•A note to all of you who have Disklaviers, PianoDiscs or Pianomation units in your pianos. I just purchased Richard Brandle's WindPlay (fifty smackers) and Wayne Stahnke's software disc ($140 plus tax and shipping), and together they are sensational. Wayne's disc holds about 780 pieces altogether: ...

•I will be offering a CD with 100 Duo-Art popular titles within the next couple of weeks. The cost will be $50. Most of the rolls are scanned and it is only necessary to process them and make the master. These rolls will be in MIDI format for use with a MIDI player and will also be in BAR/ANN format...

•Within about a week I should have my Duo-Art popular e-roll CD finished. Then everyone can judge for themselves the performances of Armbruster and others even if they do not own a reproducing piano. It is best to listen to the rolls with a genuine Duo-Art connected to a PowerRoll, although a reason...

•Jill Miller said, "No advertisements for selling your own rolls should be placed on MMD. I don't think this is the place to advertise your wares." Admittedly I have a vested interest in this subject but I totally disagree with Jill's point of view. I joined MMD because it was a unique facility wher...

•I have the empty box for Ampico "Christmas Greetings 1925", and I thought maybe somebody probably has the roll sans box and needs it to complete their set. Send me a snappy Duo-Art or Ampico fox-trot and it's yours. John D. Rutoskey [ I'd love to have the series of five Ampico Christmas rolls (1925...

•Jim Cook asked, "Is there any way to extract the information from a Pianomation CD-ROM, say as a MIDI file?" It's very simple if you have a Pianomation system. Feed the left channel from the CD to the Pianomation system. On the Pianomation system there is a MIDI out. This will convert all of the in...

•It seems that the Yamaha Disklavier solenoid piano fails miserably every time it is used to interpret something that began as a pneumatic piano performance. I suggest, Douglas, that we put together 16 Ampicos or Duo-Arts on stage with a large theater organ with extra large toy counter, and program ...

•I'm in the need of a little help. Does anyone out there have a list of the numbers and functions for a Duo-Art tracker bar? My manuals don't seem to show the information I need. They show the function locations on the trackerbar but no location numbers. I'm trying to do a re-map, using WindPlay, so...

•Hello fellow travelers, I have been following, with great interest over the last couple of years, the discussions (or exchanges, if that better fits them) on the subject of transcribing piano paper rolls into electronic data files. Doing this is no longer a mere wish but a reality. This has allowed...

•In the last MMD, Larry Broadmoore made a very important statement that I would like to mention again. He said: > However, most rolls on most instruments do not play optimally, and > at a minimum, the PowerRoll affords a rare and exciting window into > the intention of the manufacturer of these inst...

•Albert, I have tried to do the same thing with a notebook computer as you, with no success. All of the notebook units I have seen must be connected though a box of some sort. The best units I have seen connect to the USB port of the notebook. The 'boxes' I have seen are usually a little larger than...

•I was wondering if anyone knows of, or has excess to information regarding the format that the Ampico editing staff used for their expression coding. Was there a particular method or format that they constantly adhered to or what? I am trying to understand as much as I can in the hope of successful...

•Fellow MMD'ers: I haven't noticed any report about the joint MBSI and AMICA meeting which took place at Mike Ames' Solana Instruments museum last weekend as part of various club activities. In case no one has mentioned it, I'd like to thank Mike and his wife Marilyn for hosting another great day ja...

•I will be giving a demonstration of my scanning system at the Sacramento AMICA convention. I will also be demonstrating a logging system for recording piano vacuum levels while performing. The data obtained from this recording is being used in the development of emulation software for the reproduci...

•Harald Mueller mentions wanting a player with pipes. I think he means tubes for the pneumatic action, not wires and solenoids. An 88-note pumper comes to mind. I would have a Steinway Duo-Art upright which gives the ability to play 88-note rolls with manual expression and the wide range of Themodis...

•I'd seen the name of Ricky Diggs several times on MMD and had read very positive comments regarding his skills of reproducing in wood "almost everything". I was contemplating making a special designed piano bench for my recently acquired Chickering baby grand with Ampico A, which would serve to hou...

•Calibrating a solenoid piano to give an Ampico-type rendition by these (MIDI) "E-rolls" depends upon many things. One important thing is the calibration of the MIDI processor to the power range of the particular piano it is installed in, and the calibration of the MIDI levels in the program used to...

•I will be releasing some new CDs of MIDI and BAR/ANN files made from Original Duo-Art Piano Rolls. 504 new titles will be available soon. I am just making the final files conversions into the many different formats that will provided. I will then be the world leader in Duo-Art E-Rolls with nearly 9...

•Since no one has answered it yet, here is the answer to the question regarding the pallet valve on the soft pedal pneumatic. It is supposed to be connected with a tee to the signal tube to the number two accompaniment dynamic valve. This causes the number two accordion pneumatic to close whenever t...

•I have recently added a 7-rank Aeolian player pipe organ with harp and chimes to my collection. I could use some advice from other MMDers who have some experience with these things, as I am a total novice when it comes to pipe organs. It came with the original electro-pneumatic switching unit and a...