•On reading Tim Trager's suggestion that Jeanne Malone be considered for the MBSI Trustees' Award, I said to myself, "Of course! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?" The MBSI Trustees' Award is given for "Outstanding Contributions to the Society and/or the Field of Automatic Music." As anyone ...

•The recent thread about developments in roll scanning reported a new software which converts roll scans into MIDI files, and the capability to replicate rolls punch-for-punch. This brought to mind the quiet work of Thomas Jansen in the medieval town of Monschau, Germany (http://maesto.com/). He has...

•My Internet Service Provider went unexpectedly out of business three weeks ago, with only a few days notice before its server went down. My website was offline for more than a week, because I had to move it and my email to a new provider, which took longer than expected. But now the website ( http...

•Hello! Wolfgang, my friend here in Germany, wants to acquire a Seeburg Liliput piano. He saw an instrument at a collection over here and fell in love with it due to its small size and lovely music. So he asked me for some help. If there is anybody out there who wants to sell such an instrument, ple...

•Well, at last the situations seem not that depressing. Tom Jansen offers quite a lot of newly cut rolls. Even Welte T-98 "Green" rolls, for which there has been nearly no market for the last twenty years, are available, and also other rolls like Duo-Art and National Coin Piano, for example. But to ...

•Dear Peter, "Pneuma accordéon jazz" rolls are _very_ rare, so I suggest that the roll you mentioned is probably a standard Kuhl & Klatt music roll. Most of these rolls, bearing the name "Original Pneuma", were manufactured for the Kuhl & Klatt company by the "Excelsior Notenrollenfabrik", Berlin. T...

•The restoration of the pneumatic player units for this magnificent instrument was done by Thomas Jansen of the Musikwerkstatt Monschau, Germany. This task of pneumatic brain surgery included replacing 4 km (almost three miles) of lead tubing. A number of fascinating photos of the organ and the comp...

•Mark Jefford wrote: > I received a flyer announcing another concert involving playing > music rolls on the Salomons Welte Organ in Kent, UK. The concert > has been arranged for Thursday, 22 March, 2007, at 7.30 p.m. This is truly a one of a kind and fascinating instrument. Luckily, an expert in the...

•Hello all, a gentleman in my area is moving and needs to sell a piano he will have no room for in his next residence. It is a Kuhl and Klatt coin piano, unrestored, with one roll. At one time it also had a mandolin effect, but this is currently missing. Recut rolls are available from Germany: http...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMDigest -- Recently Dave Bowers forwarded me a couple of messages from the MMDigest that had mentioned my name. I am very flattered that I am remembered after all of these years. I have the fondest of memories both working with Hathaway and Bowers and ...

•Greetings to you all, I wish to inform MMDers that we have completed the development of a pinned barrel scanner. A short presentation is available on YouTube at http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=LvBxip2xC48 The scanner has been developed by a team composed of me, the fellow MMDer Flavio Pedrazzini, and...

•My style 135 still has the original roll mechanism, which uses Wurlitzer Concert Organ rolls. Many of these have arrangements based on Wurlitzer Mandolin PianOrchestra and Wurlitzer Concert PianOrchestra rolls (Philipps PM and PC rolls respectively) and date from before 1920. Tim Westman, of Woodsv...

•I was asked for the trackerbar layout of the Kuhl & Klatt pianos. The music rolls, made by Bacigalupo´s "Exelsior Notenrollenfabrik" in Berlin, bear the trademark "Pneuma" and are cut with square holes. A picture of the spool ends is at http://www.maesto.com/US/kuhl-klattus.html Kuhl & Klatt instru...

•Due to several enquiries, we have decided to start a recut project for the Phillips PM rolls in the beginning of next year. I am very busy right now, but I am looking forward to presenting a list of at least about 100 different rolls before Christmas. You can download this list of PM rolls from our...

•[ Ref. 970703 MMDigest, Avant-garde Music Rolls > Data from the "Donaueschinger Kammermusiktage 1926" of July 25, 1926: > the following "Originalkompositionen fuer Welte-Mignon" were published: > ... > Gerhard Muench (1907-?) (roll no. 4109) > Polyphone Etuden fuer mechanisches Klavier > I: Introdu...

•I have visited the Café Fribourgeois three times. You are correct in assuming that this Weber Solea was custom built. The owner said it was built special because of their low ceiling. An early Weber catalog, however, shows this instrument. It has a nice-looking case with two moving scenes. The musi...

•This is in response to Mike Roseboom's request for census data of known photoplayer type instruments. About ten years ago, while visiting a friend in Heidelberg, we visited the German Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments in nearby Bruchsal which houses the Jan Brauers Collection. In the museum ...

•With the recent talk of recordings, I wanted to let all everyone know that in the upcoming Bonham's Auction on Oct 7th, 2010, there are three orchestrions that I have recordings of. I have included a link to each recording which also has a great history of each machine and also has some wonderful p...

•Anyone looking for that special Duo-Art roll should consider contacting Wolfgang Haas in Germany. He has access to a library of over 1500 Duo- Art titles and will make a one-to-one copy of any title that he has for a nominal fee, including shipping to the U.S. He accepts PayPal. I just received a b...

•I am guilty of responding to a question offline and not posting the email on MMD, mainly because, while I could help the person myself to some extent, the real person they should be talking to is another well- known restorer. I felt uncomfortable posting this person's name on MMD without his permis...