•Hello, I am looking for information on a style 82/182 North Tonawanda Military Band Organ. I need to know what notes the 15 brass trumpets play. I have rebuilt this organ from a "basket case". I have all the other pipes in the organ tuned and they sound great. They tuned at one note lower than a Wu...

•Hello! I own a clock restoration business, my main focus is the restoration of Black Forest clocks. This includes but is not limited to organ clocks, trumpeter clocks, cuckoo clocks and all other mechanical clocks. I also have a Verbena Toy barrel piano by Reig. Several examples of these toy pianos...

•Sorry to hear of Mike Montgomery's passing. His piano playing on the many recorded sides of the Boll Weevils Jass Band is the very best! The leader of the Boll Weevils, trumpeter Dan Havens, was a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and for many years also fronted a university b...

•Yep, I saw it Saturday. It looks like a Wurlitzer 153, with Doyle Lane plastic valves painted black just under the orchestra bells. I couldn't tell if they worked the bells or the inverted trumpets just below them. The three organs play in rotation around the merry-go-round, one after the other, on...

•I need some band organ brass trombones to finish a large Wurlitzer organ, of any size and any condition. I could also use some brass trumpets if they are taller than 30" and have a bell measurement over 6 inches. Even if anybody has just one, I'll buy it! Joe Hilferty tel.: 1-717-755-0209 jhilf148@...

•[ Daryl Smith wrote in 160608 MMDigest -- > My question is, if I close the stops on the trumpets, piccolos and > other louder pipes on the 125, will the volume level be similar to > a 105? Or will the 125 be substantially louder no matter what? Generally speaking, volume is not the question -- it i...

•If you listen very, very closely to Tom Meijer's arrangement of "K-K-K Katy" from roll 14510, you can hear almost hear the word "Whoopee" or "Yippee" spoken by the wood trumpets at the start of each verse. It almost sounds like as if the band organ is talking to you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

•I am trying to set up a Wurlitzer 105 band organ and have the Terry Smythe scans. Is there a converter program out there to convert these scans to a 2-channel format so I can separate the Trumpets? Thanks in advance, Steve Muscato [ The Wurlitzer Style 105 band organ plays the same music roll [ as ...

In digest 95.08.26, Bob Ebert asked about the note assignments for the Wurlitzer 125 and 150 rolls. Here's some information extracted from Art Reblitz' "Treasures of Mechanical Music". I'm told that Art is unsure when/if it will be reprinted. Its too bad that this wonderful book is itself a collecto...

Marty, in your note in Digest 960724, you say you are seeking DeKleist brass pipes for restoration of the Wurlitzer "Mammoth". 1. What is this instrument? Is it the Wurlitzer Style 180? Matthew Caulfield has shared much information with me, but I don't recall this model. What's the history of the in...

Back from the MBSI's Mid-Am Chapter's band organ rally with probably as much sensory overload as Jody said he got from his talk with John Malone at Play-Rite. You asked about the Wurlitzer Monster and Mammoth band organs. (Since you asked on the net, you can forward this reply if you want to) The Mo...

I was amazed by the Tiki Room as a child, and tried to build one in my room, back in Minnesota. Small world has great design (Mary Blair is my favorite) though they recently redid the music. It used to have great arrangements, making the song seem less redundant. One part I particularily remember wa...

This brass instrument specialist recently made replicas of brass trombones for "either a Wurlitzer band organ or a similar German organ":    Robb Stewart    140 E. Santa Clara St., #18    Arcadia, CA 91006    tel/fax: 818-447-1904 Stewart is a renowned craftsman and has made many playable replicas o...

[ This article is extracted from a letter Jan sent me about this [ interesting book : [ [ The Marvelous World of Music Machines [ Edited 1976 by Office du Livre, Freibourg [ (translation from "Musikautomaten und Mechanische [ Musicinstrumente" by James Underwood). Robbie: The table of contents of t...

Received the following message from someone visiting my web site. May be of interest to some on the MMD list. Rick is not a subscriber to MMD, so perhaps someone might want to email him direct, copy to MMD. ---Forwarded Message Follows--- From: "Dona Hoyt / Rick Caldwell" To: Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 1...

•Until recently when the Disney collection was sold, I was responsible for maintaining the automatic music machine collection for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. During that time I had a lot of time to examine the machines and I am now convinced that there is good reason to question the belie...

•One of our favorite organ grinders, and a real close friend of mine, Hans Hoffman, of Park Ridge IL, passed away Friday, October 10. He could be found at most organ rallies playing either his Raffin trumpet organ or his Hofbauer trumpet organ. He was a very gentle man and never had anything bad to ...

•Dear MMDers, I have a lot of sheet music that was used by several dance and concert orchestras. The music dates from the 1890s through the 1950s with the majority being between 1915 and 1945 or so. I haven't counted them but I think there are over 800 pieces. They range in condition from new to ext...

•The Bruder up at Coney Island went through the B.A.B. conversion and ended up sounding rather nice, though there are a few things which I believe B.A.B. messed up. Apparently the Bruder was "chopped" a bit in that some (or a lot) of the forte pipes were removed and the trumpets were replaced by sax...

•Making a virtual organ is really fun. I myself use a virtual fair organ, German style, for several years already. Playing back a self-made arrangement gives a really good impression this way. For this purpose I use some samples (violin, accompaniment, cello, forte mixture, trumpet etc.) that I load...