•We have a large warehouse full of many kinds of mechanical music parts and rolls. These will be posted for sale on eBay at a rapid rate over the next couple years, in the category "piano rolls". Please search for us in the advance search tab on the far right, enter "alphawolfuno" in the seller's na...

•I'm looking for some brass trumpets and trombones for a large band organ. If you know anyone that has any let me know. Does anyone have a number for Alan Erb? Galen Bird tel.: 1-816-392-6444 ogmbird@hotmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] [ Found in the Resource Registry of AMICA Bulle...

•As my current player restoration project grinds along, Arthur Reblitz's player piano book is my constant companion. While waiting for some glue to set, I re-read the author's biography, which makes reference to a "National Geographic television special, 'Treasures from the Past.'" On a whim, I chec...

•When editing yesterday's 18.05.23 MMD, I was floored to learn from Ian Gillis' posting "Treasures From The Past" that the well-known carousel horse restorer Will Morton had died. I was also saddened to find that Will's death just a half year ago went unnoticed by the MMD, although he was only perip...

Hi All. Since my good friend Matt Caulfield invites me to write, here's some additional information on the 3 known examples of the Style 155 organ. [ Gosh, Bill, write us _anytime_ ! -- Robbie ] My 155 was located in a skating rink, and it has no original case, just a chassis, since it was built int...

[ Editors note: [ [ I spoke with Gordy by 'phone today and asked him to describe [ his organ projects. The conversation and his follow-up letter to me [ are quite interesting, presented here somewhat edited. [ [ Robbie Rhodes My Wurlitzer Style 155 "Monster" is actually the first one, and was built...

Dear friends of the Mechanical Music Digest, Sorry for my bad English -- I'll try to give my best version. For us (Waldkircher Orgelbau Jaeger and Brommer) the possibilities to get in contact with new friends of the Mechanical Music Instruments are just new. First, I will give a short information ab...

•The composer of the movie music used in Our Gang, Charlie Chase, Laurel & Hardy and some other Hal Roach cinema comedies of the thirties was LeRoy Shields. The Dutch combo, Beau Hunks has reconstructed the sheet music for these and recorded them using "Little Rascals" prominently in the title. The ...

•Robbie, You had to put in that part about warm, sunny California? We have had a gray winter: rain, rain, and more rain, and record snow levels in the mountains. The carousel is doing fine -- a wedding reception was held there last Saturday night. Isn't that appropriate for the "wedding carousel"?! ...

•Hi. I have been looking through some rolls in my collection and wonder if anyone can help me identify the tunes and pianist of a couple of rolls. The first roll is QRS Automatic. The roll number may either be 100218 or it may be 100213; I cannot make out the last number. It is a fox trot medley for...

•Last year I purchased a Seeburg "L" that had seen better days. Aside from damage incurred in the move, the poor thing suffered water damage and much abuse from a series of "repairs" carried out by a collection of folks, unskilled physically and mentally. After a long search, I luckily found Bob Bil...

•Dear Group, Craig Smith's lamentations concerning inaccurate or misleading descriptions of (in this case) a music box and other like ads on eBay are echoed by myself and no doubt many others. The Internet auction house is a very new and therefore unusual way of bidding for the purpose of obtaining ...

•Andrew Barrett's posting to yesterday's MMDigest leads one to think that all is not well with the publicly operating band organ. To an extent that is true, but there are exceptions. THREE CHEERS for Charles Canfield, Hayes McClaran, Tim Trager, and everyone else who had a part in getting the old Pl...

•Hi All, I've heard of only one instance where, after the instrument was strung, the plate cracked in an area other than near the tuning pins. And, I had one instance where the plate cracked in the area of the tuning pins _while_ the instrument was being strung. In the second case, I took the plate ...

•Vic Searle asked about the Wurlitzer Style 155 "Monster" band organ (090308 MMD). This early organ (two of the three surviving examples were actually built by DeKleist) plays its own 100-key Style 155 roll. The earliest "Monster" is the one for which Marty Roenigk is seeking more rolls (090307 MMD)...

•David Kelzenberg asserts in MMD 111110 that Wurlitzer style 150 arrangements are often lacking while style 125 arrangements are sometimes more interesting than even style 165 arrangements of the same tunes. It's certainly true that the style 150 scale is pretty limited, but these rolls do have thei...

•As noted in an earlier MMD posting [130922 MMDigest], Harry Garrison passed away Thursday, September 19, 2013 at the age of 77. The impression left in that MMD posting was that Harry's funeral was last weekend. That was incorrect, his funeral is this weekend per Harry's son, Marshall Garrison: Frid...

•[ Ref. Bill Koenigsberg in 160117 MMDigest -- Bill, I have two Duo-Art test rolls: 1. Test Roll #3 1927, a recut from Frank Adams, was purchased circa 1977. The leader explains (via Frank) that the test roll it was created to accompany the Duo-Art Audiographic rolls. That test roll has extensive se...

•Because the Ampico spinet piano was only 36.5" tall, the American Piano Company (APC) was faced with severely limited space within which to incorporate a conventional box-type vacuum pump (16" X 16" X 8" without distributor block). Consequently, APC utilized a smaller pump (15" X 9" [max, min 3.5"]...

•[ Ref. Glenn Thomas in 190522 MMDigest ] "Good news everyone," as Futurama's Professor Farnsworth would've said! The first set of brand new Wurlitzer 165 rolls arranged by contemporary arrangers Andy Park and Mikey Mills have been released (including my third roll which I myself commissioned is num...