Yesterday, Robbie Rhodes wrote:

>  How can we play a Midi file of nifty band organ music
> into a synthesizer and get the sound of a real, live WurliTzer 165 or
> 92-key Ruth organ, or whatever?

I've wondered if it would be possible to make a band organ patch.  The
soundcard on my PC is an Gravis UltraSound Max.   The UltraSound card is a
wave table card that loads it's instrument "patches" from disk files.   The
board was bundled with software called "Patch Maker Lite" that lets you
create your own instrument patches.   If you can get .WAV samples of a few
notes from the instrument in question, you can then load those into patch
maker, and it will create a patch that can be used with the sound card.  You
can create a patch quickly by sampling one note from every few octaves, or
create a very complicated patch by sampling every single note.  The thing I
find very nice is that I can specify that Middle C (midi note 60) should
come equally out of both speakers, High C (note 72) should be 65% from the
right speaker and 35% from the left speaker, and  note 84 should be 90% from
the right speaker and 10% from the left speaker.  This allows me to
re-create the sound one would hear if pumping a player piano.  There are
also a number of settings where you can control the reverb, etc.  for each
note or section of notes.  It would be interesting to collect a few .WAV
samples of a real, live Wurlitzer 165 and to see how well Patch Maker can
recreate the sound.

 --Bill Jelen