•J.P. Seeburg was the first manufacturer in America to use scenic art glass panels illuminated from the inside in coin-operated pianos. While pioneering the A-roll coin piano at the Marquette Piano Co., he stated that he thought many other brands of coin pianos were generally unattractive, with the ...

G'day all you digestees out there! Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Darrell Clarke, I am 50 something, married, 2 daughters, living in Adelaide (pop. > 1M), South Australia, working in communications. My interests include: listening to music (I can't play anything), collecting and restoring ...

Al Menashe mentioned a player piano-phonograph combination he saw at auction in Portland in which the phonograph was wound by treadling the piano. Karl Ellison suggested that it might have been the "Standard" Playerpiano Phonograph as described in the reprinted advertisement in the 2nd edition of Ha...

> > The problem lies in transferring the old shafts and gears to the new > frame. My caller says he has got most of it worked out but he needs to > remove the small brass pinion gear which, when viewed from the front of > the player, lies at the left-hand end of the top shaft. The Amphion transmissi...

In a message dated 96-11-09 03:35:58 EST, Terry Smythe writes: > > The transposing feature is kinda neat, particularly if you are using > the player piano as accompaniment to a sing-along situation. Not too > many player pianos have some form of transposer, I would guess at about > 20-25%. > I have ...

Philippe - C'est bien avec moi is vous envoyiez des messages au MMD en francais. Il y a des souscripteurs qui connaissez d'autres langues. Je voudrais la practice d'ecrire en francais. Probablement, vous pouvez realiser que j'en ai besoin! J'ai une question pour vous. Quels sont les mots en francais...

Terry Macham wrote in Digest 970113: > I ran across a Weber (Canadian) player piano the other day. There > is a lever located to the right of the tracker bar labeled "Solodant." > What is the function of this control? "Solodant" means the same as "Themodist" -- it's the system that employs the littl...

John Phillips said: > Thomas Henden asks if there are any modern companies that cut > Themodist rolls. There are at least two in the U.K., Thomas: > Southport Music Rolls and Perforetur Rolls. The latter company > even put a Metrostyle line on the rolls I bought from them. > These rolls are not chea...

Bing Gibbs wrote: > Other than the fact that maybe it's rare, is there any advantage > to having a foot pumper reproducing player? I have a foot pumped Ampico as well as an electric Ampico grand. I find the foot pumped Ampico (The Marque Ampico) to be a lot of fun because there are many times that I...

•Jody or Robbie; I've tried sending the following message to Andy Taylor twice at his TEMPOLA@aol.com address and it has bounced back both times. Maybe you will put it in the digest and he might see it that way. It might be of passing interest to other people, anyway. [ Editor's Note: [ [ I'd like t...

•I found the following ad on the 'piano' newsgroup: --- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD --- From: Ebert Steele Subject: FS: Steinway Duoart FS: 1923 Steinway grand w/Duo-Art reproducing mechanism. Hand painted art case. Choice original condition. Player mechanism is tight and plays...

•Reproducing pianos are kind of scarce in this part of the world. Can anyone help me with information about this one: Haines Upright Ampico, ser. no. 75893. In spoolbox: Ampico on/off, Repeat on/off, Pressure Low/Medium/High, Tempo Indicator, Play/Reroll. In keyslip: Loud/Soft Bass, Loud/Soft Treble...

•Hello all. Well, 'hats off' to Julian Dyer! I never cease to be amazed by the knowledge that turns up in this digest. It seems that every few days I learn something I didn't know -- which makes me feel a bit inferior since I have not considered myself to be at all ignorant about player and reproduc...

•Welcome to Dave Dibley, of the Pianola Shop, 134 Islingword Road, Brighton, England, who joins the Digest today. I described the shop in some detail in MMD970818. It's the last of the Mohicans, a real player-piano shop such as most American towns still had in the 1960s but very few British towns ha...

•I join Dan Wilson in welcoming David Dibley to the MMD. I have been trying to persuade him to join for a while, even to the point of threatening to sign him up. I am glad that Dan has confirmed the acute "e" in Marque Ampico that I mentioned a few months ago and which caused such prolonged discussi...

•G'day, Bob Fitterman writes (MMD980914): > Bravo, David. I like the idea of a glossary on the web. But, > I'll tell you what feature I'd love to see in such a glossary: > a little button you can click to hear the *pronunciation* of the word. To which Robbie replies: >[ What a great idea ! We have a...

•Seems to me that certain names for players attract instant response by those offended by them. I cannot understand the reaction; why is it such a big issue that it continually appears in the MMD? Just about everyone here in Australia calls all player pianos "pianolas", regardless of which maker mad...

•Hi all, In MMD 990514 Ed Gaida mentions having a "double-hernia" model Bush & Lane player action to restore and notes that, while PPCo suggests that the action is common, he hasn't previously encountered one. Here (in Western Washington State) they are indeed relatively common, although I can't ima...

•"Ballet Mecanique" Disklavier Concert Review, 11-19-99 (Part 2 of 3) [ This 3-part article reviews the concert which featured 16 [ Yamaha Disklavier pianos, performed at the University of [ Massachusetts, Lowell MA, on Thursday, November 18, 1999. [ Previous MMD articles about this topic may be fou...

•> From: geoffhale@beeb.net (Geoff Hale) > To: editor@foxtail.com > > I have found reference, in a newspaper article dated 1905, > to a 'Augelus' or 'Angelus' piano player, both names are used > in the article so I guess the writer wasn't sure what it was > called. The instrument was presumably a 'p...