I want to thank Robbie for his helpful advice in MMD 001113 on how to
save Sound Gallery MIDI files to a floppy disk.  Your hints worked
perfectly, Robbie.  So I carted home Spencer Chase's file of the
"Concert Arabesque on the Blue Danube" by Strauss.  My son had
downloaded this onto his computer a couple of years ago but I lost it
when he moved to Holland.  It was great to hear it again.

However; what had me sitting back with my eyes shut and a silly smile
on my face were the two files from Paul Manganaro of two Ampico rolls,
L'amour-Toujours L'amour played by Adam Carroll and Queen High
Selections played by Fairchild and Rainger.  How on earth all that
brilliant playing can be fitted into 16 kb and 44 kb is beyond me.

Finally I had a listen to Horst Mohr's files of Saint Saens' Concerto
Op. 22 in G minor played by Wittgenstein.  Great stuff, but why did I
think I was listening to a pipe organ?  I decided it must have been an
organ concerto because it really sounded convincing, even having the
sort of puffing sounds lower register pipes make when they are sounded
only briefly.  (I'm sticking my neck out here.)

But when I checked at work this morning, I see that the files are taken
from Ampico rolls.  I know of Duo-Art pipe organs, but Ampico ones?
I don't think so.  And anyway, Groves' Encyclopedia of Music states
that Op. 22 is for piano and orchestra.

So the computer dunce strikes again.

John Phillips in Hobart, Tasmania.

 [ The sound card stores the last voice it played, and that setting
 [ continues until changed by a "Program Change" event in the MIDI
 [ file.  If you (1) launch the MIDI player program, (2) open and
 [ play a little of the "Concert Arabesque", then the piano voice
 [ should continue when you open and play the Saint Saens Concerto.
 [ -- Robbie