•I am interested in anything having to do with the Link Piano and Organ Company and its predecessor, the Automatic Musical Company. Let me know if you have rolls (RX), parts, literature, pictures or whatever. Bob Stewart Denton, Texas

Hi all,¶ I was interested in Robert Hopps note about his new web page http://www.quercus-hopp.com as I have just started to put my musical instruments and musical boxes on a web page http://www.litter-boss.co.uk/antique Like Roberts, mine is just starting and at the time of writing, I still havent s...

•I have updated my Player Piano & Mechanical Music Exchange Site web site and added several new links which are listed below. Many fine MIDI files and other music formats are available from the following three web sites: John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library: http://members.aol.com/ragtimers/index.html...

•Hi all, I'm trying to put parts back inside a piano that once had them; specifically, a Steinway Duo-Art XR. This is the older model with cross valves, 88 notes and the round knob lever. Actually my problems haven't really begun yet, but I know that there is a spider web of levers and attachments t...

•I am trying to help an associate find a linkage for a Bush and Lane player piano. If anybody would have anything around I would appreciate learning of such and possibly acquiring for my friend. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Del Urry

•Does anyone have a drawing of the bottom part of an H.C. Bay upright player? The actual piano brand in Volmer. I am restoring one and I think some linkage is missing. The piano was in bad shape when the customer brought it to me and I have already had to make some parts. The problem I am having is ...

In Digest 970114 Robbie Rhodes writes: > The Link nickelodeon operated from an endless music roll. When the > nickels were collected and the music was changed, the operator would > locate the splice to separate the end from the beginning of the roll, > and then wind it carefully on a core for storag...

No, no, no, Robbie! You got that Link business all wrong! You don't separate the ends of a Link roll to change it. You insert a device which I can only describe as a 2-pronged fork, like a tuning fork, with one tine on either side of the roll, then turn the handle on the end. There's a flange betwee...

>[ After installing the new roll the operator anxiously asked me, >[ "Does the music sound okay?" (!) Thanks, Bob and Rob, for >[ explaining how it _should_ be done. -- Robbie Amateur, n. [Fr. < L. < amore, to love], 1. a person who does something for the pleasure of it rather than for money; nonpro...

In November, 1984, I received a brief announcement from Chuck Sorensen, of Buellton, CA, about Link and Wurlitzer arrangements transcribed to 88-note formats. I wonder if Sorensen's activity had anything to do with the Link "RX" project by Lyle Martin, which resulted in some very expres- sive arrang...

•Hi All, Another thread to which I can contribute. There is indeed a Zeppelin Museum and they have a web site: http://www.zeppelin-museum.de/index.phtml?page=1 While at Hobby Land in Ottawa I spied a solitary Revell 1:720 scale plastic model kit (#04802) of the Hindenburg LZ 129 and snatched it up, ...

•Hi Folks, I received this request for information, and thought that someone on the MMD would have more knowledge about the rolls in the message below. An answer to Carl and to the MMD would be appreciated. Thanks, Al Pebworth -- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- From: gibson@a-zn...

•Here's an additional twist on the current MIDI thread. I want to make my laptop truly portable so that I can drive different instruments in different rooms. I use a Portman PC/P parallel MIDI interface. What I want to do is connect some kind of a little transmitter to my laptop and have the receive...

•[ Kim's original subject was a good pun: The Missing Links ] Hi all, Kim here with some great news on our endless quest to find the most unusual collection of Player Piano & Nickelodeon/Orchestrion rolls out there. We have discovered another "Rare" find. In our warehouse we discovered recently in a...

•Below is a message sent to me regarding a documentary on Ed Link titled "Link: the Quiet Genius". > Dear Mr. Harris, > > "Link: The Quiet Genius" will be rebroadcast on WSKG-TV on March 5 at > 8 PM during our upcoming pledge drive. At that time you may order > a tape of the program which does have ...

•Sam Harris wrote a few days ago about this documentary. Maybe I shouldn't say this, because I haven't seen the program, but some of the music for the program was recorded on our Link AX just before we left for Florida in November. At the time the piano needed tuning and one xylophone note would cip...

•Don Teach was looking for a source for roller chain. Try the following link: https://sdp-si.com/eStore/ I purchased some chain from them for another application. They have a pretty extensive catalog of item and some things may be of use when rebuilding mechanical music instruments. Iran Ausley ...

•I've had great luck learning from reading the MMDigest as it comes by email, and in the MMD Archives, but I'm faced with a problem that I haven't seen discussed much, unless I missed it. I have recently acquired a Link 2E that was described as 'original' but still playing. For reasons that amount t...

•I thought someone might respond to the questions concerning the Link 2-E model nickelodeon. Link to my knowledge never published a tubing diagram for this model. There was a small pamphlet at one time in print on servicing the Link pianos but I don't remember any details from the pamphlet that woul...

•Those MMD members that have web site links on the MMD's "Links to Resources for Mechanical Music" pages, please visit: http://mmd.foxtail.com/cgi-bin/links.pl and verify that your information is current. Send any updates (or new additions) to me using the email-link at the top of those pages. Karl ...