•My Gasparini trumpet organ was missing one trumpet resonator, so I consulted the WWW and various music industry publications. Few brass instrument shops want to take on this type of work, it seems, but I finally found Kanstul Music near Anaheim, California (recommended by a shop in England via the ...

•We had to move into metal pipes. Our Tuba Mirabela is a very sweet pipe with a rich, brassy sound. The band organ needed a _brass_ sound. We have built a new trumpet pipe that produces the sound we desired. The wooden trumpet which we used in the prototype organ sounded just like the trumpets of th...

•Hello everybody, At first, excuse me for my English; I'm French from Normandy (remember June 1944!). I have built an organ with 32 wood pipes and electric blower; the chest and bellows [pneumatics] are traditional. I made a MIDI controller using an 8051 micro-controller, and an old PC in a nice woo...

•There used to exist a "Spanish Trumpeteer" that was invented and built by Fredrich and Theodore Kaufmann, maybe between 1837 and 1851. The business was begun by Theodore's grandfather Johann in 1752. The remains to this day are still in the Deuches Museum in Munich, Germany. I still have a postcard...

•Hello Patrice, I read with interest you posting on MMD about your MIDI controller. I have done some 8051 programming in the past and had a lot of fun with it. What you have done sounds pretty cool! I have a nickelodeon that I have recently restored. It is a 1928 H.C Bay. Actually it was originally ...

•I only bother replying now if I think others have missed something.. Well, although I did not go on the trip, (it is always during school term time) the M.B.S.G.B. (Musical Box Society of Great Britain) went on a trip to Germany recently and I have seen a video of a MIDI controlled self playing dou...

•Although I have been building small organs and making pipes as an amateur for many years, until now I have fought shy of making a trumpet rank. Now, with some guidance from Marc Elbasani's excellent description published via MMD, I have partially completed a 25-note rank of trumpets, spanning two o...

•Greetings to all ;-) I recently responded to a posting on the MMD to some person who wanted a similar type of instrument; unfortunately my time did not even warrant even a courtesy reply. Anyway, such an instrument is available for sale here in the UK if anyone is interested. It belongs to an elder...

•Following my recent posting on the MMD, informing all who subscribe, that this instrument is available for sale, I was surprised at the noticeable lack of enquiries [040831 MMDigest]. These instruments are completely out of my league of experience, or interest, but I would have thought at the very ...

•Perhaps someone can settle a bit of a controversy I've run across in building a set of reed trumpets for the Wurlitzer 105. Bob Stanoszek's plans provide two sets of shallot and tongue designs for the trumpets, one that appears to be measurements from an actual set of Wurlitzer pipes, and the other...

•Bob, Why not just buy original Wurlitzer shallots and reeds from Doyle Lane's stock in Middletown Springs, Vermont? You can email Doyle at Matthew Caulfield Irondequoit, New York

•Wurlitzer band organs have a section in the roll scale called Counter-Melody and it's usually for trumpets. What is the musical definition of counter-melody, and why do the [Wurlitzer band organs] usually play trumpets? Ed Hattrup [ At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countermelody : "In music, the [ c...

•Sections of pipes working independently from the main keyboard are found in many types of mechanical organs. In American band organs, derived from German (Gebr. Bruder) fairground organs, this section is almost always worked by trumpets only. In other organs, like the French Gaviolis, the Belgian d...

•Here are my thoughts on the subject, offered with the caveat that I am probably one of the least musical people alive today. Wurlitzer's smaller band organs didn't have many registers -- often none -- to turn on or off certain ranks of pipes. In the style 150 roll [and organ], rather than create a ...

•Robbie wrote in 060204 MMDigest: >[ The Dictionary of Musical Terms, 23rd Edition, 1923, says: >[ >[ contra (from Latin & Italian): Compounded with names of >[ instruments, it signifies an octave below, e.g., contrabasso, >[ a double-bass; contraviolino, a double-bass viol. >[ >[ The female contral...

•Matthew Caulfield has hit the nail on the head. The Wurlitzer trumpets simply (for the most part) duplicate the melody for emphasis, as required, and when used so make the worst use possible of the musical scale. They are not a counter-melody. Many years ago I purchased a number of Wurlitzer Style ...

•I am interested to read about counter-melody in band organs. I was unaware of the actual meaning of the musical term and rather thought it was a second melody playing against the first. The only tune of which I am aware, which offers a suggestion of a second theme, is found in the last refrain of t...

•In case anyone missed it, it's important to stress that the Wurlitzer 125 scale can use the trumpets as an independent countermelody, as a traditional European arranger or any good current arranger would do. I've heard that one reason the stock Wurlitzer 125 arrangements are so dull is that the org...

•We are looking for a few original Wurlitzer brass trumpet pipes for a restoration project. We will buy a larger grouping of original Wurlitzer pipes if necessary. Marty Roenigk Eureka Springs, Arkansas email: mroenigk@aol.com tel.: 1-479-981-3517

•I have been working with a brass instrument maker to make bent brass resonators. The measurements were taken from a Wurlitzer 148 organ. The 148 has 15 trumpets, two notes lower than the 13 notes of a 125. Photos of the two sets are at http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc278/billklinger/15noteset...