•Here are plans for plastic pipes: http://members.webone.com.au/~mydav/calliope.htm Rodd Diehl

•CPVC pipe is chlorinated polyvinylchloride. The controlled diameter is the outside diameter. The outside diameter of PVC (polyvinylchloride) pipe is also controlled, so the inside surface will be bumpy, lumpy and uneven. So this is where problems may arise. The other plastic piping mentioned in Mr...

•According to a book I have about the history of riverboats, there are a lot of calliopes resting on or near the bottoms of American rivers. Some were actually found in fields adjacent to the river after its path had changed. The book states that within four or five years after the first riverboat w...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hi, I am wondering if you can help me out. About seven years ago I was at a steam implement show in Ohio with my fiancée. We were taken by a man who was running a very new automated calliope. It was just a small pipe organ, with no other instr...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I'm looking for a cal-li-ope please send info of you have any. Thanks marshallmdw@aol.com

•A client in Platte, South Dakota, has a Cozatt calliope that has a player mechanism. It plays okay from the keyboard but the player part doesn't work. It has an "O" roll mounted in the spool box that goes across the tracker bar but doesn't produce any sound. As a player technician but with no techn...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMDigest -- Hello MMDers, I'm looking for a certain DOS MIDI file player of circa 1990 or earlier. It was called calliope.com, I think. What I particularly liked about this MIDI player was the graphics. While it would play any MIDI file, it was designed...

•Dear Dr. Passen: There are several steps needed to determine why any pipe is not speaking. I have not personally worked on the brand of calliope you have but as a pipe organ technician there are commonalties involved between a calliope whistle and an organ pipe. The following then are steps toward ...

•For sale: Calliope basket case. I am going into a retirement center, so I need to dispose of forty years of accumulated calliope parts. I would like to sell all in one lot. There is enough for one calliope and a good start on a second. A detailed list is available to interested parties. A few of th...

•I am in the process of buying a used calliope. From talking to the owner, I gather it is a Miner model with 43 pipes, from sometime in the last twenty years. It has a problem in that, when it is in player mode, it is not very loud. When played manually, the sound is loud and clear. It seems to have...

•Richard Price asks about troubles with a Miner Calliope. I recommend that he contact Dan Dohman, the new owner of the Miner Calliaphone business. He has been extremely helpful answering questions about the CA-53 that I recently purchased used. His email address is minercompany@iowatelecom.net.geent...

•Does anyone know of a calliope or band organ for rent for an event to be held in Delaware? Thank you, Stan Mills in Delaware millstan2@aol.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

•For sale: Many original Tangley and National calliope parts -- enough to build a complete calliope with lots leftover for sale or trade. A few of the items available are 60 whistles, rare 53-note original Tangley manifold, set of original National pipe spacers and related pipe parts, set of pot-met...

•Ref.: Calliope at New York Museum of Transportation, by Craig Smith http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Pictures/smithcCalliope.html Does anyone know if the calliope trailer pictured is still wasting away outdoors? Where is it located? Would it be available for purchase? How much? Larry Claus [ The cal...

•For Sale: (1) A reproduction Wurlitzer Caliola built by Donald Stinson in 1980. Plays on 65-note Automatic Player Roll. Serial #SN-8008-C. Asking price $6000. (2) A circus calliope made by Mike Hanchett, serial #10. Asking $7500. (3) A Hofbauer Drehorgel, model 26er Harmonipan Mikroband. Serial num...

•Dear MMD, Can anyone out there tell me anything about the King calliope? I have one that is from the early 1990's (I was told). It is very similar to a Tangley, with 43 notes, a keyboard and player mechanism, and internal blower. This one was in a 'circus wagon' built onto the back of an old (1950s...

•Seek calliope conversion to play MIDI files. Help! In the late 1960's or early 1970's my father, Ron Nielsen, manufactured for a very brief time (until he realized there was not a strong market) a 53-note brass whistle calliope under the name of "Cleartone". From what I can tell it is similar to a ...

•I am at the next step in the restoration of my calliope. It has a Simplex unit valve pneumatic stack which was "chopped" from a piano. The roll player is powered by an electric motor, so the vacuum is needed only for the stack. It had a separate vacuum box, but the motor in it is ruined from being ...

•I am offering for sale some instruments from my collection, including: 1. Western Electric cabinet A-roll piano in quarter-sawn oak case with xylophone and the tune-selecting Selectra mechanism, ex Marty and Elise Roenigk. I have only ever seen a couple of these with the tune selector mechanism. Ch...

•At one time I had completed a 43-note wood whistle calliope, keyboard operation only. It sounded great but the keyboard linkage gave me trouble so I disassembled it with the idea of coming up with a new keyboard scheme. That was about six years ago and now I have other interests so there it sits. I...