In 990519 MMDigest Philippe Rouille wrote about a CD-ROM about mechan-
ical musical instruments and their music.  This CD-ROM was compiled by
the musicologist Christoph Reuter with assistance of the Gesellschaft
fuer Selbstspielende Musikinstrumente (GSM), the German Society for
Selfplaying Instruments, and several important collectors.  Now -- a
first announcement:

  Imagine a book in which you will find everything you ever wanted
  to know about mechanical musical instruments.  Such a book would
  contain more than 800 colour pictures and several hundred pages of
  text.  In addition, it would contain 116 sound examples, 60 videos
  and animations, various search functions, a bibliography of more
  than 500 titles, a glossary of about 2,000 entries, etc.

  You have certainly guessed by now that we are talking about a
  CD-ROM which will be available soon.  The publishing house Schott
  Musik International (winner of the digital award 1998 for the CD-ROM
  "Paul Hindemith Life and Work") has attended to this project and
  will soon release the CD-ROM "Dictionary of Mechanical Musical
  Instruments" in German and English -- the hitherto most comprehensive
  work on the subject of mechanical musical instruments.

  Contact:

  Schott Musik International GmbH & Co. KG
  Weihergarten 5
  55116 Mainz
  Fax: 0 61 31/24 68 61
  eMail: natascha.becker@schott-musik.de

Juergen Hocker