•Dear Friends, Although I haven't been able to see all of the thread on Bear Songs I thought I might pass on what variation is traveling around the schools in Western New York. It is : 99 Bottles of Beer on the wall 99 Bottles of Beer Take one down, pass it around 98 Bottles of Beer on the wall... B...

•Hi Jody & Robbie, I don't mind paying another fifteen dollars for the Digest, but I do wonder if this will obligate you to provide the Digest on a regular uninterrupted basis for the remainder of one year. Will you be making this sort of obligation for a paid subscription? The rational for my quest...

•Robert Hopp wrote: > You will find there our new "Quercus Game 98" where everybody > can play in answering (on-line form) to the question : > what does "Musette" mean? This is what I know about it: Musette is one of the French words for bagpipe. The other term is cornemuse. The main difference lies...

•[ John and Larry Broadmoore exchanged letters about the PowerRoll. At 09:43 7/19/98 -0700, Larry Broadmoore wrote: Dear John, Sorry, I didn't mean to insult you. One misleading tendency is to group PowerRoll with solenoid player systems which push piano keys with solenoid plungers, which has the ef...

•Hi all. In yesterday's MMD (98.08.10), Frank Himpsl mentioned that he had some sketchy information on the numbers that are rubber-stamped at the ends or under the leaders of many piano rolls. If they could be decoded, these numbers probably would tell us on what date a roll was made. Recently I cat...

•[ Re "Mortier Organ Plays Wurlitzer 165 Music Rolls", MMD 981118 ] I'm late with this, but as I mentioned, we are homeless now and I haven't accessed MMD or other email for the past week. In MMD for 98-11-18 Gordy Forcier wrote, about the register setup of the Wurlitzer 165 system: > According to t...

•Paris, 26/11/98 Franco Severi, an Italian collector and organizer of various manifestations of mechanical music in Italy (a good festival at Longiano, last September), has just written to me that he has founded a collector's association in Italy. He asked me to tell the MMD : > IT WAS BORN! > It wa...

•Hi All, Sometimes I just don't have enough willpower not make a post. I started to just email John Tuttle but found that I typed so much I thought I would just post it. I was amused in John's results when he mentioned the sealers that worked well also made the pouch stiffer. The more you test, the ...

•Response to Lelland Fletcher looking for Reginaphone parts: You don't mention if you have a 15" or a 12" Reginaphone, but, ... I have the horn/bracket/tone arm combination that came from a Columbia phonograph, which is the type used on Reginaphones. While the bracket on mine is from a back-mount ph...

•Just a few quick comments on the new piano tuning and repair mentioned in MM Digest 980201. There have been lots of books like this before. I haven't read this one, but I don't know how a person that reads one book could do a very good job with tuning, not to mention regulation. Many times I have g...

•Phil Jamison has a great question in the MMD 980525. I have found over years of tuning fair organs, etc., that the builders often "built-up" sound by adding one pipe in a mixture which was tuned a forth (or fifth) higher than the note being played. As an example, a 47-key fair organ by the famous f...

•In reply to Dan Wilson's inquiry in MMD 980605 and subsequent discussions of this topic, I would like to describe what the Disklavier system does to allow synchronization of external instruments with the Disklavier. The source of the musical commands for notes to play (MIDI IN) comes into the Diskl...

•This is an update of an earlier posting in MMDigest 980702 about the organization of a Southwestern Pennsylvania chapter of AMICA. Saturday, Aug. 29 -- tour of West Overton Historic Village; tour with performance of Orchestrion at Clayton (home of Henry Clay Frick in Pittsburgh) and lunch; return t...

•Dick, you wrote in MMDigest 981026: > I have an Ampico B and I got to wondering if PowerRoll had a way of > being told whether it is playing the A and B Ampico rolls coded on > the CDs on an Ampico A or an Ampico B? The reason I was wondering > about this is because the Ampico B intensities react q...

•Robbie, you wrote [in a comment in MMD 981023]: [ No computer programs exist yet which can convert a MIDI file [ with MIDI "velocity" (such as recorded by a Disklavier) into [ a music roll for a pneumatic reproducing piano. All the codes [ for the pneumatic expression mechanism must be entered manu...

•John A. Tuttle wrote in MMDigest 981107: > When listening to high quality music you must first have a high > quality playback system. Something in the $2000 region is adequate. > Next you must remove ALL tone coloring. The frequency response of the > amplifier must be FLAT. No bass boost, no treble...

•This is reference to Jason Hahn's inquiry about obtaining a vertical steam boiler [MMD 981117]. It would be a good idea to check local regulations regarding the inspection of boilers. In Michigan where I am, it's nearly impossible to get a privately owned steam engine or steam boiler inspected and ...

•Dear MMDers: You may recall my sad tale in 981221 MMDigest when I related how a Steck Duo-Art being restored by a piano tech was "dropped" during delivery, such that an assistant's "foot was broken", that the piano was "irreparably damaged", including "pneumatics everywhere" and a "broken plate (ha...

•[ Both Ken Vinen and Jerry Bacon wrote that they have Universal [ roll 98495 "Breezy Broadway Medley" and they provided the titles [ of the unknown tunes, but Alan Mueller reported different [ numbers in his 1915 catalog: 98492 (88-note), 101452 (65-note). [ This confused me! -- Robbie Hi Robbie, T...

•There is a great deal that I don't know about the scanning versus re-cutting of fragile rolls. But there is something in particular that I wonder about. I have a well-regulated foot-pumper player that is capable of some finesse in the playing of old rolls. Right now, I'm thinking about the way I ju...