•If one is planning to build up a self-playing accordion, I suggest using band organ rolls for a better effect. "O" rolls are basically piano music, while band organ rolls are arranged in parts -- bass, melody, etc. -- and have sustained notes that show off an accordion. A common men's size piano ac...

•I am new to the band organ world. Recently I added an 'Organeze' electronic player (http://www.organeze.freeserve.co.uk) to my 61-note Gedeckt pipes. If I added more pipes, what would be the most useful addition? There was talk about a 3-note trumpet rank in another post. What notes would they be? ...

•For sale: 77- key "Arburo", book operated, Art Deco front with Accordion and Saxophone. Melody division: Accordion, Jazz flutes, Vibratones, Violin celeste, cello/trumpet, 5 registers. Counter melody: cello, Viool Celest, Saxophone, Accordion. Accompaniment: Violin Cello, Accordion. Bass: Cello, Bo...

•Music or noise? It's in the ear of the beholder. I have demonstrated my grind organ in very quiet rooms where I felt the music was too loud for the situation, or where the sound might carry into an adjacent room, so I threw a blanket over the organ. This reduced the volume. A blanket over a band or...

•I am preparing to record some Christmas music on the Aeolian organ and one of the rolls is "Cantique de Noel" (O Holy Night) played by Archer Gibson. My copy of that roll, 3618, is in mint condition, but the copy was made late in production and shows many perforation errors. There are hanging chads...

•Following up on Jim Williams posting in the 070826 MMDigest (http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200708/2007.08.26.05.html), I'd like to offer for sale a complementary set of Artizan A1 or A2 band organ parts. Between the two of us you'd have a kit that would make up most of an organ. What I ha...

•I am submitting here the stop-list of the Salomons organ as published in the exhibition catalogue by Andrew Pilmer and Thomas Jansen. Maybe they can say which ranks plays with which roll-playing system; so I am sending a copy of this mail to Tom Jansen too. Kind regards, Gerhard Dangel Augustinermu...

•John Farrell's latest A-roll John Farrell's latest A-roll is now available. Here are the tunes: A-6 1. Birmingham Breakdown 2. Joe Turner Blues 3. No, No Nora 4. Toy Trumpet 5. Cryin' For The Carolines 6. Smashing Thirds 7. Mississippi Stomp 8. Swipesy Cakewalk 9. Usen't You Used To Be My Sweetie? ...

•John Farrell's latest A-roll is now available. Here are the tunes: A-6 1. Birmingham Breakdown 2. Joe Turner Blues 3. No, No Nora 4. Toy Trumpet 5. Cryin' For The Carolines 6. Smashing Thirds 7. Mississippi Stomp 8. Swipesy Cakewalk 9. Usen't You Used To Be My Sweetie? As usual, his arrangements ar...

•Hi Group, Some arrangers make my Wurlitzer 146-A, which has no automatic registers, sound as though it did. I really like David Stumpf's arrangements on roll 13408 and "Great Moments In American Music, Volume One". His arrangements allow certain registers to, in effect, play solo. Some of Tom Meije...

•For Les Higger (080915 MMDigest): One note lower for F is not E but E-flat. F-sharp becomes E. There is more to consider than just tuning the organ. If the organ is designed for a certain pitch, tuning it one note lower could make the slides or stoppers loosen in the pipe causing the pipe to go off...

•Hello all, The recent topic about Bushkill Park in Easton, Pennsylvania, and it's carousels and organs brought back some memories. First, Justin Senneff wanted to know the maker of that organ in the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHtO0uD3a74 I can do no better than to quote my own comments o...

•As Art Reblitz reminded us recently, his book, "The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments," has a large appendix of musical scales, excerpted from his "Treasures of Mechanical Music," a very comprehensive encyclopedia of mechanical musical instrument scales of all kinds. Art's appendix shows ...

•[ In 090410 MMDigest, "Tuning North Tonawanda Band Organ", [ Alan Erb wrote: > A set of brass has some half-length resonators, and it is imperative > to get correct resonators assigned to their proper note and octave. To further an understanding of the resonator length of the Wurlitzer and North To...

•I am a carousel operator in Burnaby, British Columbia. We have a Wurlitzer 146b organ that only plays when the ride is going. The carousel is inside an air-conditioned building. In order to protect our hearing, we have agreed to turn off the piercing trumpet pipes. As a result, the organ isn't as l...

•Thank you all for your great responses to my last question! Now here comes another one. I spent a delightful day on the island of Martha's Vineyard at the Flying Horses Carousel, America's oldest. That carousel has a really beautiful Wurlitzer 103. Something about the sweet, clear tone of that orga...

•I read Peter Mintun's post; I continue to be amazed at the people that post here -- such talent and abilities! I personally am not sure if I lack the training, ability or confidence, or all. I work with my best friend as mainly a helper in player pianos. I do mainly the trouble shooting and grunt w...

•If the Stinson 165 band organ at Cooperstown does indeed have "all the pipe work and instrumentation of a full-sized Wurlitzer Style 165 band organ," I would be very interested knowing that, because it would be a first. I am assuming from the words quoted that it has all 256 of the pipes in a Wurli...

•I should note that tune 3 on the CD, "The Waltz of the Zebras," was identified as "Smarty" on YouTube by Andrew Park (wurlitzer165). I only passed it on to the rest of the community via the MMD. John Merchant [ Tune 11, "The Royal Lion's March", reminds me of "Lights Out!" [ by E. E. McCoy, 1906. M...

•The Wurlitzer 150 band organ scale is written as if the organ were in the key of C. The 150 organ actually plays one whole step lower, so each note marked C in the scale actually sounds Bb. This is similar to the hand-played Bb clarinet and trumpet, which play notes a whole step lower than the note...