•Hello all MMD'ers, after a long time I am back with news from my YouTube channel, "JochenKopf". There I uploaded a new series, Olympia "Premier League", showing my 20" Olympia, the biggest disc music box in my collection, with the 13 discs I didn't play before. Because it was the first time I heard...

•This is in response to Chris McLain's request [in 221211 MMD] for a Lador Christmas Tree Cup. Gary Stevenson makes Christmas tree cups, however, for liability reasons he will not make one that carries 110-volt electricity. He recommends a battery-powered LED Christmas light set. You can hide the ba...

•For sale: Wurlitzer 104 band organ with drums. The unit came from Playland Park in Springfield Township, Ohio. The trailer is 5 feet by 8 feet, with a Honda Generator EU2000. Height is 87 inches, weight is 1400 lbs., serial # 3420. Comes with a battery-powered motorized trailer caddy. Comes with 2 ...

•As promised, to any possibly interested MMD readers who are Q.R.S. aficionados, here as attached are four views of the "Q.R.S. Speaker". The first view is of the speaker cone which is all intact featuring no damage whatsoever, the "surround" made of felt is without deterioration, which is surprisin...

•Offering for sale this self-playing Accordion -- this portable instrument can make anyone an accomplished player of the button accordion. As one pumps the bellows in and out, the mechanism plays the music automatically from digital cassettes, four of which are included, with 60 total tunes. It uses...

In digest 9505011 Dave Clark asked for information about equipping his small street organ for Midi control. His keyless book reader scale is for 14 melody, 9 accomp, 5 bass, and 0 (zero) counter-melelody channels, for a total of 28 channels with no register controls. This format nicely matches the W...

Janosy and Macsai seek Welte-Mignon player acceleration/deceleration data for their project of reproducing the music from the transcribed rolls, using a Welte-to-Midi emulator and a synthsizer or Disklavier. Virtually all classical rolls include inherent time correction which attempts to compensate ...

I enjoyed the concise history of programmed machines provided by Fritz Gellerman (digest 960225). Here is another unique machine, described in the book "Stars and Telescopes" by David P. Todd; Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1899, p. 360. "An arrangement of multiple cameras for observation of solar ecl...

It's been a while since I have posted - but I haven't been sleeping! About a year and a half ago I mentioned we were having a band organ built that would use an electronic module music reading system. It is done, and if all goes well, we will be at N. Tonawanda next week. The instrument is a "Strass...

Hi Jody, hi Hal, As to your request for the Hofbauer-Organ I will state information I have collected in the past. The primary source is a German magazine called    Mechanische Orgelwelt aktuell (Mechanical Organ World News)    Eine Zeitung fuer die Freunde der modernen Mechanischen Musik    A newspa...

> Ten years ago a Sola 2- or 3-kva ferro-resonant line conditioner for > 60 Hz cost about $2000; it will run indefinitely with no maintenance, > and protect all the computers and consumer electronics found in a home. > I think it's very well-suited for places like Florida and Jakarta! I think, start...

•Not only Ampico uprights have bad wiring -- Duo Arts may be included. I posted a couple of years ago a message about my Weber 5'8' 1926 era. The metal-jacketed wiring (Romex?) felt warm after playing the piano for 15 minutes. I was feeling the new switch I'd installed, to make sure it wasn't overhe...

•Some original era instrument builders were concerned with electrical safety, and enclosed their 110 VAC wiring in flexible conduit. Sometimes the old wiring cannot be pulled out of this for replacement because the insulation inside is rotten. Large electrical supply houses have a product called '3/...

•Hello All: This message in reply to Nancy Fratti's request for home brew Nickel Plating. Yes, you can do it, and it's quite easy. Unfortunately I do not have a source for the chemicals, but I'm sure that you can find your own by calling around to some local plating shops to see where they buy their...

•Damon's question about why players weren't electrically operated got me thinking. For those who have never studied the period between the U.S. Industrial Revolution and World War II, this can be a very good question. It boggles the mind of many people to realize that vast parts of the U.S. were wit...

•Found on the newsgroup: ======== From: pianodoctor@mindspam=spring.com (Proto-Cow) [ Actually ; he has '.nospam' too ! ] Date: Sun 21:17 Subject: Re: acoustic piano recording > recording a piano. What sort of microphones and other equipment > should I be looking at, and where? All suggestions appre...

•In MMDigest 980206 John Burton requested information about a two-speed motor for a Welte-Mignon. The T-100 (red roll) and T-98 (green roll) both had provision for motor speed change during the musical perform- ance. The T-100 (red) utilized perforations in the music roll to engage or disengage resi...

•I recently found a solution (I think) to a problem I've been having with my PianoDisc 128+. Thus unit has a "Pass Through" mode which permits me to play MIDI files directly from my PC through a MIDI interface. In my case, the MIDI interface is plugged into the sound card using the joystick port. I ...

•Philip Jamison wrote in Digest 980627: > I've never seen a street organ in Holland turned by hand except for > special occasions or in museums. The standard power seems to be a > small Honda generator which operates an electric motor. This drives > the large flywheel via a cloth belt. This belt is ...

•Ingmar Krause wrote in Digest 980628: > ..... Well, indeed Robbie is right, if he says that turning by hand > would be normal, but this [now] seems to be "history". > > In the time when there was no such motor, such a street organ was > normally run by three people, alternating with each other in t...