•Will/Irma Herzog wrote at 981007 MMDigest in answer to my proposals: >> Indeed you can play RealAudio v5 on a Win v3.1x platforms - >> RealNetworks Inc. (http://real.com) offers RealPlayer v5.0.0.32 >> (16bit), which you can use standalone or as a plugin to your >> web-browser. > I have tried this...

•[ Linda Wessels asked in MMD 981018: ] > How much is a tall red mahogany Columbia victrola worth? > It has no horn, is this possible? Maybe, if the horn is inherent in the cabinet. Open the doors on the front, give the needle a bit of a brushing with your finger, and listen for a grumbling from ins...

•Following Craig Brougher's article in MMDigest 981104 I commented: >[ Some pop songs bother me when the music accelerates, and some >[ songs don't. Both my Ampico B and the Duo-Art pumper have excellent >[ motor-speed regulation, and the effect is the same with either piano >[ -- I find that I slow...

•In MMD 981107 Reyah Carlson asked what and where the Themodist is: The Themodist (Aeolian's trademark), as well as other maker's similar systems like Solodant, is a device which causes most of the notes in a piece to play at a constant, low volume. Certain notes, usually the main melody line as wel...

•Robbie writes [MMDIgest 981126]: >[ Like too many other columnists, I feel that this author writes simply >[ to entertain his audience with opinion and speculation. It's a shame >[ that, after hearing the yet-to-be-released CD, he didn't bother to >[ hear Rachmaninoff's audio recordings, or recordi...

•In 981211 MMDigest Paddy Handscombe (there's a D in the name, Robbie !) said: > As far as we know, no Steck pianos were made in Britain until > after WW1, when heavy duties were applied to German imports. > Before the war 'European' Stecks were made at the Gotha factory > of Ernst Munck, which Aeol...

•In MMDigest 981218 Jeffrey Borinsky reported that a new review had appeared in a British periodical, New Scientist, about Wayne Stahnke's new CD, "A Window in Time." That issue arrived in my local Chapter's book store this afternoon and I bought it, brought it home and scanned it. The article itsel...

•Damon Atchison asked about the Estey Child's Organ in 981225 MMDigest. At $20 you can't go wrong. A couple of years ago I looked for one to restore for my granddaughter and found three priced from $75 for a junker to about $300 in mint original condition. I bought the junker but it was still restor...

•Several days ago [MMD 981231], when I sent information that I would be reproducing Rolmonica rolls, I listed an incomplete URL for my web page. The correct URL is http://www.actionwebcreations.com/smr Ed Schmidt Schmidt's Music Rolls [ If the URL above doesn't work try http://209.24.29.72/smr/index...

•I just got around to reading MMDigest 981222, which I had to download and then forgot about during my travels. I noticed Gary Rasmussen's inquiry about Regina automatic changers, and don't recall having seen a response. These curved-front Regina 15-1/2" disc changers will sell at auction from $15,0...

•I'm using Windows 98SE, but this may not work with other systems. Go to Start/Settings/Folder Options and click the File Types tag. Then search down the list for RealPlayer. If it's missing (you removed it, didn't you?) type "N" and backtrack to "MP3" on the list. Then simply edit this item to tell...

•I don't recall this being mentioned in the MMD, although there have been reviews of several of these recordings in the MBSI Journal as well as in the MBSoGB's Music Box. Nimbus Records is in the process of issuing a lengthy set of CD's devoted to the reproducing piano. They present major performanc...

•Andy and Chris Taylor (Tempola Music Rolls) wrote in the 98.03.09 digest: > A renowned pianist is rather a strange creature anyway. Sure. Think of Robbie Rhodes. > I have met enough of them to know that they don't take well to criticism. Hello, Robbie ? > But I have yet to see anyone sit down and "...

•In a message dated 98-05-08 Ray Fairfield writes: > The center of gravity of an object can only move if it is acted on > by an outside force .... Friends, the principles previously enumerated presume straight-line acceleration, which is incorrect. Piano hammers travel in an arc. While the hammer sh...

•At 09:32 PM 9/26/98 -0700, Irma Herzog wrote: > Whoops. > > You also must have RealAudio 5, which runs on Windows95 or Windows98 > only [and probably requires a Pentium processor]. Those of us with > old Windows 3.11, can only use RealAudio 3, and the site doesn't > handle that. We get the message ...

•At 12:20 PM 10/11/98 -0700, Dave Krall wrote: > Hi all. I am looking for a motor generator set of a particular type. > It is a unit where the motor and generator are self contained in one > oblong case. It has four mounting feet cast into the base of the unit. > It should be 1/4 HP, 110 volts, AC (...

•Harvey Chao wrote in 981231 MMDigest, and Jody commented: > I was a Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco yesterday, and paused at > the San Francisco Music Box Shop's window to see what they offered. > One item was a Reuge music box with 4 interchangeable cylinders, each > cylinder perhaps 1-1/8 inch...

•I don't understand why people expect computers to do things that they would not expect of any other appliance. Would you buy a new dishwasher and be alarmed that it took the gilt off of your 200-year-old dishes? Do you consider your CD player to be inadequate if it will not play your 45 rpm records...

•I don't understand why Jonathan Holmes seems to have experienced such a drubbing in expressing his opinion on this matter. The MMD is a discussion forum amongst other things and we need lively discussion and vociferous opinions. Surely it is these that keep our enthusiasm and our minds fresh and al...

•Just for those of you who've never been and haven't yet found a good excuse to travel this far: ex-Irvin's 89-key Marenghi with Anderton & Rowland's 98-key Marenghi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCpkKARmMhA A few Gaviolis knocking around the place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZN7xT-NwM0 After...