•The MIDster Punch system, plans for punching your own music rolls and books directly from MIDI files, has now completed eight successful years since I first published it at the beginning of 1999. Since then, hundreds of machines have been built, but alas, I suspect a great many MIDster projects hav...

•--non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD-- Just wondered if anyone saw the ad on eBay for the "Wurlitzer Band Organ Punch Machine Plans." It looks interesting, but I'd like to know more about it before I commit my $25 or so. Any experiences? Rich Sitler, Sitler Amusements [Yesterday's MMD c...

•I just purchased the drawing set for the Style 125 roll punching machine on eBay. These are offered by a well-known name: Randy Charles, who also publishes the Wurlitzer 105 building plans. After a cursory study of the drawing set, I believe that I can build it. It will take some learning to use so...

•I just read Tony's report on my punch (thank you, Tony), and all I can say is that I am very pleased with the response. I built mine because I wanted the ability to play paper rolls with music that is otherwise unavailable. My first punching was "The Entertainer." Sounds great, even though it has n...

•I have the following for sale: First, a Haughawout-made book punch (plus chair/stool). Has both a Bruder punch/die set as well as a Limonaire punch/die set. Second, a set of fixtures (jigs) for making cardboard books including a book press, a book copying machine to make stencils from existing book...

•The set of punches from the woodworking supply looks very nice and the handle is certainly a benefit for many uses. However, the punch sizes range from 3 to 30 mm only. The largest is a little less than 1-1/4". My high speed Internet connection is dead and I cannot take the hours it would take to b...

•The previous posting on this subject perhaps needs some clarification. The MIDster Punch booklet and software for building your own music roll punching machine is still available from me and I can be contacted at bobessex@aol.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] or for some more detail and ...

•Hi MMD, At the recent AMICA convention in Buffalo, New York, I watched Ray Dietz use a piano roll hole punch to repair rolls. This is a superior means of repairing a roll where the punchings are in need of repair. Player Piano Co. has not carried these punches in years and I've not been able to fin...

•Robert Streicher, the Pond Eddy, New York, machinist, used to make a neat spring-loaded music roll hole punch. You could specify the hole size and he would provide what you wanted. I have had one for years, and it still works like new. I think, though, that Mr. Streicher had to discontinue sale of ...

•Tom Hutchinson has requested about hole punches for editing or making rolls. All you need to do is to go to a craft store and buy hole punches for leather craft work. You can get 1/16 or 1/8 inch hole punches which is what I used in editing my rolls. All you need is an X-Acto knife and those punche...

•Paul Bell here in UK has built a superb computer-controlled machine to punch piano rolls, based on my MIDster Punch plans and software. It uses an old X-Y plotter. A video of it can be seen on my website: http://bobessex.co.uk . Although several people before Paul have made MIDster piano roll punch...

•I would like to purchase a MIDster paper roll punch designed by Bob Essex. If you have one for sale, or know of one that may be available, please contact me. Tom Griffith Hays, Kansas Tel.: 1-785-625-9677 [ Ref. http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/M/midster.html [ -- Robbie

•Tom Griffith wrote in 120112 MMDigest: > I would like to purchase a MIDster paper roll punch designed by > Bob Essex. If you have one for sale, or know of one that may be > available, please contact me. I would like to encourage anyone who is interested in punching their own player rolls to have a ...

•The piano roll hole punch was made by Robert Streicher for Player Piano Company (PPCo). He has been mentioned on previous MMD postings. The phone number I have is 570-559-7403. Don Teach - Shreveport Music Co. [ Robert "Bob" Streicher [ P. O. Box 39 [ Pond Eddy, New York 12770-0039 [ tel.: 1-570-55...

•Two requests were posted on the 12.01.25 MMD. Regarding Sankyo punch strips, I have sets of the punches, strips, etc., for sale. Re: calliope "A" roll, I have for sale a roll of Italian songs and arias, a very esoteric and obviously unusual roll. Please contact me at angelorulli@gmail.com.geentroep...

•Recent mention of Autotypists in the MMDigest reminded me that I have one I would like to sell. It is a single-letter model with manual Remington typewriter and includes the punch for making rolls. It is complete, or nearly so, and I would like $300 for it, picked up from my barn in western Massach...

•Hi, Last year a friend and myself purchased a book punching machine from Holland just for our personal use. Although it had a new set of punches for keyed music, it unfortunately did not have a circular punch and die for keyless music and my organ is a Wilhelm Bruder Söhne Model 77 which has holes ...

•One statement by Jonathan Holmes in yesterday's MMD about the book punching machine that he bought mystified me, the one where he said, "Although it had a new set of punches for keyed music, it unfortunately did not have a circular punch and die for keyless music." Admittedly I am a novice when it ...

•Greetings all, Jonathan Holmes had a query about what punches to use for book music. When I built my perforator I used "Rosspunch" mold release pins. They come in half-thousandth [inch] sizes and many different lengths. They appear to be hard enough to go through eight layers of roll paper without ...

•My experience in building and using a 20-note John Smith roll punch was described in a COAA Carousel Organ magazine article which is reprinted at http://www.wallace-venable.name/mechanical-music/Hand-Punching%20My%20Own%20Rolls%20from%20Midboek%20Templates,%20Venable.pdf Jonathan Holmes asked about...