•I've had some success, many years ago, repairing 8-track tapes. The tape is standard 1/4" tape with one difference: the tape backing is coated with a dry lubricant so as to make it slide easily in the coil. It will probably be necessary to open up the cassette, observing the location of components ...

•Terry, Firstly, take one Valium or other nerve calming prescription, send the dog, wife and impressionable young children out for the day, clear the table and take a deep breath -- then get stuck in..... The tape cartridges are in two parts and are (a) screwed together, or (b) clipped together with...

•Hi Terry, This is a simple repair. Reassemble the cartridge and slowly pull out more tape from the feeder side to insure that there is nothing binding the tape. Now just hold the 8 track cartridge so the tape opening is facing down, grab a 6 inch section of tape that is hanging from the feeder side...

•It's probably been more than 25 years since I fooled around with 8-track tape cartridges, but I still remember a few things. I actually had an 8-track tape recorder, and used to record music so my dad could listen in his car while driving to work. Clean the capstan roller in the tape deck. Sometime...

•Hi Terry, As to repairing an 8-track tape, you will have to do what l always do. Open the cartridge and start pulling out the tape, being exceptionally careful as you get toward the center of the feed. Once this is done, re-thread the tape, but leave a tail of the tape out of the center, so it can ...

•I recall that an 8-track player pulls the tape out of the center of the reel of tape, and puts it back on the outer rim of the reel. Thus, if you pull one inch of tape out of the center, the reel should wind up two or three inches back on, due to the ratio of diameters. So I would say that if the t...

•My most sincere thanks for all who responded to my dilemma of having my 8-track player eat a lovely tape I was trying to convert to a CD. The fix that a number of you suggested is incredibly simple. I first smoothed out the slightly damaged portion of the tape within the 2-foot loop hanging outside...

•I was amazed to see a reference (MMD 030615) to the Wayne Stahnke cassette system for the Ampico. I first heard of this system in the 1970s, after I had developed a similar system, also for the Ampico. As I recall, the IMI system sold for around US$2000. I used to market mine for A$600, with each s...

•Hello everyone, I have many Pianocorder cassette tape volumes for sale. Please contact me for a list. Prices start at $30 per volume. Please e-mail me at Thank you very much, Respectfully, Michael Stehney

•Fellow MMDers, Over twenty years ago I acquired a roll of Scotch-type mending tape on a large core that was only 1/8 inch wide. It had become lost, was recently found, and is now all used up. I just got off the phone with Durrell Armstrong of the Player Piano Co. He said I didn't get it from him an...

•Most drafting and art-supply houses carry 1/8 inch tape. George Livingston

•Fellow MMDers, On Tom Hutchinson's subject of roll-mending tape. Yes, he did purchase this material well over twenty years ago -- perhaps as long as thirty years back! Not wishing to invoke the wrath of Durrell Armstrong and his Player Piano Company, which has served us all well, I respectfully sug...

•Hi all, I have 13 empty PianoCorder tape boxes in original condition. Anyone interested? Best offer gets them all. They can be used for ordinary cassette tapes as well. Each box holds ten tapes. Devon Hollingsworth, in DeKalb, Illinois

•In my active days (1960-2002) I built five 165's, one 150, and six 125's, and I added a 165 attachment to play the big Wurlitzer in Mitsukoshi Department Store when an organist was not available. Some had pipes, some were hybrids and some were all electronic. I operated all of them using Doyle Lane...

•Hello, Vic Searle's mention of his use of double stick tape for pneumatics is most interesting. One thing that must be considered is the tape used. Today there are all sorts of double stick tape, ranging in quality from total garbage designed to hold a worthless piece of junk together long enough f...

•I'm glad to see some reaction to my use of double-sided tape for attaching pneumatics. Just for fun, I went down to the Mitsukoshi department store where I used to maintain the Wurlitzer. When I rebuilt it in 1985, I added a player mechanism contrived for a 165 band organ roll and wired it into the...

•Hi all, I'm cleaning out a storage area and I discovered I still have the following Pianocorder stuff I'd like to sell in a hurry. 11 boxes full of 10 tapes each: 10 of these boxes came with the Vorsetzer (I think) that I no longer own. I kept the tapes to convert to MIDI. 2 Partially full boxes of...

•Hi! This is Noel down in Australia. I was given your email address from Mr. Tuttle when I was seeking a repair manual. We used to have the tape to fix the edges of rolls up to a few years before "Mastertouch" went out of business. Any help would be appreciated. Noel Butler noelrbutler@hotmail.com.g...

•I have a large quantity (150+) of Pianocorder cassette tapes for sale. They are in library boxes, 10 x cassette tapes to a volume. The original volumes are 1 (x2), 3, 5, 6, 8, 11 (x2), 14, 15, 17, 22, 23, 24 and 28. In addition there are a few duplicate copies and some bootleg copies including volu...

•Would like to obtain a tape player for the Pianocorder 101 system, hopefully one that works, in good condition. R.G. Stewart Los Altos, Calif. tel.: 1-650-941-6699