Greetings to MMD from Dave Saul.  I'm a retired electronics engineer
(microwave/millimeter wave hardware and systems).  My involvement with
mechanical music goes back about 35 years.  I've been a member of AMICA
since 1969.  My contributions to the print media are mostly out of print
now; the most widely disseminated was probably the section that I put
together on reproducing pianos for Dave Bowers' Encyclopedia of Automatic
Musical Instruments in 1972.  (Can it be 25 years ago already?)

The learning process, of course, never ceases and I welcome this MMD
forum enthusiastically!  I've been aware of MMD for some time.  (Jody is
"local" to those of us in the greater San Diego area, and I first met
Robbie Rhodes at the 1973 AMICA Convention in Los Angeles.)

I've been receiving copies of the digest on disk, thanks to the
generosity of Ron Perry, with whom I had the pleasure of working at the
Navy Lab in San Diego before I retired.  The opportunity to participate
in MMD was high on the list of enticements that motivated me to acquire
Internet capability.

Dave Saul

 [ Welcome, Dave, and I'm glad that you finally made it to the Internet,
 [ "kicking and screaming", as you confided to me !  Ah well, once little
 [ boys are in the bath water they love it !
 [
 [ The rest of your letter appears elsewhere in this Digest; with auto-
 [ matic-subject-retrieval capability nearing I'm now splitting mail into
 [ articles of usually one topic.  So write often!  -- Robbie