•I am rebuilding the 22-note Deagan Xylophone in my Western Electric Selectra. It has suffered a poor rebuild. What material was used to cover the pneumatics when new? I see signs of both old leather and cloth. What is the material of choice today? Bob Stewart

•The balls may be back! I am thinking about having another 1000 beater balls made of rosewood, 7/8-inch diameter. Anyone interested? Don Teach - Shreveport Music Co. Shreveport, Louisiana Home of the Better Balls

•Looking through the MMD Archives I just realized that my web page addresses changed when I moved. The new addresses are http://home.comcast.net/~rblang/harpsitron/harpsitron.htm A MIDI controlled harpsichord http://home.comcast.net/~rblang/xylotron/xylotron.htm a computer controlled (MIDI) acoustic...

•Hello All, I am trying to figure out the best alternative, method or way to add a xylophone or glock to a small Fotoplayer. How were these originally operated and connected to the tracker bar to maintain the best historical accuracy? Since I imagine that it will be used when the pipes are not in op...

•In article in 980321 MMDigest, 'Calculations for Xylophone Bars', by Jack Breen, http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Tech/breen_xylo.html the drawing provided in the spreadsheet breen_xyloph3.xls for the xylophone bar dimensions shows the length of the full-depth parts at each end of the bar as 1+(0.22...

•Gerald Wood writes of an editing error that occurred in his article in 080628 MMDigest: Good afternoon, With reference to the calculations for xylophone bars, the original note I sent did not include brackets in the formulae for calculating the lengths of the full depth end sections. The article in...

•Hello friends, I've just finished restoring a Western Electric X with xylophone. The piano plays great -- it plays plenty strong on both soft and loud settings. The xylophone, however, seems a bit sluggish to me and does not play loudly at all. Is there a recommended striking distance for the beate...

•I am selling my Seeburg K with xylophone, serial number 157556. A meticulous 100-point piano and mechanical restoration was completed in April of this year; the original fumed oak case was in good condition and not refinished, the xylophone was converted to single stroke. Many photos are available...

•Hi, I'm looking for a pneumatic xylophone or glockenspiel for a nickelodeon I am building to use with an 'A' roll. Also looking for a Gottschalk accumulating coin mechanism. Also would be interested in plans for the above. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Shawn Quigley

•I am trying to find a Seeburg xylophone for sale. If you have one for sale, please let me know. Dave Goodwin

•I need of information as to how the xylophone On-Off valve switch is connected. Everything is working on the machine -- xylophone, piano, snare drum, mandolin and triangle. I just can't get the xylophone to turn off and on. I now have it on all the time. A schematic diagram or tubing sketch of how ...

•DeBence Antique Music World has just completed the work needed to put our Nelson-Wiggen 4X nickelodeon back into playing condition. Assuming we solve this last issue it will be back in display on the main floor after five years absence. We need some help tubing the on/off xylophone control. The bas...

•I have the Nelson Wiggen Style 3 PianOGrand with xylophone. I've been playing it sporadically since I got it in August of this year. It's coincidental that mine also plays all the time with the xylophone, yet this last time I re-wound the roll and played (last week), the xylophone stopped playing. ...

•A few weeks ago I wrote asking for help to get the xylophone On/Off function working on the DeBence Museum Nelson-Wiggen. Thanks to all who responded. We learned that there are at least three different designs out there that are not like ours. Ed Bottegal, our volunteer, persisted and the small cub...

•Hi all, in the process of rebuilding a Seeburg xylophone for my late (1928) Seeburg E nickelodeon, I discovered that the xylophone bars are tuned to A=435 Hz as opposed to the later day 440 Hz. Is it easy to tune the bars to 440 Hz or is it better to tune the piano to 435 Hz? The xylophone and regu...

•I restored a Seeburg L in 2009 and my piano technician, who was re-stringing it, wanted to tune it to A=440, so I posed the question to Art Reblitz. He confirmed that virtually all orchestrions, apart from Nelson-Wiggen, stuck with A=435 till they ceased production in 1929. So your xylophone is rig...

•Without exception, every Seeburg E or K that I have seen playing a xylophone had a J.C. Deagan xylophone tuned to A=435. It is ever so slight a drop in pitch compared to A=440. I would never try to retune to A=440 an old xylophone that was originally made as A=435. I have a xylophone in my collecti...

•Just a general comment here. I have a 25-note J. C. Deagan xylophone that goes from G to G and is marked A=440. From what I could gleam from the various Bowers and Reblitz books, this xylophone might have come from a Link piano. Did Link tune their any of their pianos to A=440? Wade Newton ...

•Hello, there seems to be confusion about A=435 Hz and A=440 Hz tuning. The 1937 international symposium on tuning adopted as standard 435 Hz at 15 degrees centigrade. This had been used by the majority of builders (but not all) for some years. This is very close to 440 Hz at 20 degrees centigrade, ...

•John Harrold wrote in 110221 MMDigest: "... there seems to be confusion about A=435 Hz and A=440 Hz tuning. The 1937 international symposium on tuning adopted as standard 435 Hz at 15 degrees centigrade. This had been used by the majority of builders (but not all) for some years. This is very close...