•John Tuttle's request for a music box repairman in the Philadelphia area caught my eye, and then I realized that the owner of the box John describes probably needs someone with more cabinetry skills than mechanical and musical skills. Every now and then the MBSI web site gets a similar request, and...

•Over the first weekend in May, the Amateur Organ Builders (AOB) group held its first workshop meeting at the estate of Peter and Rosemarie Hood, near to Ramsgate, Kent, England. Peter is more familiarly known in organ circles as Rollcutter.com, supplier of music rolls. The previously stormy weather...

•A friend of mind in Lewisham, South London, England is moving house soon and wishes to sell 2 x clockwork barrel pianos: one is a Wintle-ised 48-note(?) with 15 tunes, some are double chorus 'tunes'; the other is a Pasquale with clockwork motor inside the barrel and marquetry case in need of some r...

•This year's AOB Weekend, hosted by Peter and Rosemarie Hood, otherwise known as rollcutter.com, is to be held at their extensive site near Ramsgate, Kent, England, over the weekend of 28th to 30th of May 2005. Those who attended the meeting last year will not need to be told of the superb quality o...

•Dear MMDers, On Tuesday, 8th November, 2005, the auction house of Artcurial-Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F.Tajan will be holding an important auction of musical boxes, singing birds and snuff boxes, at its Hôtel Dassault Gallery in Paris: Hôtel Dassault 7-9 Rond Point des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris Tuesda...

•Hello! Stockholms Auktionsverk, the oldest auction house in the world, have a Nechada barrel organ (sharmanka) on the Russian auction in Sweden, the 9th of December. See http://www.auktionsverket.se/ Lars Sweden [ Information at http://www.auktionsverket.se/ryskinlamninge.htm and [ http://www.aukti...

•> Look on the front cover of the latest AMICA Bulletin, > September/October 2005, which features a beautiful Duo-Art > baby grand piano. Is that an Ampico roll in the drawer? The piano pictured is mine, the roll is a late Duo-Art roll. The piano has the later fan-system Duo-Art mechanism in it. The...

•I once looked at a Steinway Duo-Art on Central Park West in New York City: Louis XV case, in beautiful walnut; the serial numbers puts it at 1932. It had an Ampico drawer with a Duo-Art tracker and fan accordions. It seems to me that, rather than produce extended case pianos that can only be used f...

•In a comment Robbie wrote in the 060118 MMDigest: >[ Margrave: the English equivalent of Margraf, the German hereditary >[ title of nobility that originally meant a military lord or keeper >[ of the borders. It's correct, except for the spelling: the German word is Markgraf. In Germany a Markgraf o...

•Amateur organ builders (and those contemplating being so, or in the stages of building an organ) and their wives and partners are invited by Peter and Rosemarie Hood to attend the 3rd annual Rollcutter Rendezvous, to be held at their extensive premises at St Nicholas-at-Wade, Birchington, Kent, UK...

•I am very pleased to see that there could be an amateur organ builders rendezvous in the USA. The one we have in the UK, put on by Peter and Rosemarie Hood, has become the leading event of the year for a growing number of builders. We all go to many steam fairs, etc., throughout the year and see an...

•Hey Bob, I saw your posting to the MMD. I have seen three T-100 roll cabinets over the years. In each case, the cabinet matched the piano either in veneers, marquetry or style. T-100 pianos were so costly when new that the owner could afford the custom cabinetry. One example was a Steinway grand in...

•Baillie Scott and Charles Rennie Mackintosh were hugely influential in architecture and fine art and design around a century ago, as the new Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool demonstrates, not least because Mackintosh and his wife visited Klimt and helped forge the Viennese Secession. Thus ...

•In the 080710 MMD, Michael Lawrence asks about pictures of a Molinari street organ. I have attached a picture of the organ formerly owned by the late Harvey and Marion Roehl. While the case shown is a newly constructed one, they owned the badly deteriorated original, and this is as nearly an exact ...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- We have a number of nickelodeons and musical boxes that will be auctioned off May 30 & 31, 2009, here at StageCoach Stop USA. See http://www.stagecoachstop.com/ or http://www.nortonauctioneers.com/ Here is the list of mechanical music items: Seeb...

•[ Ref. 090809 MMDigest, French Barrel Piano by Vuarin Le Guy ] Dear MMDs, Probably this barrel piano came from "Amelotti factory", a well-known firm in the first decade of 20th century in France (location: Nice, south-east). They marketed their products through several agents 'round the country, as...

•Just in case you need a Yale Wonder Clock to complete your collection of combination coin-operated Regina disc player / Waterbury clock / gambling machines, one is coming up at auction September 18 & 19 in Virden, Illinois. In case you plan to bid on it, you may want to bring an extra credit card. ...

•In 1982 and 1983, the late Terry Borne, a pipe organ and orchestrion technician and avid H-roll enthusiast from Louisville, Kentucky, commissioned me to arrange several ragtime pieces for a new style H orchestrion roll, including "Maple Leaf Rag," "Grace and Beauty," "Frog Legs," and "Silver Swan."...

•On Sunday, 10th July, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., there will be the annual Box Hill Summer Fair at the top of Box Hill in Surrey and, as usual, there will be a very large mechanical music marquee where members of the Musical Box Society of Great Britain (MBSGB) play instruments all day. We have everyth...

•I have a Kimball upright, 88-note player in need of complete rebuild, serial no. 308093 (1918), in a "Mission Oak" or "Arts & Crafts" case similar to some coin-operated piano cases, like Marquette. Located in upstate South Carolina. Photos on request. Make offer. John Bartlett Woodruff, South Carol...