning the No. 3 Tushinsky Vorsetzer (mine) now up-for-sale on eBay. After inspecting carefully the five images allowed us by the seller of the instrument, I've tentatively concluded certain things. As relating directly to these as well as a bit more, I sent thr...

•This little offering is with respect to Ellsworth O. Johnson's MMD submission, "Joseph Tushinsky's Welte-Mignon Roll Changer", of October 18, 2002. As I do often these days, my mind was wandering in wonderment over past associations, acquaintances and friends of the living and sadly (mostly) no lon...

•[ Ref. Jim Miller in 210925 MMDigest ] Fascinating story, I visited the Superscope Marantz PianoCorder recording studio about 35 years ago and witnessed the Welte electro-pneumatic ten-roll changer and also the super-duper ultra high speed PianoCorder cassette tape duplicator. (Jazz pianist and mus...

•The ever-continuing series now continues ... Only a day-or-so previously it was that I'd posted a continued item titled "Joseph Tushinsky's Welte-Mignon Roll Changer." Dutifully and helpfully, our Editor included as clarifying reference, a link leading to MMD reader/contributor Richard Stibbons' su...

•Dear roll collectors, I am getting to the age where it is about time for the retirement home and I need to downsize so I am offering my collection of Joseph Tushinsky's Duo-Art roll collection as well as the majority of my own collection -- several thousand rolls. I want to sell it all as one lot. ...

Regarding Tom Steuer's "Tushinsky Music Collection Sold" and Bob and Sonja Lemon's "Junk-Bin Perforator" from MMD, Feb. 26, 1997. > The sad part of this story. The man was a composer and had a stack of > music that was at least a foot high. His niece, who was the > administrator, would not allow us ...

•For Sale: The outstanding reproducing roll collection of the late Joseph Tushinsky was sold to a Japanese buyer in 1988. It was returned to the U.S. and in February was auctioned as the major part of a 10,000 roll offering. We were able to acquire some 5000 Ampico, Duo-Art, and Welte (red) rolls at...

I was one of the lucky ones to get some of the rolls from the Tushinsky music collection sold by Butterfield & Butterfield recently. A friend attended the second day of the auction after hearing of the low bids of the first day and succeeded at getting about 700 of the Duo-Art rolls. The Ampico roll...

•"Planned obsolescence" is fightin' words to engineers! Joe Tushinsky would be angered to hear that said about his pet project, the Marantz Pianocorder, and you shouldn't say that in the company of Yamaha folks, either. The Pianocorder is not obsolete, but it suffers from lack of product support and...

•Back in the late 1970s or early 80s I was in Joseph Tushinsky's home in the Los Angeles area. He showed me the Vorsetzer he owned and explained that it had been built by some people employed by him. Tushinsky purchased from me a Welte License grand piano with a roll changer cabinet, unrestored. He ...