Forwarded Message: • From: dvolkmer@zeta.org.au To: ALL Orig: MBNET Subj: tunit104.zip - TUNE!IT: M Area: 4-s.msdos.announce Date: 07/18/95 ============================================================================ •I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), (available...

Howdy, Fritz Gellerman, and welcome aboard. I share your interest in xylophones and the "melodic percussion" instruments. The "cut up" on the back side of bar resonators serves these purposes: 1. To tune the fundamental (by grinding the pitch lower). 2. To help bring the most prominent overtone into...

Robbie Rhodes: Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm presently making a set of bells for my North Tonawanda band organ, which plays Wurlitzer 150 rolls. The bells on the Wurlitzer organs are struck at the ends, as are the organs made by Don Stinson. There is a dissonant transient produced when the bell ...

Hi gang, I hope Nancy and Chuck Walker both respond to the question about tuning music box combs. And you are certainly right about the "don't attempt this at home" unless you really want to experiment with a music box you don't want to save. The first point I'd like to make is that the music boxes ...

Beatrice's note on tuning of music boxes was very interesting. I would love to hear more. Or perhaps someone could refer me to a technical music box restoration book? My wife, Rosanne heard them at the Bound Brook, NJ show and love them. Our 10th anniversary is coming, and I'm looking for one as a g...

Following is the description of the tuning procedure for a Style 150 band organ taken from a manual (or pamphlet -- 4 pages) entitled "Directions for the Operation of the Military Band Organ" by the Wurlitzer Co. - - - - "INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUNING MILITARY BAND ORGANS¶ Styles No. 147, 148, 149 and 150...

•Dear Jim, Considering that you work with Olin, I'm sure you have tried this approach on your bell box in regard to tuning. However, I'd like to mention it to the group. I have found basic music theory is a big help when tuning a box that has a totally unknown musical scale. The Bach Chorales that w...

•Jody said: "I'd like to encourage others to write in about the Violano." In my recent article about Player Piano Company, I mentioned the Violano Virtuoso there, and that the violin is badly out of tune. I was told that Durrell would like to have it tuned, but he wants it done without removing it f...

•The Violanos all tune differently, depending on the strings used. We are not talking "slight differences," either. I have tried strings that would not tune with a can completely full of shot. Durrell's Violano needs a lot of work, and it isn't just a matter of "tuning" that violin. That violano nee...

•My piano tuner -- who is not 'anti-player', but still regards them a little suspiciously -- has an excellent solution to dropped tuner's wedges. A length of thin string, looped through a small hole in the wedge and tied to something on the piano can save a lot of hassle. K*I*S*S [ "Keep It Simple, ...

•Hi friends, To all who wrote to me on 1-22 and 1-23, I apologize for no answer. Again a power failure wiped out everything including today's Digest. Please write again. Also vanished was an article about to be sent regarding the Wurlitzer 165 and my tuning experiences with it. Here is a replacement...

•All of this is stenciled on the piano plate above the tuning pins...BUT sometimes it is blurred and you cannot read it... From the bass end starting in the octave below tenor C. 5 Bass: G, A, B, D, E 20 Doubles (strings that is): A, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, G, G#, A B, C, C#,D, D#, E, F, G, G# 7 tric...

•Hi all It was interesting to hear of Bruce Clark's problem with noise distraction [MMDigest 980329]. When I was at Newark College learning to tune, each student was allocated a _very_ small booth containing a strung back and a piano. There were about 16 of these booths in an intimate, but somewhat ...

•The most complete listing of tuning scales for disc musical boxes can be found in "The Musical Box Handbook, Vol. 2, Disc Boxes" by Graham Webb, Published by The Vestal Press. I believe Nancy Fratti may still have this available for purchase. If not, someone out here might have a spare copy that co...

•The Violanos made after 1916-17 should be tuned to A=440 cps [Hz]. Most of those earlier ones also should be tuned to A=440 cps. Having worked on nearly four dozen of these machines and owning six of them myself over the years, I have found the A=440 cps tuning as advised by the Mills Violano Virtu...

•Hi -- Regarding Al Menashe's question about the tuning weights on a Violano. If the weight cans are loaded with lead shot and once the violin is in reasonable tune you can add or subtract shot until the weight adjustment is mid-way on the weight-arm tail screw. Mike Kitner

•Matthew Caulfield asked: > Are these designed solely for use in tuning stringed instruments or > could they equally well tune wind-blown instruments (band organs)? > Or is the nature of the band organ forgiving enough that investment > in such high-tech and capable tuning instruments is a waste of ...

•Hi, Alan: In MMDigest 98110 you asked for recommendations for a good ETA that can be used for tuning the comb of a music box. I use a Korg AT-1 AutoTuner with a contact mike; mine is a Performance Plus model AIT-1, made for acoustic instruments like guitars. Attach it to the comb with double-sided ...

•Matthew Caulfield asked: > Are these designed solely for use in tuning stringed instruments or > could they equally well tune wind-blown instruments (band organs)? > Or is the nature of the band organ forgiving enough that investment > in such high-tech and capable tuning instruments is a waste of ...

•Re Matt Caulfield's post; Matt, I have a Sanderson Accutuner that I use for all organs: pipe-, band-, electronic-, etc. It works _great_. The newer Conn Strobotuners (i.e. ST11 models) can do an okay job. Steer clear of the around $100.00 tuners at the music stores: they are not much good. A used C...