•This nice Automatic A-Roll of circa 1928 is being recut but it doesn't have a name or a number -- the leader was torn from it long ago. John Motto-Ros, Matt Jaro and myself would like to know the long missing identity of this roll so that we may at long last fill in the missing piece of this musica...

•Dear MMD-friends, I have to travel to Japan from 2.2.98 to 2.10.98. Can anybody give me some addresses where I can visit museums or collections of mechanical music instruments over there? Please send your answers directly to me or if possible also by the MMD. Thank you in advance for your answer. T...

•Bonjour Phil Benson, You wrote in the 98.01.07 Digest: "If any MMDers have details of a collection or museum that could be added to the "Fair Organ Preservation Society" list, ..." On the web site Musica Mecanica, besides many other things (listing of associations, coming events, images of instrume...

•Whoops! I made two mistakes in my band organ rally posting of 1/12/98. First of all, the rally is in Findlay, Ohio, which should "finally" put that to rest. Second, I don't have an operable scanner, so all rally information needs to go out by U.S. mail. All respondents should include a mailing addr...

•Was it just me, or did others think Ed Gloeggler's description (MMD 98.02.15) had reversed the terms theme and accompaniment in the first bit of his description? A pedal Duo-Art uses the original pedalled suction level for theme, and throttles it down for the (quieter) accompaniment. If Ed's machin...

•This is Ricky Diggs with Custom Woodworking. Thank you for the great introduction into MMD on 98-2-26. Since then I have spoken to many MMD members requesting that I replicate galleries for their various machines, which I am looking forward to doing. (I have reproduced many galleries in the past. )...

•Hi Andrew, Your message in the 22 March 98 MMD: > I have a old Thorens music piece, from a 1939 child's pedal car. It > is very pitted, two teeth are missing and the spring and spring case > are both broken too. The cylinder is in very good shape! What I'm > looking for is everything but the cylind...

•Hello Ingmar, Adrian and others. Ingmar wrote in the MMD (98.08.05): > Isn't there anyone who would like to create a medium, that has about > 120 notes as input by MIDI (well, the whole MIDI scale, chromatic, with > Input by standard MIDI-cable) and outputs 120 cables of command-wind? We make produ...

•Hi MMDers. Julian Dyer's posting in yesterday's MMD (09.01.98) reminded me of my introduction to player pianos. About 25 years ago, I spotted a "For Sale - Pianola" ad in the local newspaper, with an address only a few streets away from our home. Persuading my wife that purchasing this would be a g...

•I used McAfee Uninstaller to successfully get rid of RealPlayer and all references to it in Windows 98. I also use this program regularly to clean up junk files, and it appears to work very well. So far, it has never deleted any critical files and I've had it for some time. I don't think the McAfee...

•Hello All. I've been using Cakewalk Pro 6.0 [in my Windows 98 SE] and I love it's simplicity. I write and edit music and piano rolls in the piano roll mode all the time. However, now I've upgraded to Windows XP and I was afraid of installing the Cakewalk program into XP, so I called Cakewalk to ask...

•Hi! Someone asked me about getting discs for a 2-disc Symphonion...but I can't find the e-mail letter! If you're out there, please contact me....I found some! Thanks, Nancy Nancy Fratti - Panchronia Antiquities PO BOX 210 - Whitehall, NY 12887-0210 USA 518-282-9770 or fax: 518-282-9800 E-mail: musi...

•From an Organbuilder's vantage-point! In Digest 980523 Jan Kijlstra writes an excellent treatise on organ pipe metal compositions: > The search for a correct definition of Hoyt metal did not, up to now, > come to a solution. A couple of contributors did suggest that Hoyt > metal is a two-ply metal...

•Hello! I haven't been writing some time now, but now I'm bit irritated by this posting about electronic fairground organs... Paul Allen wrote in Digest 960813: > I was interested to hear from Robbie that Andy LaTorre has built a > similar organ to mine. As requested here are a few more lines. > > M...

•Keith - I've just seen your enquiry which was forwarded to the Mechanical Music Digest [980616]. I was on vacation in Spain. I had an 1878 concert grand, originally sold in New York as it was not in the 1870s London sales book rescued by Rex Lawson when all their records were dumped in a skip about...

•Bruce Clark said: ["Buying Original Music Rolls", MMD 980303] > Not long ago, I responded to an advertisement for original Ampico > rolls. I purchased the entire lot. When they arrived home, I > discovered most were hardly playable. Time is beginning to take > its toll on original rolls, and the bu...

•[ Editor's note: [ [ This article was originally composed by Larry circa 980801 [ in response to the article on this subject by Ed Berlin in [ MMDigest 980731. The e-mail evaporated somehow in transmission [ to MMD; we apologize for the delay. [ [ Ed Berlin's opening statement was: [ [> Much of wha...

•[ In reply to "Calliope Blower Needed", 981018 MMDigest ] Mr. Boulet, I rebuilt one of these a number of years ago. They are a lot of fun to rebuild and to play. What you have here is probably a Tangley CA-43, the most popular and most common model. Wurlitzer made some as well but not in as great a...

•Hello all, I bought some of the grease from Nancy Fratti that Larry Greenfield mentioned in MMD 981020. When I ordered it Nancy explained to me that she switched some time ago to a Permatex synthetic lube with Teflon. I haven't re-greased my Regina's spring with it yet but I have used it in electri...

•Tim and Julian, Have you guys finished with the physical testing manual and "killer" Duo-Art test roll [981012 MMDigest]? I need two yesterday (ha ha). I hope this project has not been dropped. Don't let the possibility of criticism deterred you. Sometimes when you ask for input from the MMD it can...