A Moderated Mechanical Music Discussion Group for Collectors, Technicians, Dealers, and Fans
MMD > Archives > Authors > Nicholas Simons


The most recent submissions are listed first. Address supressed for SPAM control purposes. Write to the editor if you need assistance


Digest NrSubject
2025.05.16.02 Seek Snare Drum Heads for Limonaire Organ
2023.09.09.02 Replacing Drive Belts On 1917 Red Welte Piano
2023.04.28.03 Seek Fabricator of Special Threaded Wires
2022.11.14.07 Source of Zephyr Skin Leather in Germany
2022.10.30.01 Stephen Simpson 20-note Crank Organ Rolls
2022.07.18.01 Cylinder Musical Box Tune Sheets
2021.06.06.03 Operators "O" Roll Tracker Bar Scale
2021.05.24.03 Multi-tone Organ Pipes
2021.04.27.02 Scopitone 16mm Sound Movie Machine
2021.01.22.06 Source of Zephyr Skin
2021.01.22.03 Orchestrions With Multiple Clockwork Drives
2020.09.28.01 Seeburg KT Spill Valve Oscillates On Rewind
2020.08.19.01 Sealing a Wood Tracker Bar
2020.05.11.03 Musical Machines In Their Original Settings
2020.02.14.06 QRS Playasax Maintenance
2020.02.10.03 QRS Playasax Maintenance
2019.12.12.02 Alligator Textured Paper for Music Roll Boxes
2019.12.06.02 Recutting Wurlitzer PianOrchestra Rolls
2019.11.02.05 Tempo Compensation Methods
2019.04.15.01 Seeburg Coin Piano Plays Too Loud & Too Fast
2019.02.27.06 Wilcox & White Music Rolls & Tracker Bar Scales
2018.09.10.01 Unusual Tracker Bar on Aeolian Weber Pianola
2018.07.20.05 Scale of Gebr. Weber Player Piano
2018.06.02.02 Philipps Pianella Rolls
2018.05.29.05 Orchestrion In Imhof London Shop
2018.05.28.05 Sanfilippo Imhof & Mukle Orchestrion
2018.05.26.03 Blackpool Imhof & Mukle Orchestrion Recording
2018.04.26.02 Scale for 30-note Piano Melodico
2017.10.22.01 Victoria Organette Bellows Assembly
2017.09.25.04 French Mechanical Horn In 1894 Catalog
2017.09.20.02 Ariston Restoration
2017.08.01.04 Music Rolls for New Zealand Photoplayer
2017.07.23.01 Organ Grinder in 1830s Currier & Ives Print
2017.06.01.08 Lead Tubing in Player Pianos
2017.05.29.03 Lead Tubing Adhesive
2017.05.24.01 Hupfeld Orchestrion Restoration Articles
2016.11.01.02 Restoring the Reproduco Player Action
2016.10.29.02 Mortier Dance Organ Trombones are Too Loud
2016.08.19.02 MBSGB Change of Postal Address
2016.05.23.02 Cylinder for Joseph Schumacher Flute Clock
2016.04.17.01 MIDI for Bob Essex MIDster Control Program
2016.03.26.09 Pallet Adhesive for Concert Roller Organ
2016.03.07.02 Friction in Musical Box Governor Assembly
2016.03.03.04 Source of Weber Unika Music Rolls
2015.11.11.01 Old Crank Reed Organ is Kalliston Organette
2015.06.29.03 International Shipping of Band Organ Rolls
2015.06.10.04 Steck Pianola Key Lock
2015.05.21.03 Source of Weber Unika Roll "La Traviata"
2015.02.12.04 Rebuilding a Cremona G Pump
2015.01.23.06 Music Roll Repair Tape
2015.01.18.02 Source of Zephyr Skin
2014.12.29.07 Link Aviation Trainer
2014.11.27.02 Vinyl Picture Discs by Peter Schuhknecht
2014.11.17.04 Decap Robot Bands in the United Kingdom
2014.07.30.07 Building a Crank-organ Cart
2014.07.02.04 Repairing Hofbauer 20-key Tanzbaer Accordion
2014.04.23.01 Buying Rolls from the USA
2014.03.02.03 "Sound Track", The Toy Train With a Tune
2014.02.22.03 Spool Frame Rewind Motor Speed Problem
2014.02.11.03 The "Beatrice" Steinway Duo-Art
2014.01.30.06 Sealing Leather Pouches
2014.01.29.01 Musical Box Stretched Tuning
2013.10.20.01 Pre-punched Valve Pouches
2013.10.02.01 Passing of Boz Oram
2013.08.04.01 Hupfeld Phonoliszt Expression Piano
2013.05.18.02 "La SeriNET" No. 86 Mechanical Music Videos
2013.03.15.03 Electric Vacuum Motors
2013.03.05.02 Wurlitzer 165 Band Organ Rolls in the UK
2013.02.04.09 50/60 Hz Mains Frequency Converter
2013.02.01.04 Cecilian 13-1/4" Music Rolls by Farrand
2013.01.16.08 Book Music Punch & Die Specification
2012.12.22.03 Replacement Motors for Electric Player Pianos
2012.12.06.01 Source of Strings for Triola Zither
2012.12.04.07 Rebuilding a Hupfeld Player Action
2012.10.19.02 Replacing Player Piano Casters
2012.10.02.04 Orchestrionette on YouTube
2012.09.23.05 Voicing a Violin Pipe
2012.09.20.06 Thin Tosh Rubberized Cloth
2012.09.18.05 Unknown Player In Schrapel Piano May Be Philipps
2012.09.17.03 Philipps Pianella Mandoline (P.M.) Rolls
2012.06.27.02 Modern Duo/Art Player Won't Play Duo-Art Rolls
2012.06.14.03 Source of Felt for Impact Cushioning
2012.06.07.08 Seek Part for Wurlitzer Roll Changer
2012.05.31.01 MBSGB Annual Meeting & Auction Saturday 9th June
2012.03.09.03 Tuning a Keyboardless Orchestrion
2012.01.31.05 Building a Pressure Regulator for an Accordion
2012.01.19.06 Tuning a Xylophone
2012.01.14.02 Controlling Musical Box Acoustics
2011.12.09.03 Meaning of "Brevete"
2011.10.19.03 Starrett Organette Is Probably an Ariston
2011.10.10.03 Repairing Singing Bird Box Bellows
2011.10.09.07 BluesTone 137019 Recut of "Ragtime Oriole"
2011.09.20.06 Zephyr Skin for Singing Bird Box Bellows
2011.08.30.11 Zephyr Skin Pouches
2011.08.29.04 Tuning a 20-key Barrel Organ
2011.08.21.06 How to Tune a Player Piano Out of Tune
2011.07.31.04 Herrburger Brooks Keyboards & Piano Actions
2011.07.27.03 Ivory Piano Keys
2011.07.21.08 Chatterton's Compound for Sealing Lead Tubing
2011.07.19.08 Lead Tubing For Tracker Bar
2011.07.19.07 A Mechanical Music Digest Forum
2011.05.24.06 Hupfeld Theatre Organ
2011.05.24.03 Mechanical Music on YouTube
2011.04.30.02 Value of Push-up Piano Player
2011.03.25.03 Building "Bird Whistle" Singing Bird Pipes
2011.03.20.02 Adapting Arburo Cafe Organ for MIDI Control
2011.03.20.01 Piano Roll Repair Tissue
2011.03.16.01 Sir David Salomons' Welte Player Pipe Organ
2011.03.14.06 Hot Glue vs. PVA and PVC-E
2011.03.11.03 Hot Glue vs. PVA and PVC-E
2011.02.09.08 Regulating the Piano Action to the Player Action
2011.01.15.04 Onion Skin Paper Might Be "Butterfly Tape"
2011.01.14.04 Bellows for Whistler
2011.01.10.05 Suction Regulator Spill Valve Oscillates
2010.12.04.04 Playing the Tanzbaer Player Accordion
2010.11.29.01 Building a Singing Bird Mechanism
2010.11.23.01 Building a Singing Bird Mechanism
2010.11.10.04 58-note Roll QRS 3400 "Hu-la Hu-la Cakewalk"
2010.11.06.01 Seek Pianomation Grand Piano for Film Project
2010.10.17.06 Duo-Art Accordion Expression Pneumatics
2010.09.21.09 Instrument Tuning Device
2010.09.07.05 Seek Tune Card for Pianolin
2010.08.12.01 Herophon Pressure Bar
2010.08.11.04 Punched Paper Music Loops
2010.06.06.03 Robert-Houdin Automaton "Antonio Diavolo"
2010.05.26.01 Music Rolls by Magnus Harmonica Corporation
2010.05.18.01 Seek Ariston Fan Music
2010.05.04.01 Cartel Musical Boxes
2010.04.07.10 Photoplayer Census
2010.03.25.07 Steel for Making a Musical Movement Comb
2010.03.15.03 Keyframe Drive Belt is Slipping
2010.03.13.05 Keyframe Drive Belt is Slipping
2010.03.09.02 Adhesive to Mount Organ Pipes on Wind Chest
2010.02.26.01 20-note Crank Organ Scale
2010.02.25.06 Musical Box Sound Volume is Weak
2010.02.24.04 Hupfeld Phonoliszt Rolls Playing a Phonola System
2010.02.23.12 Tuning the Wurlitzer Automatic Harp
2010.02.23.11 Hupfeld Unioliszt Player Piano
2010.02.23.07 Unknown Control Lever on Symphonion Musical Box
2010.02.22.05 Hupfeld Unioliszt Player Piano
2010.02.09.02 Musical Box Tuning Scale
2010.02.06.02 Unusual Weber Solea Orchestrion on YouTube
2010.01.04.07 Books on Rebuilding a Player Piano & Piano
2009.12.18.03 Musical Box Mark "Lion with Wings" is Ami Rivenc
2009.12.15.06 Source of Square Casters for Grand Piano
2009.12.13.06 Music Rolls for Philipps Pianella
2009.12.13.05 Tiny Snare Drum for Band Organ
2009.12.03.05 Arburo Dance Organ Tracker Bar Layout
2009.12.02.01 Tin Toy Manivelle Music Box Plays Reeds
2009.11.24.08 Meloto Rolls
2009.11.02.08 Dimensions of 72-key Carl Frei Book Music
2009.08.22.04 Threaded Wire for Screw Eye Adjusters
2009.08.09.06 Custom-made Raffin 20-note Rolls
2009.08.09.01 BBC Proms
2009.08.06.02 Hand-cranked Coin Piano Plays Keith Prowse Music
2009.07.04.03 Rolls for "Organita" 14-note Paper Roll Organette
2009.07.02.06 Adjusting Keyframe Transport Rollers
2009.06.20.02 Passing of Marty Roenigk
2009.06.01.04 Sealing Valve Pouches With Rubber Cement
2009.05.06.01 Passing of Anthony Bulleid, MBSGB Author
2009.04.07.05 Seeburg E Nickelodeon Rewind
2009.03.31.02 Early Audio Recordings of Street Pianos
2009.03.24.03 Scale of Rolmonica Harmonica
2009.02.03.02 Blower For Large Street Organ
2008.12.17.11 FS: Story & Clark Orpheus Player Organ
2008.11.04.06 Restoration vs. Conversion
2008.10.31.03 Rolls for Peerless "Wisteria" Orchestrion
2008.09.30.05 How To Make Cardboard Music Discs
2008.09.16.06 Tuning the Organ One Note Lower
2008.05.08.03 10-1/2" Wide Music Roll
2008.04.28.06 Portable Amplifier for Music Box Demonstrations
2008.04.21.03 Barrel Organ Playing on YouTube
2008.02.13.09 Effect of Tracker Bar Hose Length on Repetition
2008.02.13.06 Repairing Stripped Wood Screw Threads
2008.02.04.02 Recording of 98-key Gavioli Organ at Thursford
2007.11.05.04 Composer of "Durch Nacht zum Licht"
2007.11.02.08 Troublesome Pipe in Busker Organ
2007.09.30.02 10-tune 'A' Rolls of Scott Joplin Rags
2007.09.23.05 Red Welte Rolls "Available"
2007.09.10.04 48-key Organ Music in Europe
2007.09.08.01 Key System Book Music Reader Pictures
2007.08.19.02 Playasax Disassembly
2007.08.04.04 Rolls of Chopin's Op. 49, Fantasie Brilliante
2007.03.16.13 Regina Sublima Piano Motor Pulley
2007.03.07.02 33-key Ruth Fraud on eBay
2007.02.04.05 Making Trumpet Pipes With Free Reeds
2006.11.21.10 Calculations for Metallophone Bars
2006.11.16.03 Self-playing Harpsichord
2006.11.09.03 Seek Rob DeLand
2006.10.29.03 Scale of Tanzbaer 16-note Player Accordion
2006.09.13.02 Ehrlich's Musik Automat
2006.08.28.01 Mid-size Pedal Player Organs
2006.07.15.01 Book "Leginska - Forgotten Genius of Music"
2006.07.07.06 Scale of 28-note Tanzbaer Player Accordion
2006.07.07.05 Source of Colloidal Graphite
2006.07.07.02 Storing Music Rolls
2006.06.04.01 Prices Realized - Gerald Stonehill Collection
2006.05.25.01 Cushion Pouches of Zephyr Skin & "Gold Fleece"
2006.05.17.09 Hupfeld "Clavitist" Fallboard Decal
2006.05.17.08 Aeolian Vibrations and the Stockbridge Damper
2006.05.17.01 Herbert Slack Gavioli at Crich Tramway Museum
2006.04.12.10 Mech. Music Terms: Keyframe Pressure Device
2006.04.12.02 Imhof & Mukle Orchestrion at Birmingham Museum
2006.02.05.10 Counter-Melody & the Wurlitzer Trumpet Division
2006.02.05.04 Replacement Comb for Musical Box
2006.01.22.09 Restoring a Celestina Organette
2006.01.21.04 Archival Media For Digital Data
2005.11.14.04 Rewinding Player Piano Motor for European Mains
2005.11.09.04 Photos of Ed Freyer
2005.10.19.05 Sending Money Abroad
2005.10.18.01 Value of Triola Roll-Playing Zither
2005.09.26.03 Organ Enthusiasts' Day, Stowmarket, 2 Oct 2005
2005.07.17.02 Player Piano Keys Don't Move
2005.06.07.07 Fussell Accordion Band
2005.04.15.09 Pneumatic Bleeds in Keyless Player Organs
2005.04.05.06 Rebuilding Aeolian Grand Player Organ Pneumatics
2005.03.17.08 Adding Pipes to "O" Roll Orchestrion
2005.01.26.13 Sealing Bellows Leaks
2005.01.20.09 Dial Test Indicator for Valve Regulation
2004.12.20.09 Estimating Tracker Bar Tubing Needed
2004.09.11.01 Melodian Paper Strip Music Box
2004.09.10.06 Using a Template to Punch Book Music
2004.08.17.02 Thomas Jansen, Musikwerkstatt Monschau
2004.07.29.04 Recut Music Rolls by Thomas Jansen
2004.07.17.01 Organ Pipe Pitch vs. Air Temperature
2004.07.13.01 Player Bagpipes
2004.07.12.17 Key Lock Device in Upright Player Pianos
2004.07.11.02 Mechanical Music Toys in "The Organette Book"
2004.07.05.03 Tomy Tuneyville Player Pipe Organ Musical Box Toys
2004.07.03.02 Tuneyville Player Pipe Organ Musical Box Toys
2004.06.24.06 Repairing Tanzbar Player Accordion Rolls
2004.05.06.07 10-3/8" Wide Music Rolls With Wood Flanges
2004.05.01.16 Stripped Screw Holes in Wood
2004.05.01.06 Optimising Hand-Cranked Organ Feeders
2004.04.29.07 Vacuum Transducer for Motor Speed Control
2004.04.29.03 Optimising Hand-Cranked Organ Feeders
2004.04.20.05 Welte Cottage Orchestrion at Disneyland
2004.02.22.07 James Watt & Watt's Linkage
2004.02.20.10 Deal Softwood
2004.02.20.05 James Watt & Watt's Linkage
2004.02.03.04 Earthing or Grounding?
2004.02.01.11 Earthing Electric Motors in Pianos
2004.01.13.05 Restoring an Organette
2004.01.10.05 Source of Rosewood in UK
2004.01.05.06 How To Move a Piano
2003.11.20.13 Decap Dance Organ Pump Speed
2003.11.19.15 Decap Dance Organ Pump Speed
2003.11.04.09 Converting Instruments to Play Different Media
2003.10.27.01 Gavioli 48-key "Orgue a Trombone" & Mon Corvi
2003.10.12.01 Lustspiel Comedy Overture
2003.10.09.10 Lustspiel Comedy Overtures by Bela-Keler
2003.10.07.04 Unknown Overture Heard on 38er Voigt Concert Organ
2003.09.19.01 Mikado Polyphon From Harold Smith Collection
2003.09.08.03 Source of Arburo Rolls
2003.09.07.04 Liszt "Annees de Pelerinage" on Hupfeld Rolls
2003.09.07.02 Book "Player Piano" by Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume
2003.08.01.04 Use Leather Where Originally Used
2003.07.30.09 Use Leather for Long Life
2003.07.28.08 Sealing Leather
2003.06.26.06 Poppers Konzertist Piano
2003.06.25.01 Singing Bird Musical Box by Freres Rochat
2003.06.20.07 Cutting Grooves for Organ Pipe Tuning Slide
2003.06.17.07 Mechanical Music in London
2003.06.12.05 Replacing Organette Reeds
2003.06.11.11 Exhauster & Reserve Bellows of Organette
2003.05.19.02 Conversion of Original Instruments
2003.05.12.07 Unusual Flap Valves
2003.05.06.07 Duo-Art System Engineering
2003.05.03.05 Duo-Art System Engineering
2003.03.29.06 Andersson 18-Note Piano-Harpa Scale
2003.03.05.04 Piano Rolls With Square Drive Hole in Flange
2003.03.02.08 Quality of Thin Tosh Rubberized Cloth
2003.02.26.01 "Testophone" Musical Car Horn
2003.01.23.15 FS: Book "The Fairground Organ" by Eric Cockayne
2003.01.17.02 Music Roll Has Center Sprocket Holes - Hupfeld
2003.01.05.10 QRS Story & Clark Self-Tuning Piano System
2002.12.18.22 Springs Inside Kastner Pedal Bellows
2002.12.18.17 Single or Double Valves in Street Organs
2002.12.02.07 Asbestos in Player Piano
2002.11.09.03 Speed of Triola Music Roll
2002.10.11.05 Source of Backed and Stitched Damper Felt
2002.07.17.09 Royalties for Automatic Music in Public
2002.07.04.04 Unusual Steck Tracker Bar
2002.05.30.09 Technically Dead! Mrs. Tuttle is Alive and Well
2002.05.28.01 Harold Smith Collection Auction - Prices Paid
2002.05.18.01 Marks on Triola Zither Rolls & Correct Playing
2002.05.17.02 Marks on Triola Zither Rolls & Correct Playing
2002.04.14.01 Harold Smith Collection For Sale At Auction
2002.03.30.03 Tuning Jazz Flute Rank
2002.02.24.02 Euphonium Player Reed Organette
2002.02.19.09 Rolmonica Player Harmonica
2002.01.27.08 Hupfeld DEA Music Rolls Recut by Thomas Jansen
2002.01.26.08 Hupfeld DEA & Rolls for Dienst Player Mechanism
2001.12.22.04 Converting Orchestrelle to Play 88-Note Rolls
2001.12.22.02 Tuning of Old Square Grand Piano
2001.12.02.02 Keytop Organ Player by Maestro Co., Elbridge, NY
2001.10.29.12 Seek Supplier of Lead Tubing
2001.10.02.11 FS: Arburo Dance Organ in UK
2001.09.10.08 QRS Organ Rolls for Storey & Clarke Organs
2001.09.09.12 Engineering Units Of Pressure
2001.08.24.14 FS: Triumph Auto-Piano 88-Note Player in England
2001.08.16.08 Seek Round Flexible Drive Belting
2001.05.27.03 Seek Arburo Rolls
2001.05.20.06 Tempo of Scott Joplin Rags
Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation
No PayPal account required
SSL Certificate
by
Let's Encrypt