The Mr.Christmas Holiday Merry-Go-Round is available at Menards for $49.98 after a $5.00 rebate cupon is sent in. Menards is a Wisconsin based hardware and building supply store and I don't know if they are a national organization or not, but folks in the upper midwest should be able to find it ther...

•Hi to all, in Digest 980408 Karl Ellison made a couple of comments about the '98 AMICA convention that I thought I should talk about. First and most important! The convention is in Niagara Falls, Canada, not Buffalo. If you go to Buffalo, New York, you will be very sur- prised. The general public w...

•Hi Mike, I haven't got a clue. The best I can do is forward your query to the Mechanical Music Digest. Maybe one of their 850+ members knows what you have and where you can get such a roll. Musically, John A. Tuttle --- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD --- From: mcarty526@aol.com (...

•Greetings, There hasn't been really a lot of feedback to Mr. Mark Forer's horror story about the handling of his Seeburg E [000412 MMD], so I thought I might as well stick my oar in. Much of this will be of little use to Mr. Forer at this point, but there are some things that we should all perhaps ...

Here's the latest. If you haven't yet participated and would like to, send a message to davem@vcd.hp.com like the following: • 11/61 (month and year of birth) Camas, WA 98607 (city) 47.9 (your guess for the average age) • Dave • Age Quantity --- -------- 11-15 16-20 ## 21-25 ## 26-30 ##### 31-35 ###...

•Joe Roesch's article on Latin was wonderful [Digest 980111, "'Ad hominem' Resolved']. It explained lots of parts that I have seen here and there and tied them up. I saved it to show my literary friend. He'll love it. Long ago someone told me that if I had to write a contract, write simply what I wa...

•Robbie wrote [following the article by Spencer Chase in MMD 980216]: >[ Peter's improvement is in the musical performance, which he is >[ creating by establishing the Theme level himself. His system is >[ not an improvement of the technology. I think he has trained >[ himself to emulate the action ...

•In response to John Tuttle's entry in MMD 980521, I have a few comments. I truly believe that MMD is a valuable resource that I enjoy reading and contributing to whenever possible. I look upon it primarily as a teaching forum, which is why I contribute primarily when I have some technical informati...

•Bruce Clark's posting on Tempo Problems in Spliced Medley Rolls (980421) and more recently Harvey Chao's comments on a mis-punched QRS roll (980525) and finally Tim Baxter's Maximum Notes-Per-Second on Piano Roll (980528) have spurred me into posing the following question for the wise men of the MM...

•[ In reply to Dan Wilson's letter in Digest 980605 ] MIDI enables one machine to send short messages to another that can turn a note on, or turn it off (yes, separate messages), or select a tone color, or effect some other change. A Note-On message does include not only a keynote (one of 128 pitche...

•I second Bill FInch's request in Digest 980624 for any references on designing (scaling, etc.) and building organ pipes, especially wooden. I've seen blueprints for "monkey" organs that implied that you merely had to cut the pieces per the drawings, glue them together, and presto, the pipes would s...

•Hello Tammy, Your message in the MMD 980802: > Can anyone tell me when Reuge purchased Thorens? > Also does anyone know where I could get a price list or guide on > Thorens disc music boxes and disc? I can't give you a correct answer to your first question. I think, it must be between 15 and 25 yea...

•Hi Everybody, In MMD 980812 Tom Thompson asked about 65-note APP Christmas rolls to play on his Stinson Caliola. I have a Wurlitzer Caliola (with drums) that came with a Christmas roll. It is an original roll with no tune label but it is stamped 6120 and wrote underneath Caliola 6120. The box is a ...

•Frank Himpsl's comments in MMD 980912 (Ragtime on Ampico Rolls) are right on the money. I have just one addition, regarding his comment on Black Ampico artist. I'm sure Frank already knows this and just forgot it off the top of his head (he knows ten time what I know about music rolls). For the ben...

•John Dewey asked about his Solo Carola Inner Player [981104 MMDigest]. There was a discussion on this last year. John Phillips said there were a number in Tasmania and a good one in Melbourne. I'd seen the latter and contributed this in MMDigest 970505 :- -- quote -- From: dwilz@cix.compulink.co.uk...

•John A. Tuttle asked in 981124 MMDigest: > In my on-going pursuit of knowledge, I ask that anyone possessing > any scientific studies on the factors that effect the stability of > a piano tuning, please forward those studies to me or tell me where > to find them. My highly uncontrolled response to ...

•Hello MMD readers, In the 981205 issue of the MMD, I submitted the following text, with the incorrect spelling of the famous Maine explorer: > The narrow pianos were designed for the yachting trade, and one of > these instruments is on Eagle Island today, in Casco Bay, Maine -- > the property of Ad...

•Re: Reproducing Pianos in UK Collections (981217 MMDigest). On Julian Dyer's article on this subject yesterday, it should be noted that quite a few collectors in the UK have chosen not to submit a list to the PPG, so the list is only of officially "known" instruments. The statistical spread of type...

•Re: Seek "Secret of Tuning Fretted Instruments", MMDIgest 981229 Miles, I don't know the article you mention; anyway, I would suggest another item on the same subject; maybe you are interested. There is a book devoted to unequal temperaments, which contains a chapter on practical fretting instructi...

•Douglas Henderson pleads the case for correct Duo-Art terminology in MMDigest 981228. The fly in the ointment is that the term "half Duo-Art" for a pedal- operated instrument -- which employs only half the dynamic codes provided on the rolls and possesses only half the usual number of control mecha...