•Dear MMDers: I am interested in creating new Green Welte-Mignon titles from late Welte Licensee rolls. Many collectors believe that late Licensee rolls represent some of the most interesting and dynamic performances in the entire Welte library. I need a group of Green Welte owners who will commit t...

•Dear MMD: I have produced two new Green Welte-Mignon titles, translated from late issue Welte-Mignon Licensee rolls. Many collectors believe that late Licensee rolls represent some of the most interesting and dynamic performances in the entire Mignon library. The two titles that are available and r...

•Does a manual exist for the German-built Green Welte? I see lots of listings for all the other Welte machines, but only vague references to the Green Welte, and these are all 15 years back. I would dearly like a manual, a tubing chart, a tracker scale, etc. For those of you who have tackled one of ...

•In response to the MMD posting of Mr. Skip Downing, I know of no manual available today for the T-98 Welte Mignon (green) system. Some years ago Frank Adams reprinted some charts showing the expression units and related valve chests as well as the installation manual for T-98 pianos. Other than tha...

•I have a copy of a Welte-Mignon T-98 Service Manual in German and had it translated to English a few years ago. I would be glad to share this manual with Skip Downing or any other parties seriously interested in rebuilding a "Green" Welte-Mignon system. The layout of the tracker bar can be found in...

•Hi All, I know the "Green" Welte had the note holes available to play 86 notes but I recall hearing many years ago that there was one or maybe more that only had an 80-note action stack. The only Green Welte I have seen was several years ago on the European AMICA convention and I did not inquire at...

•The ordinary "Green" Welte instruments play 88 notes, not 86. The T-98 system was sold to restaurants, cafés and saloons under the name "Welte-Pianon", normally but not always with a cheap "Tormin" piano. The rolls for a Welte-Pianon are identical to Welte-green rolls, but have other spools. Specia...

•Hi All, I wish to thank Hans-W. Schmitz for his answer to my question [130414 MMDigest], but I now am somewhat confused. My original statement, that I understood the T-98 System could play 96 notes, was based on the tracker bar scale given in a book I have, "The Marvelous World of Music Machines," ...

•Hello, I am looking for a few people who might want to participate in an ongoing T-98 Green Welte recut project. Is anyone interested? Please contact me either via email or on the MMD. Thanks, Tim Baxter - Meliora Music Rolls Atlanta, Georgia perforator@mindspring.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep"...

•Just to say that I'm happy to scan any T98 Welte rolls in the UK, and have contributed my scans to Tim Baxter's project. Now I have a T98 instrument, and realised that its rolls can be cut on a normal 100-channel perforator as used for Ampico rolls, I strongly support any initiative to make more ro...

•For sale here in the U.K.: 43 Green Welte T-98 original rolls in nice condition. I have a full list if you want. Please get in touch. Brian Chesters tel.: 07784 713 866 [ Welte Green T-98 rolls for sale. 1 [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/21/01/29/210129_150536_image.jpg [ Welte Green T-98 ro...

•I am seeking a player technician in the Green Bay, Wisconsin, area or willing to travel there. The subject is a Story and Clark player. The player mechanism has been rebuilt but the customer doesn't know how to install it and regulate the linkages. Please call me at 1-810-334-6877 if you may be abl...

•Many readers will be aware of Frances Broadway's postal auction of piano rolls, 'Post Bid Enterprise', in the U.K. This month's auction, closing on 25th July, rather unusually includes quite a few Tri-phonola and Welte Green rolls. All are being sold individually. Details may be had from Frances at...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Nice to be back on line with you after several years of being disconnected. I have moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, and am having a very hard time finding a player piano tech in this locality, to help reassemble the linkage so I can enjoy my ...

•In April I put a note in the MMD for help in finishing getting my player piano back together. I have run into a problem reconnecting the wires under the keyboard that control tempo, play and reroll on a Standard action. I thought I had someone lined up to help but never received any more informatio...

•A contact in the UK wants me to cut him a copy of "Greenwich Witch" by Zez Confrey, QRS 101022. It's proving very hard to locate! Is there anybody with a copy they'd loan to be scanned? Thanks, Julian Dyer [ Hear John Tuttle's performance of QRS 101022 at [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Zoexbg9...

•It's found! I've had an immediate response of a good quality roll scan; thanks MMD! Julian Dyer

•On this last Sunday I gave a demonstration, playing vintage Jewish piano rolls along with a PowerPoint presentation about them. I played the reissued QRS version of "Die Greene Kosine" and a bit of "My Little Cousin". Sometimes the coincidences of life are truly mind boggling. Within an hour of me ...

•On October 22 the DeBence Antique Music World Museum posted on their Facebook page the information: "As you probably have heard, our Executive Director Prescott (Scotty) Greene passed away July 28, 2023." It is my understanding that Scotty had a medical emergency and entered a long-term care facili...

•I think that QRS experimented a few years back with using Mylar instead of paper for music rolls. Apparently there were difficulties, probably economic ones as well as such technical ones as Robbie mentioned, because its use was not continued. As Robbie said, the old green paper Wurlitzer used was ...