I am a member of MBSI and MBSGB.  Was an early member of AMICA and The Reed
Organ Society.  In the process of renewing my membership with AMICA.  My
main interest is in organettes and small roll playing instruments.  I also
have an Ampico A upright, Tanzbar player accordions and music boxes.

In 1979 I developed a numerically controlled punch with interchangeable punch
heads so that I could reproduce music for organettes and other instruments
like it was originally made.  I also constructed a number of different size
tracker bars with photo diodes for copying the old music.  I assembled my
computer from a kit (Cromemco Z2D) that had 64 KB of memory and a Z80)
processor.  Since MIDI was not yet a standard, I developed my own format
for saving roll information, programs to edit the data and programs to punch
new music.  The computer also contained six sound cards from SSM (one voice
/ board) on which the recorded music could be played.  A keyboard was also
interfaced to the computer for direct recording of music.
Times and computers have changed.  I am currently porting all of the
programs over to a PC system and all of the song files are being converted
to MIDI.

I have gone over all of the old messages to Jody and have found some useful
information.  As soon as I get a chance I will try and pick up on some
broken threads.

Ed Schmidt