•Hi Folks, I have read, with interest, the ongoing discussion of the PowerRoll delivery delays. I was recently involved in a situation that took ten years before the product was delivered. So I can share the frustrations that such situations can provide. However, when we have great service from a fi...

•This really is a question for Richard Brandle, but I have lost his e-mail address. I am considering buying a Broadmoore Research PowerRoll from someone. I use Brandle's WindPlay.94 version to play the BAR/ANN roll files using a laptop with Windows 98, which works just fine. I would like to know whe...

•I posted a message a few weeks ago announcing the availability of a CD-ROM of over 1440 Ampico roll scans. These are in both MIDI and BAR/ANN format, so they can be used on a solenoid piano (Disklavier, etc.) or a PowerRoll equipped Ampico. The actual release date of this CD goes back to the 2001 A...

•Hi, I have had a request from a Wurlitzer 165 (Stinson brand) owner to look into MIDIfying it. I don't really want to get into detubing and pallet magnets. Is there not a way to do this similar to the PowerRoll concept? That way nothing is changed on the organ at all other than the mounting of a un...

•[ Andy LaTorre wrote in 050201 MMDigest: >> I don't really want to get into detubing and pallet magnets. >> Is there not a way to do this similar to the PowerRoll concept? First, has the owner talked to Stinson? They provide the MIDI option with all their new organs and might be able to retrofit ea...

•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...

•Andy Taylor wrote: > It would be interesting to see how a PianoDisc or a Disklavier and > Pianomation would respond, compared to a pneumatic system. Of course > the player used for the test should be in top shape or the test would > be meaningless. Andy e-mailed me a MIDI file he said his Pianomati...

•Hi gang, it really seems like MIDI to play pianos is here to stay! My MIDI file sales has doubled, to be used to play Pianomation and PianoDisc pianos, and one fellow wanted some MIDI files to adapt to his QRS nickelodeon. Some of them have even been adapted to band organs! Since I am playing all t...

•Albert de Boer asked: > Does anyone know a supplier of, what is called, "cold fish glue"? Dear Albert, Fascinating article! You can obtain cold fish glue of the highest quality from: Robert Norland Norland Products Inc P. O. Box 145-T N. Brunswick, NJ (908) 545-7828 If you only need a tiny bit, let...

•Greetings Gang, I, too, am vacationing a bit before the AMICA Convention. Today I am in Rochester, rolling into Niagara Falls on Wednesday afternoon. On Sunday, before leaving Stratford, Ontario, Canada, I captured a 2.5 MB wav file to my laptop of 'Shadow Waltz', played on Ken Vinen's Victor Ortho...

•Andy: You recommended Wayne Stahnke's AMPICO files in your article extolling Pianomation. Since Wayne has often said that he will not permit these to be translated to MIDI format, I was under the impression that they could not play on Pianomation at all, much less with expression; nor did I know th...

•Hi all. I have been consistently impressed with the technical competence shown by many of the contributors, and now realise just how far things have developed in terms of electrical "add-ons". Being fairly new to the game, and certainly not being electrically minded, I would find it extremely usefu...

•[ Our readers in Europe are friendly and patient when I write to them [ in "schoolboy German". It is a pleasure when MMD can help. Adrian [ is 18 years old and is interested in all about barrel organs! :) [ -- Robbie Hallo Robbie, today I'll attempt again to write another question for the MMD subsc...

•Hi Group, I finally forced myself to sit down and enter my Ampico roll collection into a database. No more bidding for rolls I already have. While I was typing I played selected rolls. I played 59323-M, "Symphony No. 5, 2nd Movement, Part 1, Beethoven, played by Suskind and Loesser, conducted by Ar...

•Mr. Ryan's posting yesterday, and Mr. Broadmoore's clarifying remarks posted this morning, fascinate me. Even though I have an Ampico, there are many situations when I would still like to 'play' the pieces through my computer's MIDI system. I would place my order today, except that there is still a...

•Robbie comments: >[ "Wind", "WindPlay" and "VIEW" all have very effective tools >[ for editing the on-screen image of the perforated music roll, >[ and all programs can read and write perforator control files. As regards WindPlay, this is not really accurate. WindPlay has no editing capabilities ex...

•Before the roll-reading debate dies away I would like to send this message to all of those out there who have knowledge of optical transcribing technique. Is there anyone out there who could offer for sale a fully functional optical transcriber system along with user friendly (Windows) software for...

•Andy asked about recording pianos with a camcorder. I have some experience with this in my "doing the sound" and videotaping our church services for public access TV. Unfortunately, almost all camcorders (and VCR's) have an automatic recording level device in the audio circuitry. No matter what you...

•For those MMD'ers interested in playing and/or creating electronic piano roll images or actually punching rolls, I offer two software products to accomplish this task. The "WindPlay" Roll Player "WindPlay" is used to play electronic roll images in various formats. The player accepts the file format...

•Greetings -- In the 990510 MMD, Robbie states, "Programs such as Wind and WindPlay, by Richard Brandle, convert the WEB data, in real time, into MIDI wireline signals for the PowerRoll and other magnet valve devices." I want to make it clear that WindPlay's MIDI wireline signals also operate MIDI s...