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•I have searched the archives and there were two entries about punches by Doug Adam. His post was answered the next day but the supplier is overseas. I was wondering if there is a USA supplier of leather punches the size of pouches. I know Player Piano Co. has the punches, but my experience has been...

•If you are in the market for punches check out McMaster-Carr Internet catalog. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view the catalog http://www.mcmaster.com/webcat/catalog.html Also I found that the Player Piano Co. arch punches are cheaper than any other place I have found, accordin...

•I have several arch and tube punches that are dull. Can anyone suggest a way of sharpening them? No one in central California seems to be able to do it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, S. K. Goodman

•Why couldn't these be sent back to the manufacturer for sharpening? Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)

•Various people have expostulated at length about how to sharpen arch punches. They have all missed the boat on the surest way to have a factory-sharp edge on their cutting tools. Simply go to your local hardware store and buy only the finest of offshore-produced punches, made of nothing but the fin...

•On Thu, 28 May 1998 08:27:59 -0400 Jon Page muses: > Why couldn't these be sent back to the manufacturer for sharpening? To which "Arp" Replies: Probably because we're all too cheap! Plus, there's this sort of ever-pervading "DIY" attitude about mechanically-tinkering people. Kind of a disease that...

•I want to thank all the MMDer's who offered their suggestions for sharpening the punches. Jon Page wrote: > Why couldn't these be sent back to the manufacturer for sharpening? I contacted the manufacturer, Osborne (not cheap punches), and they suggested using a half-round file. I have both cheap th...

•I have found the best solution for having dull Arch Punches sharpened: Joyce Brite. I sent her several of my terribly dull punches and she sharpened them. She did a fantastic job - they are incredibly sharp now!! So sharp, that I didn't realize how dull they really were. I recommend that anyone who...

•Hi Manda, In my collection I have a similar movement. Please look at the attached photo. My movement has a 20-note comb, a crank and so on. Is yours of the same type? I think it's from Japan -- maybe from Sankyo, but I am not sure. A mail order company in Germany (SELVA) is selling a movement for 6...

•> What amazes me is that very few people in this forum had > ever heard of this little gadget ("Pling-Plong") I've heard of it, but I know very little about it since it is not available in the US, as far as I know. Does anyone know of a source that can take US $$$ and ship this stuff to a US addres...

•I have a similar, but not identical, music box, called the "Melodean" (sic). It's Japanese, and I bought it in the late 1960s as a Christmas gift for my father. I paid $20, if I recall right, from a San Francisco mail-order shop called Haverhills. It came with some pre-punched tunes and about three...

•Hi All! As a professional organ and music maker, Le Ludion has at the moment a tune list of more than one thousand tunes. A machine much like Tim Trager is looking for has been in use at our company in France since 1992. You can see it on our site: http://www.leludion.com/ Angelo Rulli and Cecil Gr...

•I don't know where Mr. Charial got his punching machine, but our MMD-member Robert Hopp did some commercials in here for his "Amadeus" already; check the MMD Archives. (Although no one knows if that guy still exists; he seems to be on a run. hehe ;-) I could name several other people who use MIDI-p...

•A question occurred to me lately: How were paper rolls copied at the beginning of this century? Essentially I can envision two ways: (1) There is a "master" of some different material (like in reproducing vinyl LP recordings; there the master is of steel), and the reproducing machine interprets the...

•Dear MMD-friends, Who knows something about an organette named "Clariophone"? It works with perforated zinc-strips. Thanks for your help! Best regards from Mirecourt in France Francoise Dussour

•Jay Caughron asked about punched music for the Johan de Vries organ. I built the organ a couple of years ago, using his original "Kistdraaiorgel" book in Dutch, and I purchased some music from Johnny Verbeeck in Belgium. He is familiar with the de Vries 36-note scale. His e-mail address is Howard W...

•List, the Melvin Wright web site is one place for book and roll music: http://www.melright.com/music/ Russ Doering Sunnyvale, California

•Good morning MMDers -- There are two photos of the MIDster puncher designed by Bob Essex in action at the recent AMOS rally at Wagga in Australia. AMOS Member Rueben Grieger built the machine and it punched away much to everyone's fascination. See http://homepage.mac.com/ozorgans/PhotoAlbum6.html T...

•Schaff's catalog lists "Organ Punchings," and I had them send me samples. I called Schaff about them, but they had no clue. The items are from American Piano Supply Co., #33350 or #33850, 3/8" diameter x .050, with a center hole. Packet of 100. Does anyone know what these are for? Duaine Hechler ...