•Regarding the posting by Jim Welty about Paul Eakins and the sale of the items in his St. Louis museum. It occupied the ground floor of a large building owned by the makers of Tums ("Tums for your tummy!"). Tums needed the space, so Paul and Laura had to sell out or otherwise remove the contents th...

•Hello MMD Readers, We just launched this illustrated web page, at the end of the year: http://www.wiscasset.net/artcraft/monmouth.htm There are ten JPEG pictures on this URL, which focuses on the town of Monmouth, Maine. We were invited to contribute material for a museum display in that town. Lynn...

•In "Enigmatic Pneumatics On Some Ampico A Actions", MMD 02.07.09, D.L. Bullock writes: > I have two Ampicos with a 1" x 1" pneumatic mounted on the top side > of the so-called spring pneumatic attached to the main expression > valve. I need to know what they connect to since the tubing > was toast ...

•Adam Ramet said in 030514 MMDigest: > The player mechanism is a Hupfeld-built one. Hupfeld built > instruments with 73-note scale and 65/73-note players turn up > from time to time. Be alert to the fact that "Claviola" was a Hupfeld trading-round name, just as "Aeriola" was for flagrantly Aeolian-m...

•John Tuttle's "850+ Player Piano Makes & Makers" list of piano brands and their player actions is wonderful, a real achievement (as is his whole web site). However, there is one little problem for the global era - it's all American! Luckily, the MMD is just the right forum to fill in this slight om...

•Hello MMD. I was in our local Post Office the other day, mailing off a piano roll, when the postmistress said "Ooooh, have you got a pianola? We've got one at home but it hasn't worked since we moved into our new house." Because she looked at me very appealingly, I said I'd have a quick look to see...

•I enjoyed the interchange involving Art Reblitz (a fine friend of mine since he was a teenager in the 1960s) and Janna Norby of the Bovey Collection in Montana [080124 MMDigest]. I've never been to the latter place, but I have heard many nice things about it. In the 1960s when Oswald ("Ozzie") Wurd...

•Bennett Leedy phoned me to advise of several pianos that are available in Michigan. (Bennett doesn't get on-line much anymore.) First is a Weber style WR Duo-Art. This piano was restored over forty years ago and will need work. The mahogany case was never refinished. It is located north of Grand Ra...

Now that the work of getting this mailing list started is settling down, I thought I'd write a short message about what I'm doing and what my interests are. The "day job" is doing customer service (and some software development) for a company that manufactures large Unix boxes. We sell these as comp...

Hello, I seem to be getting so much mail, that my time is used up before I read it all. I am on a very small fidonet, and it has been down more often than I care to say. For the time being, is it possible to send me mail related to reproducing pianos only? Also, I'd like to place an advertisement fo...

The AMICA Convention got underway this morning with a Monkey Organ Rally at Union Station. Awesome setting, flawless weather, mid-70's, gentle breeze, clear skies, lots of people. Some 15 organs were present, most fairly new (mid-80's) and 1 vintage. All played their little hearts out, to a huge app...

Part of the Welte Philharmonic reproducing pipe organ at Broomhill, or "Sir David Salomon's House", at Speldhurst near Tunbridge Wells, spoke out again for the first time in nearly 60 years recently. The organ was heavily rebuilt from a "No 10 Orchestrion" as a combined Orchestrion and Pipe Organ wi...

By the way -- before anyone rushes out to put beveled glass in their Nelson-Wiggen as reported in the MMD a couple of days ago -- Nelson-Wiggen was a late entry into the coin-operated piano business. Beveled glass was found in early-made coin-operated pianos and was most likely discontinued around 1...

•This email was prompted by a question in one of last week's Digests concerning early types of music rolls, and by private correspondence with a friend who recently located a very early Clark Apollo player roll catalog from 1907. The former questioned why various formats less than 88n were used, and...

•More private E-Mail questions answered, since there are several members\ readers that do not yet have a copy of the Bowers book. There were many different nickelodeons made and they can be found in for sale ads in the MBSI, AMICA, and Antique Trader publications. You can also find them at auctions...

•A "Nickels Worth" of Information -- There were many different brands of coin operated player pianos made in America and Europe at one time. The different manufacturers made several different models of their pianos. The first of these manufacturers were centered on the East Coast of America where th...

•Hi Folks, I guess I missed the "thread" that started the MMD Awards and thus do not know the "ground rules" for nomination. Even without knowing the rules, I can heartily endorse MMD Award consideration for Stephen Kent Goodman and enter a new nominee, Ronald Schmuck, both frequent contributors to ...

•Hello, HeRe'S dA iNfO ! :) [ Re Digest 971231 ] > Does anyone have an idea of value for this toy instrument? I am > not selling it. It's a charm. And it's in perfect condition, just > needs tuning. So, here we go: For the instrument is in perfect condition, you can take as value something in-betwee...

•Peter, I think I wrote the ad my friend Doug Henderson refers to, about "bothering with rolls." I share all of the emotions you evoke in your article, having worked with music rolls for 32 years. I have mixed emotions about them, however, because, as much as I love music rolls, I love the music the...

•Copyright 1998 by Arthur A. Reblitz. All rights reserved for future publication by the author. The first commercially-produced Seeburg jukebox was called the "Autophone," introduced in May 1928, at the same time as the new "Greyhound" piano with "whippet race" mechanism. In July 1928 they changed t...