•About two years ago I experimented with using a vinyl cutter to produce rolls for my Wurlitzer 105. I found a program to convert the *.prt file from Midiboek to a DXF file, and then I converted the DXF to a vector in my CAD program. It does work; I could produce printed out rolls using the pen inse...

•[ Wallace Venable wrote in 090827 MMDigest: > I'm looking at a project based on the "Raffin 31" scale. The > Midiboek Gamma files I have found appear to be set up so that, > as seen by the organ grinder, the rolls move from left to right > but the bass notes are located toward the _front_ side of t...

•Hi Group, I would like to have some Christmas music for my 22-key Perlee organ. I think that there are readers of MMD that could arrange a tune template using Midiboek but I need blank book stock. Does anyone have any that they would be willing to sell? I have given up trying to get books from G. P...

•After tuning and making some minor restoration on the recently acquired Triola zither copy, I am interested in collecting the available old or new punched music rolls for the instrument. Also, if someone has experience with Midiboek or Noteur programs, in this case to make new Triola arrangements, ...

•Hello, I am working on using an "X Carve" CNC to make music rolls, using MIDIBoek to draw the pages, then put them into EASEL, the CNC program, then allow the machine to carve out the pages. It's multiple steps, but we will see how it works. Advantages: Arduino-based, works on any PC or laptop. MID...

•There has been some discussion lately on the subject of punching your own rolls or books for organs. This is something I am planning to do in the near future, however I am not sure how to do the actual punching of the holes. I have used the "Midiboek" program to create templates for the book music...

•G'day MMDers all, I have built a kit organ and am now hearing the music which can be produced from a kit-built busker organ. I refer to the Castlewood organ. Its designer and maker, Tom Newsome, lives in Western Australia. His Castlewood Organ is based on the John Smith busker organ, with several m...

•I am a mechanical music enthusiast from Montreal, Canada. My English may sound bookish, since I am French speaking. This site is a gold mine: congratulations to Robbie and collaborators! I arrange and manually punch music rolls for organettes (Celestina 20, Melodia 14), and also for Sankyo 20-notes...

•Hi to all! Hans Kuykens asked if there was any interest in a template printing program for Windows. I'm quite sure there is, but I'd just like to point out that there already is such a program available for free, and it's called Midiboek: see http://huizen.daxis.nl/~Ppaardekam/ I've been using it f...

•Dear MMDers, and esp. Jim Divoky, Thank you again for your help! Indeed, the software packages to convert raster data to vector data is not that expensive, and it's a one-time investment. But the software I need is a kind of printer driver that will convert the data from the Midiboek program to dat...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Dear readers of MMD, on my web site I recently published a new program, called Noteur, that is mainly intended for people who make and arrange rolls and carton books for mechanical musical instruments. Like the program Midiboek that I wrote sever...

•Hi MMD, John Phillips wrote: > I'm interested in 88-note piano rolls with "snakebite" accenting > ... But I can't seem to find a gamma for this at Piet's web site. Well John, I couldn't find this gamma either, so I decided to write the *.gam file myself. At first the file didn't work (I only tried ...

•Hello to all. The music roll perforator is finished now. I was able to increase the performance by installing a 4-threads-per-inch Acme lead-screw and nut. Good enough for now. I have just updated the web page with new pictures and video: http://members.cox.net/wmbusker/Busker.shtml There you will ...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello all, Many people are using now "Noteur" to edit their organ MIDIs. Still there are people that cannot use it because they work with the 'raw files' in the same layout as the instrument they are working for. For years they are used to see...

•The April 2008 issue of the COAA's "Carousel Organ" magazine arrived yesterday. From my perspective, this is the most useful one yet. * Dave Wasson wrote part 1 of a two-part article on making wood band- organ pipes. Lots of good photos, and step-by-step procedural explana- tions. * I wrote about m...

•I also published an article in the COAA Journal, around 2004 or '05, about hand-punching rolls for crank organs. I use my own program, which runs only under Linux, and an old-fashioned dot-matrix printer that can take continuous fanfold paper. I then cut out the holes using a hollow center punch pl...

•I've been working with Carl Frei scale 20-note music rolls. In both cases, as seen by the organ grinder, the rolls move from left to right and the bass notes are located on the back (grinder's) side of the organ. I have Gamma files for use with Midiboek, everything fits together, and I've produced ...

•[ Ref. 090827 MMDigest, Raffin 31er Scale vs. Carl Frei 20er Scale Hello Wallace and MMD! Having done some 31-note music, I strongly recommend using a software called Noteur which is obtainable as freeware from the same source as Midiboek. (Probatum est!) Cheers, Christofer Nöring [ See http://www...

•Nigel Perry said in the 100122 MMD: "There doesn't seem to have been any correspondence concerning this subject since June 2007. I am wondering if anyone knows of any advances that have been made in the intervening time." For a couple of years I've been successfully using PhotoScore MIDI Lite 5 (se...

•I have made some additions and revisions to the mechanical music section of my personal web site, http://www.wallace-venable.name/mechanical-music/ I began punching my own paper rolls for my John Smith Senior 20 organ a couple of years ago. I am using a home-built traditionally styled one-hole foot...