•Hi Charles! A good place to start looking for information about your organ is the web site http://theatreorgans.com/ [ "The Theatre Organ Home Page" is also presented without frames [ at http://theatreorgans.com/main.asp -- Robbie The web site includes a database of theatre organ installations. Fro...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I am the owner of Die Klockwerken Antique Clock Repair in Cleveland, Ohio, and I have been commissioned to build a barrel organ clock mechanism for a customer I have. It turns out that there are more people who would like to buy this contraption ...

•Ron, Your most recent inquiry provoked me into checking out an old reference I had forgotten about (God, I hate growing old... :-( Here's what I found: Wurlitzer 125 band organ roll; 6" wide; 0.1227" per space 5 Bass notes 9 Accompaniment notes 14 Melody notes 13 Trumpet notes 1 - Shutoff 2 - Snare...

•John Kadlec wrote in 010221 MMDigest: > Included with the organ was a small book which plays all notes of > the scale in sequence, and then plays various octaves and intervals. This book is for tuning and other diagnostic purposes much like a player piano test roll. I have towed my 81-key Wilhelm B...

•The layout of the tracker bar scale for the Aeolian Duo-Art pipe organ player roll system is listed below. The odd-numbered holes are the lower row which plays the lower manual (Great) and the Pedal. The even-numbered holes are the upper row which plays the upper manual (Swell). lower row upper row...

•Does anyone here own (or have access to) a Wurlitzer style 146 (not 146A or 146B) band organ, the organ in the 146 family having 16 display violins in the upper half of the facade and tall but narrow fabric-covered windows on either side of those display pipes? I want to know whether the 146 has dr...

•To answer the questions about Moeller Artiste and their player system, I have one of the old girls. Mine was built for Alexander McCurdy of Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. I have documentation of his having sent a box of cigars to Mr. Moeller. Mr. Moeller did special voicing of the organ for McCu...

•Hello MMDer's, Just though I 'wood' :) add my 2 cents worth, since this is the profession I have been doing for the last 23 years -- replicating and restoring antique furniture and automatic musical instruments. To me this is a simple question; the answer is "It's what the client wants and is willi...

•I can understand some of the realities which underlie John Tuttle's concerns over the relative longevities of solenoid player systems. He is correct that there have been more than a few instances wherein at least two manufacturers discontinued repair parts for earlier versions of their systems. Tho...

•The decibel debacle Regarding Glenn Morris' posting on the Johnson 163 band organ in Salem, Oregon [021208 MMDigest]. As I have been outspoken before, probably due to advancing age on my part, please indulge another semi-rant. I am very surprised that Johnson has not made a response to this (unless...

•Hi there MMD'rs and Art Thompson. I have been following the articles about the continued trouble with the Johnson band organ at the Salem Riverfront Carousel. It does sound like from your post that the organ may have some definite design trouble in its operational systems. I also cannot believe tha...

•An observation: Some time ago I purchased a Style 153 Wurlitzer band organ, which seemed to play quite nicely, or so I thought at the time. I had a "great" roll which I couldn't wait to hear on the organ. I installed the roll and ... what a disappointment! It did not sound great, good, or even tole...

•Hello MMD readers, This is a posting which continues with the subject of player roll artist, Pauline Alpert, in light of the audio recordings she made. Some time ago, I wrote a series for the AMICA player club magazine, and issued a tape cassette that complemented one of the texts, called "Where's ...

•Mike Knudsen's question about the Wurlitzer Caliola scale brought to mind several questions about the conversion of Wurlitzer 165 band organs to using the Caliola roll: how, when, why? The Caliola scale is chromatic, the Wurlitzer Style 165 band organ is decidedly not, and furthermore has a separat...

•Hello all, This is from another list but since it is a player I am hoping someone can find a home for it. Thanks, Philip A. Underwood - - - Holiday Greetings from Dallas ~!~ I am making one final plea to save a historically significant organ. The North Texas Chapter has, for nearly a year, been agg...

•Hi all, This is an "ad" for my web site http://www.haraldmmueller.de I finally found time to update it. The main change is that all the MP3s now play the full arrangements; I think that most people now have a fast(er) Internet access so that MP3s below 1MB are no longer a problem. Also, I finally s...

•Dear Robbie, It seems like years, but for the last few months I have been building parts that will someday be assembled to create my first construction project, a Wurlitzer 104/105. (Restorations not included). I began today to write to MMD, to see if I could procure an original Trumpet pipe, which...

•So I'm riding home down US33 from Columbus the other night and inadvertently tune to the classical station. There was Carl Haas explaining how Beethoven's 'Wellington's Victory' was written for Maelzel's "contraption," a.k.a. the Panharmonicon. Now, I know we've discussed this instrument here a bit...

•I just wanted to comment on John Tuttle's observations about the decrease in sentimentality of player pianos translating into people being less willing to spend needed money on them. He interestingly also related this trend to a huge decrease in band participation by young people. I have been think...

•I have made up two player accordions which, while rather crude, were fun for me and were also enjoyed by the public when displayed and playing. One played from Wurlitzer 125 rolls and the other from Wurlitzer 165 rolls. I suggest to avoid use of a lady's size accordion as the reeds are too small to...