Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info
MMD > Archives > October 1997 > 1997.10.03 > 01Prev  Next


Introducing Myself
By John Winn

Hi readers,  Just to introduce myself as a new reader of the Digest.

My name is John Winn.  I live in Upminster, Essex, England, on the
extreme eastern outskirts of London.  If you have a map of the London
Underground system you can see us at the end of the green District Line.

I am interested in fairground organs, as well as both classical and
theatre organs.

I own an Adolf Ernst Voigt upright player piano that was made in Germany
in the 1920s.  It is working (just) but needs a few leaks attending to,
though I did recover the main feeders a few years ago.

My father purchased the piano about 50 years ago.  At that time he was a
meter reader for the local electricity supply company, and he came upon
this house with a very large piano stuck in the hall.  It turned out they
had just inherited it.  He sat down and played it and very soon bought
it.

To get it into the house we had to strip it down to the bare essentials
to get it through the doorways, and having had some building work done
since then, there is no way we could get it out if we wanted to.

There are quite a number of rolls, and it was obviously somewhere where
there were some American servicemen during the war, as the more patriotic
American rolls are very severely worn!

My computer room is a Micro$oft free zone, having two Amiga computers
that are used for video work, DTP, Internet, music and playing games.

I am looking forward to learning more about the Digest.

John Winn
Upminster, England

 [ "Viva la Amiga!" John, and welcome to MMD.  We have several
 [ subscribers here who are active with player piano and player
 [ organ societies in England; I hope you will get acquainted
 [ with them, too!  Thanks for writing.  -- Robbie


(Message sent Fri 3 Oct 1997, 21:43:46 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

Key Words in Subject:  Introducing, Myself

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page