The AMICA Bulletin is working on a major reference article on MIDI
for a forthcoming issue.  This electronic technology is becoming
increasingly important for preservation of piano rolls, nickelodeon,
orchestrion, and band organ rolls, other mechanical music disks or
original playing mechanisms, and as a way to drive or play these
instruments.

Further, AMICA believes that mechanical music's future and encouraging
new generations of enthusiasts is partially tied to embracing newer
technologies like MIDI with which millennials and others may be more
familiar, comfortable, and open.

The article intends to cover MIDI's background, hardware, software,
preserving and writing new music on MIDI, musical instruments playing
and converted to MIDI, and a resource directory of products and
technicians involved in the technology.

I am looking for MIDI users, providers of hardware, software,
restoration or other services, as well as scholarly advice and
information to contribute to this article.  I have reached out to
many who I believe would be potential contributors, but if you did not
receive an email from me and would like to contribute, please do so.
Also, if you are provider of MIDI services and would like to be listed
in the issue's MIDI resource directory.

To meet a planned publication schedule, I would like to hear from you
by January 1, 2019.

You are welcome to contribute even if you are not an AMICA member.
You might even want to join AMICA to be a recipient of this and other
informative content and articles!

Glenn Thomas
The AMICA Bulletin - editor and publisher
http://www.amica.org/ 
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