•A friend of mine (a fellow pilot) has a couple of Link Trainers and he wants to restore at least one of them. I know that some years back I had some information about the trainers but I can't find it now. I sure hope that someone out there can give us a hand with some information about them and pos...

•For sale: 38 Automatic Musical Company early Link recut 5-tune endless rolls. These rolls will play on a Link 2 E piano but will not operate the xylophone. For more information email me: James Williams South Ogden, Utah ampicojim@netscape.net.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

•For sale: 38 Automatic Musical Company early Link recut 5-song endless rolls. These rolls will play on a Link 2-E piano but will not operate the xylophone. These 5-song rolls of great early songs could be spliced together to make a longer roll for use on a Link piano. For more information email me...

•Dear MMDers, Many, many years ago I acquired an orphaned front panel from a Link orchestrion which I believe is a Style C. At the time we were living in Endicott, New York, near Binghamton, home of the Link Piano Company. We also had a Link Style AX which had a different front. I brought home this ...

•For sale: 38 Automatic Musical Company early Link recut 5-song endless rolls. These rolls will play on a Link 2-E piano but will not operate the xylophone. These 5-song rolls of great early songs could also be spliced together to make a longer roll for use on a Link piano. For more information emai...

•For sale: 38 Automatic Musical Company early LINK recut 5-song endless rolls. These rolls will play on a Link 2-E piano but will not operate the xylophone. These 5-song rolls of great early music could also be spliced together to make a longer roll for use on a Link piano. The songs on these rolls ...

•Wanted: the custom Link RX roll possibly produced by Ed Freyer or Don Rand. This roll has no number on its tune card. It contains fifteen fairly well-known tunes so it represents tunes copied from various rolls. The first tune is "Pretty Baby". The 15th tune is "When It's Springtime in the Rockies"...

•For Sale: Out of space and need to sell: an Aeolian Orchestrelle with over 150 excellent rolls, older restoration, will consider offers. Also for sale: a Link 2E, later cabinet style, restrung and waiting to be restored. Located in Marion, Ohio. Contact Dave Van Oosten, tel.: 1-740-914-6209 Mike Pe...

•For sale, free: I'm cleaning out my shop and have a few items needing new homes. The first item is a Link(?) pump. Its main crank is slightly bent at the pulley end. It will need to be turned down and rebushed to make the pulley run straight. The crankshaft seems to be in good shape otherwise -- it...

•I am starting a list of Mechanical Music Links which I want to be accessible to anyone interested in mechanical music or any related topic. A web site or home page can be added immediately by an individual (this is a do-it-yourself process) and will be available for access by anyone who wishes to v...

•As much as I like my Standard player action, I have always been annoyed by the mechanical design of the pedal linkage. There is a floating pivot that causes a problem. As the linkage ages and the bearings wear down, the resulting sloppiness allows the floating pivot to wander sideways. This puts a ...

•Hi, I'm just about to start on a rehash of the Fair Organ Preservation Society's web site and I would be pleased to add links to any mechani- cal music site. There are a few on there at the moment and I have some info on others not yet linked, but I would like to make sure that my links all work an...

•Hi All, I want to thank all that responded to my seek for a Gulbransen piano with the later style stack. Well, I found one. It's only real problem is it seems to be missing the "fishing pole" tracking linkage. A picture of this is in the Reblitz book page 125 item #136. All I have are the two screw...

•Greetings: I am looking for replacement automatic tracker linkage which runs behind the spoolbox on a 1922 Marshall & Wendell upright. The tracking pneumatics are complete, just the linkage is missing. Thanks, Tom Gregory Waukesha WI

•Hi All, I am restoring an Aeolian push-up player (circa 1902, with rosewood tracker bar) and am in need of the portion of the sustain pedal linkage that is responsible for pushing on the piano pedal. I am tempted to call this the "foot". A picture of the unit is found in Bower's encyclopedia on pag...

•Dear Editor, I wonder if anyone has any information on the Nicole Freres company of Geneva which may help me trace my ancestors please. The person I need to track down is the immigrant from Switzerland who moved to London to start the branch of the company in England. Any information would be very ...

•Hello All, I am in dire need of the outer sustain pedal linkages (including the decorative portion that presses on the sustain pedal) for my Aeolian push-up. I would gladly pay or trade for any / all pieces of this assembly. Many Thanks, Rob Buckingham

•Mention was made of Watt's planetary gear drive on the crank of his beam engines. This is an ingenious and simple method of increasing the effective inertia of the flywheel. The flywheel rotates twice as fast as it would otherwise and therefore has four times the inertia. James Watt also invented t...

•> This is an ingenious and simple method of increasing the effective > inertia of the flywheel. The flywheel rotates twice as fast as it > would otherwise and therefore has four times the inertia Don't like to be picky, Nick, but shouldn't that be "momentum"? Inertia is what has to be overcome to m...

•[ Nicholas Simons wrote in 040220 MMDigest: > Mention was made of Watt's planetary gear drive on the crank of his > beam engines. This is an ingenious and simple method of increasing > the effective inertia of the flywheel. The flywheel rotates twice as > fast as it would otherwise and therefore ha...