•Dan Wilson stated in MMD 981203 that "It may not have two suction levels running at once, but its lightweight valve system makes it far faster than the Duo-Art at jumping between one level of intensity and another." I don't think this is true. While it's true that the Ampico left and right side exp...

•In June 1998 [MMD 980626] I posted the following message. The offer is still valid. About 15 years ago I restored an upright Steck pedal-electric Duo-Art. At that time I didn't know anything about Duo-Arts so, as a help to my understanding, I prepared very some very complete schematics and tubing d...

[ W/R/T Dan Wilson's comments on this topic in digest 961025 ] Hi MMD-readers, concerning piano rolls to MIDI coding it must be avoided to mix up two fully different subjects. One is the musical information which the rolls contain. The other is how a reproducing piano is able to convert this informa...

•In-Reply-To: Digest 98.05.22 Tim Baxter wondered whether there was a way of making notes 1-4 and 85-88 speak, using a specially-cut roll, on a Duo-Art piano. I once saw this done for an Ampico for the top notes only. The trick there was to tube a parallel pouch valve onto the reroll port and use si...

•Re: Digest 98.09.21 Hans has already given a better answer, but since I had already written this, it would be a pity to waste it. Jeremy Brice wrote: > I am currently recutting several books of music for a friend's > 49 key Limonaire organ, and the underside needs to be treated > with a shellac sol...

•In a message dated 98-10-09 02:18:41 , Hal Davis wrote: > Am I missing something? I'm running Windows 3.11 and Real > Audio 5.0. What's the problem?" No, Hal. I don't think you're missing anything. I'm also running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and the 16-bit version of Real Audio 5.0 on a 486DX66. I...

•I don't know just which parts are needed, but some parts can be had from: Al Moersfelder 7832 W. Drexel Ave. Franklin WI 53132 414-425-0441 He'd be the one to ask what's available, and to collaborate with on pieces that are really 'in demand', and to get cobs from. He's not on e-mail -- probably do...

•In Digest 980118 Bernt Damm wrote: > I would like to hear the comments from users of the Ragtime > Automated Music spool frames. I have been informed that these are > made of ABS plastic; is this true, and how rigid and durable are > they? Is the tracker bar made of metal, does the tracking work, >...

•Robert Linnstaedt wrote in MMD 980123: > ....I should expect a Celeste to be found on larger instruments. > Unless the on-pitch rank ever plays alone, the original scheme may > have been to tune the two to straddle the pitch so the net effect > would sound in tune with the rest of the organ. :-)...

•In MMD 980115 I reported on Denis Hall's seminar in London on the subject of the development of Duo-Art roll coding for the PPG. He's seen a transcript and contributes the following additional notes. I had said: > Then (c1914) H Creary Woods, the chief editor, developed the roll- > coding console, ...

•[ In Digest 980321 visitor Kathy Foster asked about a musical church. [ Jody wrote to inquire if she had any responses, and Kathy replied: > Jody, Rick Cooley and his wife responded, saying they have one with > their Christmas decorations, and as soon as they can they will send > it to me. I am so ...

•In Digest 980331 Joel Cluskey wrote: > In restoring my Kelsworth Simplex upright, I tried using the > replacement pneumatic valves supplied by the Player Piano Company. > I found that they were of varying tolerances, and the clearances > they created between the bottom and top seat were inconsisten...

•In the 980421 MMD Steve Greatrex brought forth again the question of how to rebuild leaky cross valves. I will not recommend to him the round valve seat replacement unless he fully understands that there is a huge difference in the open area of the cross valve seats compared to its round valve repl...

•In Digest 980630, Steve Matta asked whether there really is a carousel in Central Park. Yes, it exists and operates! I quote from the 1998 Carousel Census, available at http://www.carousel.net/org/nca/census/1998census.htm "NYC, Manhattan - Central Park, Stein & Goldstein, 1908, 4 row, Park, 52 jum...

•John Farrell wrote in 980723 MMDigest > D. L. Bullock said "Scott Joplin invented the ragtime form"; I'm no > ragtime expert but I'm pretty confident that was not the case -- > perhaps Ed Berlin (an eminent ragtime historian of world renown who > has written the definitive Joplin biography) will be...

•[ In Digest 980724 Philippe Rouille listed the objects stolen from [ the Mechanical Music Museum in Les Gets, France. Joyce Brite has [ kindly translated the article appearing at the museum's web site: [ [ http://www.stella-galaxy.com/vol/ Les Gets: Break-in at the Mechanical Music Museum Excerpted...

•[ Joe Roesch wrote in MMD 980821: ] > Anyone interested in what I believe is the only extant detailed > description of Winkel's mechanical marvel ... Not true! A few years ago I was exploring the Faculty of Music library at the University of Toronto (Canada), and I spotted a 500+ page volume, entir...

•I wrote several editions ago [MMD 980812] about our church piano that was sprayed with an ABC dry powder fire extinguisher. I don't know what the "tech" cleaned it with but I could still see powder around the hitch pins and agraffes. Upon playing the piano my wife complained about the tone which, u...

•Irma Herzog wrote at 980926 MMDigest: > You also must have RealAudio 5, which runs on Windows95 or Windows98 > only [and probably requires a Pentium processor]. Those of us with > old Windows 3.11, can only use RealAudio 3, and the site doesn't > handle that. We get the message that it is not a Rea...

•Sam's suggestion (in MMD 981007) for putting an Internet-based museum together is an interesting one. Personally, I get a lot of excitement from seeing the mechanisms in action, and like the idea of video, HOWEVER it's also necessary to be realistic. Most people (in 1998) don't have the bandwidth (...