Recently I was contacted by an MMDer acknowledging their appreciation
for the work I did on the instruments at Disneyland.  From 1974 till
about 1985 I worked on the Disneyland collection.  The Nelson-Wiggen
6X, installed in March of 1976, was the third instrument I "restored."
(By the way, I covered the stack pneumatics with Bilon back then and
they are still playing today!)

This video is a song on the same roll from 1976.  This roll has played
on the Nelson-Wiggen 6X for over 35 years!  I really like this roll so
I recorded all of the songs on this roll and we are looking at having
the roll recut.  Here is a link to my latest video of the Disneyland
Nelson Wiggen 6X:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqdZIUQs9oU&sns=em 

I have wondered for a long time, how many (if any) MMDers became
interested because of the machines at Disneyland in the 1970s and
'80s.  At one point I had the Nelson-Wiggen, a Seeburg upright piano,
a Symphonion disk music box and a Mills Violano together in a music
room in the Market House.  That room went away in 1987.

Dave Allan

 [ The tune playing is "Alabama Stomp, by Henry Creamer & Jimmy
 [ Johnson, as featured in Earl Carroll's Vanities, 5th edition, 1926".
 [ The coin piano arrangement is derived from 88-note roll Capitol
 [ 1584, October 1926, played by James Blythe.  -- Robbie