Hi, my name is Steven Phelps and I am writing on my wife's (Leslie
Anne) PC.  My computer skills are very limited.

I have an old Baldwin piano, #17917.  It is an upright player that
sadly has had its mechanism removed.  I am hoping to identify what was
in it and find a replacement.  Some of the members of this list are
assisting me now in that endeavor.

I recently returned from Santa Cruz CA.  While there I had the chance
to see and hear an 1894 Ruth and Sohn carousel player.  Wow!  I took
some video of it in action and it is great fun to play back.  I wonder
if anyone has some better recordings of carousel music?  That experi-
ence and a relative's Pianola player have inspired me to get going on
this Baldwin!

I live in Vero Beach FL.  I have traveled to the Lightner museum
several times to hear some of the great mechanical music there.  They
play them everyday but I am sorry I do not have the names of them.
One is a punch board orchestrion, an organ grinder type, and several
others of various designs representing early mechanical music.

It's a very small museum and anyone coming to Florida should see it
at St. Augustine.  I believe the machines are played twice each day,
at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM.

I would appreciate hearing from other Baldwin owners, and anyone else
that cares, too!   Thank you for this list!

Steven and Leslie Anne Phelps

 [ Welcome to MMD, Steven.  We recently updated our big list of firms
 [ which sell items for mechanical musical instruments, and the list
 [ includes several vendors of music rolls, music box discs, books
 [ and audio recordings.  Please visit our main web page and then the
 [ MMD Sources page at
 [    http://mmd.foxtail.com/  and  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Sources/
 [ You can also read more about the organ you saw in Santa Cruz.
 [ Go to the Archives page and search for "Ruth" and "Santa Cruz" and
 [ "Carousel".  Happy browsing!   -- Robbie