•Will, You did a great job describing the minimum volumes! As all the hullabaloo about music lovers and such, the real answer in self-playing pianos is playing softly!! Joe Tushinsky [owner of Marantz Pianocorder] used to say, "The artist shouldn't interfere with the conversation," or something like...

•Hi All, Bruce Clark asked about a solenoid system that would play Ampico rolls from disc. Robbie Rhodes comments: >[ "The first modern solenoid player system to reach significant >[ production was the Marantz Pianocorder; that was almost 20 years >[ ago, and the technology has slowly but surely imp...

•"Planned obsolescence" is fightin' words to engineers! Joe Tushinsky would be angered to hear that said about his pet project, the Marantz Pianocorder, and you shouldn't say that in the company of Yamaha folks, either. The Pianocorder is not obsolete, but it suffers from lack of product support and...

•My installation of electronic systems goes back to 1978, and includes all of them. I have installed Pianocorder since the first "school" they gave for the installation of those units. I have installed Pianomation from the very first few systems they sold. I agree that the keys should be bushed, but...

•Howdy MMD Buddies, I'm an new member interested in Dynavoice players and my background is handyman/tinkerer, jack-of-some-trades, master of none. My next project is putting together a Pianocorder/MC-2 MIDI system ala Will Dahlgren, Mark Fontana and Bob Baker. Maybe around 2020 I will upgrade to a P...

•Hello everyone. With the thousands of MIDI sites available on the Internet, it is a bit overwhelming. I had been looking for sites with MIDI files to download into my system, a Pianocorder player piano mounted on a Steinway grand (within a Dynavoice chassis, a fantastic invention designed by Tom Le...

•Phil Dayson mentioned the mounting of Pianomation solenoids on his harpsichord. I have worked with electronic players since 1978 and there are two items of which you may not be aware. (1) The metal rail that the solenoids mount on in Pianocorder, PianoDisc and Pianomation players serves two valuabl...

•When is a neutral not a neutral? Hi Robbie, By the way, are you from England or Australia? I ask because of an earlier reference to the power input of the Pianocorder as "mains" which sounded an unusual description, i.e., not in common usage in that context. [ I'm a California native. I like to say...

•I know, without doubt, that some of you guys will know exactly what I need for the following. I'm trying to accomplish setting a minimum off time between like notes so that the Pianocorder solenoids have enough time to retract between repeating notes. History: I have Powertracks MIDI editing softwa...

•To try to answer the query of which is better musically, pneumatics or solenoids. I have restored pneumatic players and reproducers for over thirty years. I have installed Pianocorder since their first installation class. Since 1978 I have installed Pianocorder, PianoDisc, Pianomation. Several hund...

•Permit me to add some more data to Mr. Nigel Perry's request for information about automating a 6l-key harmonium he saved from the scrap-heap. About three years ago, I added a set of 6l Pianocorder System key solenoids to depress the keys of a Bridgeport Cottage organ. The solenoids were positioned...

•I fine it unfortunate Don Winter has not found the instrument that would satisfy his needs [021113 MMDigest]. I have been in the solenoid player industry since the Pianocorder first appeared. The family business was a retail store and tuning and service. I have witnessed many American piano makers ...

•The utility of solenoid player systems My experience with solenoid retrofit player systems is at great variance with that of Don Winter. For the past 24 years that I've been involved with Pianocorder Systems, I've found them incredibly reliable and versatile, too. In almost a quarter of a century, ...

•Hi Group, Maybe if Schafer Bros. Piano Movers finds the lost piano bench they will find inside the 50 Pianocorder tapes of mine that they lost while damaging -- uh, moving -- my Pianocorder. There may be some solenoid wires and cups there also. Jack M. Conway, Los Angeles, California, USA ...

•Hi Folks, We recently purchased a magnificent Louis XV 6'2" Welte grand (with recently rebuilt Welte Licensee player installed) and a Marantz reproducing Vorsetzer (music cartridges) push-up Pianocorder. We received several hours of brand new cartridge expressive music and a big box of rolls, but t...

•John Phillips described the playing notes of his 65-note Aeolian push-up player in 031019 MMDigest. For completeness now we need the bass/treble split point of the hammer lift rail or action stack in the expression pianos by various makers. I recall that Pianocorder could adjust to three different ...

•I have lost contact for several years with some player piano friends. Does anyone know the whereabouts of Doyle Cassel and Charlie Johnson. I rebuilt two of their grand actions back in the 1980s and installed a Pianocorder for them on a Kawai and ended up buying their art case Welte. I last knew th...

•Hi, For the last six months I have been manually entering lyrics into MIDI files from piano scans of piano rolls, for use on VanBasco Karaoke player and the Pianocorder Superscan. I'm looking for the lyrics for a particularly excellent roll arrangement, Imperial roll No. 08138, "Please". I have the...

•I am sorry to report that Carl Meyer is no longer with us. He passed away suddenly on February 14, 2006. I first became acquainted with Carl Meyer by phone in 2000 during my search for information about Pianocorders. He was very friendly and helpful. I finally met Carl at his home in Santa Clara a ...

•I knew Carl Meyer for only a couple of years but in that time we became good friends, he sharing his knowledge of pianos and Pianocorder systems with me and I helping him with his computer(s) and their frustrations. I spent many hours in his garage/shop just chatting on every topic under the sun. H...