•[ Fritz is temporarily un-subscribed, so "please reply to sender [ and MMD." I am adding MIDI to my North Tonawanda band organ, which plays the Wurlitzer 150 scale. I had planned to use the MIDI scale for the Artisan 48 key or North Tonawanda 49 key organs used by Galen Byrd and others which runs o...

•Does anyone out there have an early 3-tune or 5-tune Wurlitzer band organ spoolbox with wooden sides, either for sale or available for me to borrow? I don't need the tracker bar. A similar, but not identical unit was also used in early Pianinos and Mandolin Quartettes. In 1976 we restored the Wurli...

•Hi folks, The weather was great and the crowd was large for the Milhous auction in Florida. Now for the pertinent details. If anyone wants any specific prices, please contact me directly. I'm skipping the non-musical items and will mention only a few not sold items. Berliner gramophone (that many f...

•I was interested to hear from Robbie that Andy LaTorre has built a similar organ to mine. As requested here are a few more lines. My organ also uses real percussion, only the organ tones are electronic. The percussion instruments are played by electromagnets, I have used pipe organ pallet magnets f...

•Again Ingmar Krause writes: > Now I'm confused. First, what is a "larger" organ? Second, do you > crank _all_ of the time? > > When choosing an organ, the ease of play should not be important. > My reasons are: If you like your organ, then you will practice, > until you are able to play all day lon...

•Hello Folks, I write to you from Canada's fair capitol city of Ottawa, where I am currently on tour with the Stratford Festival, at the National Arts Centre until November 29. What a treat to start my day with the Digest. But darn these notebook keyboards ;-) This thread about the destined-to-crack...

•Hi All, It's been a while since I contributed anything to MMD. I've been busy restoring a few organs. One in particular is the Mortier organ playing the 165 Wurlitzer rolls. Upon further examination of the scale, plus the performance of the organ, I had come to the conclusion that Wurlitzer messed ...

•[ Re "Mortier Organ Plays Wurlitzer 165 Music Rolls", MMD 981118 ] I'm late with this, but as I mentioned, we are homeless now and I haven't accessed MMD or other email for the past week. In MMD for 98-11-18 Gordy Forcier wrote, about the register setup of the Wurlitzer 165 system: > According to t...

•There are no rules for organ pipe tone. Common wisdom among pipe makers is as follows: For flute-like pipes -- Fat pipes are duller sounding than thin pipes. Soft material pipes are duller than pipes made with hard materials. Stopped pipes are duller than open pipes. High wind pressures produce few...

•Having conquered most of my jet lag, I found the info sheet on Australia Fair, the 74-key Verbeeck street organ spied in Hobart, Tasmania. It was completed in late 1992 and has 442 pipes. It rides on a trailer, is 4 m high x 6 m wide x 1.5 m deep and weighs 2.5 ton(ne)s. In addition to pipes has 24...

•English Fair Organs vs. American Band Organs, A Musical Difference? Dear MMDers, I'd like to make a couple comments on the sounds of various organs. Tim Trager and Douglas Bush have written so well about it. Tim says: > When one thinks of the American Band Organ sound, one usually > thinks of a Wur...

•I would very much like to hear from anyone who could supply me with an actual Mortier 'Flute 8' (counter-melody) rank of pipes. I need 18 pipes in total covering 'C' to 'F' (true pitch) for my 84-key Mortier Orchestrion. I would also be interested in a Mortier Piston (trumpet) rank for the Melody, ...

•Re: 990505 MMDigest Seeburg G and H Orchestrions, as well as just about every other American-made coin-operated piano with Violin pipes, as well as just about every American-made A-roll piano with violin pipes, would show no improvement with European made Violin pipes. The music rolls are just not ...

•Dave Brown asked whether Jasper Sanfilippo's Wurlitzer with the brass horns was a 163, 164, or 168. My bet is that Dave was looking at the Wurlitzer 180 which Jasper purchased last year from Jim Wells and had overhauled by Mike Kitner. Jasper also bought several years earlier Jim's Wurlitzer 165 --...

•Hello everyone. I have a few designs for instruments rolling around in my head (size and exact picture or tubing diagram not accounted for) such as a mini dance/band organ which uses Pianino coin piano rolls and based on the format of the Wurlitzer "kiddie" organ. That's an "M" roll instrument whic...

•Cuban Organ Sounds from Holland Robbie Rhodes was very enthusiastic about a musical saw performance, in his comment on Tim Trager's subject "Orchestrions With Animated Musical Novelties" (990822 MMD). I think that he and many other MMD-readers will be surprised to learn that there is a recording of...

•In answer to Harvey Chao's question, the answer is "both." The typical reed stop in a pipe organ is a beating reed type of pipe, but there are some relatively few reed sounds that are produced by flue pipes. The study of organ reeds can be quite involved but this is the simple answer. Many other st...

•Harvey, To answer your question about "reed" stops on a pipe organ, the answer in short is "Yes". In general, reed stops really do have vibrating reeds in them. The shape, size, dimensions of the reed and the resonator (the long tube portion that is visible) all determine the final tone of the stop...

•Ingmar Krause in MMD 000121 made the following comment regarding one of organs made by Rudolf Bruns: > Bruns -- also builds a 20er in his very own style, as well as > a reconstruction, or even better: a new construction, around > a few rolls found on a flea-market => the original organ is unknown! ...

•Hello, I have recently purchased a property that has an old pipe organ and wish to find out the value because I want to sell it. The only knowledge I have is what the son of the deceased owner has told me. He has stated the following to me. "The main part of the organ is a rank 5 manual Mighty Wurl...