•Needed for Ampico and Amphion uprights: * Take up spools for an Ampico and also Amphion 88-note upright player actions. * Tempo speed setting selector plate for Amphion spool box * Push buttons and springs for soft pedal and sustaining pedal control that are on the key slip. Ampico model A expressi...

Charles, OK, what you are looking for is a small street organ or monkey organ. An old one in unrestored condition may cost between $500 and $5000 depending on scarcity, desirability and condition. Harvey Roehl has had two of these restored and had to have the case entirely replaced. There is general...

I'd like to offer 2 barrel organs: GERBRUDER RIEMER 56-key barrel organ, circa 1890. Good news: has 2, 10-tune barrels, each 38" long with original tune card and stop list. Case refinished (black) with original reverse-on-glass gold name plate. Bad news: Missing most pipes, but does have flue basses...

•Greg Przyjemski: The very best guy to talk to is Charlie Hind, who does indeed read this list and will probably be responding. But I thought I'd toss in my two cents and add a couple of points to the count of "music box" text strings in the data base. =) If you want to do a bang-up job, you'll need...

•I am in the design process of designing a piano/pipe organ combination that will play several different types of rolls. It will play : 88-note, O , OS/NOS , Kimball player organ (NOT the pipe organ), A , G , 4X , and 65-note. My question is: is there a decent source for "M" rolls? ("M" rolls were u...

•First I want to thank several of you in the group that helped me make a decision on purchasing a Stella 17 1/4" Music box. (My 1st Mechanical Music instrument.) All of the help was much appreciated. What a friendly bunch !! I am an ex-Boomer Submariner that went to work as a research electro- mecha...

•[ Art Reblitz has been a lurking subscriber for quite a while, and [ I'm happy that he's now come forward to share his knowledge and [ seek help with his research. His official introduction will [ appear in MMD tomorrow. He wrote to Jody: [ [> Hi Jody, When Don Teach stopped in last month and put m...

•Hello everyone! My research has confirmed that The Foster & Co. division of the American Piano Co. in East Rochester, N.Y., installed the Ampico action in their upright pianos on special order, but were not production items. There was the Stoddard, Marquee foot-pumped and full "A' versions of this ...

•The piano's true rarity rests in its having been so large a Steinway piano with a Welte mechanism installed. Jim Miller and Ken Caswell, I believe, worked on the piano and may have installed the additional Licensee/Green Roll spoolbox with electric roll drive common to both spoolboxes. Joe Tushinsk...

•According to Michel's Piano Atlas, the serial number of the instrument (49618) indicates it was most likely manufactured in late 1912. The whole piano had a overhaul in the mid eighties. It is fully functional. It comes with approx. 50 65-note rolls. Exceptionally beautiful case. Marquetterie. "Lea...

•We have received many requests for fine early keywind cylinder boxes and rarely have them. This is the first fat cylinder overture box we have had for sale in probably three years. We felt we should offer it to the entire mailing list at once to be fair. Following is the description: Nicole Freres ...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hi, I would like to receive any information about Lador music boxes. I have one, I think is more a jewelry box with music. It looks like a little table, approx. 40 cm (16") high, with a fine work in marquetterie. Please help me! Rosana Maravi ...

•27-key street barrel organ for sale. An early one, probably about 1850 (has unusual "uni-block" melody pipes). Needs repair, but pipes, barrel and keyframe look good. Attractive marqueterie. Asking $1750. Philip Jamison 17 Sharon Alley West Chester, PA 19382 610-696-8449

•I have an old cylinder music box, from my grandfather. The machine was made in Switzerland, 1848, by Gueissaz. The box is made of wood and all the box is decorated with black and brown birds and flowers, very nice, and with marquetry on the front, back, right and left. Dimensions are 26x15x12 cm. O...

•Everyone who has responded to this question has answered the question of how it might be done, to my mind. But I would like to add a few other considerations. I am not exactly sure how high a pressure might be obtained by pumping the treadled Duo-Art, but I suspect it would have a maximum pressure ...

•Dear MMD'ers, While searching for more information in some Hooghuys documents about the history of the Dutch fairground family "Vincken" and their Hooghuys organ, I found two invoices for a Gerard Vincken for modifying a 109-key barrel organ built by the firm of Anciaume. Unfortunately, I haven't b...

•We (Mechantiques) have bought four antique monkey organs in the past month or so, one of which has us quite confused because we have never run across the name before. It might just be the name of an operator, or a private label, but it does seem to be marquetry. The lettering on the front of the or...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Can anyone advise me of an approximate value of a Jacot's patented music box dated 1885, in good original condition and working order, and can anyone comment on rarity? The box has beautiful marquetry inlay and has the paper song list inside the ...

•Hi, I have acquired the same type of table-music-jewelry box as the woman from Peru and am just trying to date it [010403 MMDigest]. It is inlay work, stands about 16" high and has a music box that says Lador on it. Any information on how to research this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you :) ...

•For sale in New York City is a Pleyel 6' walnut grand piano, serial number 176633 (made in 1924), with an Autopleyela reproducing player system installed and approximately 200 Autopleyela and compatible rolls, some made by Strawinsky. This company, which used to be in Paris, made very fine reproduc...