Hi, Jody.  I wrote to Netherlands asking if someone could correspond
with us.  I got this reply yesterday.  -- Rob

's-Gravenzande, 17 april 1996

Dear Mr. Rhodes,

I received your letter to Jan van Dinteren today.  He asked me to
respond, because his knowledge of computers is next to nil.  Besides
that, as secretary of the Board I do most of the correspondence.

We think that your Internet Group is a very good idea.  We should stick
together as lovers of those ancient music computers with their
wonderful technology!  Our "Kring van Draaiorgelvrienden" has no
connection with the WWW yet.  Within a short time, however, I will have
my own E-mail address on the Net.  I will send an E-mail to you and
Jody as soon as I know this address.  By then, you can reach our club
there.

I will write a short redactional in our bulletin, "Het Pierement", so
the members of the K.D.V. know how to reach you and Jody.  The
addresses of other clubs in Europe you can find in our latest magazine
(April 1996).  I hope that you get many lovers of automatic music on
the net.

A surprise!  I have succeeded to get my dear colleague, friend and
co-member of the Board, Tom Meijer, computerized!  The Dutch "noteurs"
have agreed to a standard MIDI-file for automatic Musical Instruments
with which we all work.  Tom is using it, too.  We work on
MS-DOS-compatible machines with Cakewalk Pro for Windows, and we have
made programs to convert sounds of these machine in our computers.  Tom
has abandoned his pencil and paper at last!  He sends you his
greetings.

I hope that you hear a lot from Europe in a short time.  Till
E-mailing!

sincerely,

Hans van Oost, general secretary of the KDV¶
Naaldwijkseweg 262¶
2691 PW  's-Gravenzande¶
tel. 0174-414538