Dear friends of mechanical music, I'd like to announce that "Das 
Mechanische Musikinstrument" Vol. 140, Journal of the German association 
"Gesellschaft für Selbstspielende Musikinstrumente e.V." (GSM), is on 
its way to our members and I'm happy to give you a short overview of 
that volume.

The 140th edition consists of 84 pages. For all friends of pianolas 
and orchestrions, you'll find an article by Hans-W. Schmitz about the
cooperation of the firms of M. Welte & Söhne with the Leipzig-based firm
of Popper & Co. -- really a profound research about how this cooperation
finally came to an end because of differences about marketing and prices
between both. 

Claudia Nauheim shows the results in her in-depth research on the German 
pianist Oswin Keller with all of the roll material he produced during 
his lifetime for Hupfeld but also many other German-based companies. 
Maybe this will give you a chance to identify some of the rolls in your 
own collections.

I'm very proud that finally Museum Speelklok fulfilled their promise to 
give an overview about the restauration of the clock- and pipe-work of 
the so-called "Braamcamp Clock" with lots of aspects to this masterpiece 
by the London-based clockmaker Charles Clay. I personally contribute 
with an article on how to date and find out about an nearly unknown 
maker of small barrel organs with the name of Bufe at Gera, which were 
sold by Spaethe, another firm based in that German town. Daniel Becki 
did a small research about a text for barrel organ he found in a novel 
by Fanny Reventlow.

Our Belgian friends of mechanical music had one of the best ideas to 
find an alternative for their New Year's reception which they called the 
COVID Concert 2021 and which is still available on YouTube. I recommend 
this to you for watching and listening if you not already have done so;
this was also announced in MMD some time ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm87jsomfKA 

As usual you'll find short summaries of the contents of international
journals.

Link to the article chosen for publication on our Website:
https://www.musica-mechanica.de/media/PDF/Kooperation_Popper_Welte.pdf 

The board of our association, co-editor Walter Tenten and I wish you 
all a better year for our hobby under better conditions! Stay healthy!

Uwe Gernert - Editor, Das Mechanische Musikinstrument
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