I realised I got the name of the thicker Filmoplast tape wrong the other day. It is Filmoplast P90 (NOT P50). The thin tape, which is the best for most roll-mending jobs, is Filmoplast P tape. The rolls are 19mm wide and 50 metres long. 19 mm is unnecessarily wide for most jobs so I cut it into thin...

Thanks for the info on the Peter Phillips Tape Converter for the Ampico, John. This table shows the frame rate of the various asynchronous systems: • recut, 63 steps/in @ T80: 100 frames per second Stahnke Converter: 100 frames per second Phillips Converter: 50 frames per second Pianocorder System: ...

•Hello All: I've made up a cassette tape containing music from my WWW site, and more. There is O-roll format music, band organ music, and player piano music by S.K. Goodman, Frank Himpsl, George Cobb, and myself. Frank's pieces are both O-roll arranged, and straight player-piano. Stephen Goodman's p...

•Darrell Clarke enquires about other methods of getting thin strips of tape from a roll of Filmoplast. I pull 3 or 4 cm of tape off the roll and the backing automatically separates, as Darrell says. I have a pair of long-bladed hairdresser's scissors and I hold them open and place the strip of tape ...

•There was recent talk of using the correct tape to repair damaged paper rolls. I have a number of classical Eighty-Eight Note and Ampico rolls that are in the process of self-destruction. They are in such bad condition, that I thought I would attempt to repair them. Checking back through the MMD ar...

•I read in a HiFi magazine that the German magnetic tape recorder had a rotating head, and that helped with the high frequencies. Then Ampex had it and eventually the Japanese used the idea for consumer VCR's. Hissily yours, Allan

•Foster Cooper wrote MMD: > Does anyone know of a tape, record, or CD played on any of the major > residence organs, preferably in roll mode, as I am desperate to hear > some of them? Have you checked with the Organ Historical Society? They have a very large listing of very unusual recordings, and t...

•I just listened to a 36-year-old tape of a lecture/demonstration (which I had attended) of the Welte Reproducing Piano System, given at the University of Southern California (USC) by its Professor of Piano, Dr. John Crown, assisted by my father, Richard Simonton. While still far from the definitive...

•Tom Lear wrote in 010105 MMD: > Problem: When playing tapes on the Pianocorder, the stabilization > light keeps coming on, no matter what position the adjusting wheel > is in. Out of curiosity, is the tape an old tape? Cassette tape, like any other magnetic media, suffers data loss over time. There...

•Does any of you know where I can get CDs or tape recordings of the following dance organs: Mortier, Decap, Hooghuys Thanks Ben Jackson Nottingham, UK http://www.mechanicalmusic.dot.nu/

•[ Peter Neilson wrote in 060112 MMDigest: > The article recommends magnetic tape as having a storage life of > 30 to 100 years. Who can assure, though, that the equipment to read > old magnetic tapes will be available? The 100-year-old rolls that > we have in our collections are generally still rea...

•Having read a few comments on the use of adhesive tape for attaching pneumatics I restrained myself from answering. At first I thought that it was a joke, but then it seems that he was serious. All I can say is that I'm glad that he didn't come near my instruments. It may work, but I have seen the ...

•A brave reader wrote in suggesting 3M Magic Mending Tape to repair music rolls. I now join him so he will not be lonely. I have repaired a number of fragile rolls with very narrow strips of this tape, and the rolls have performed perfectly for years since then. Anything can be done badly, and I hav...

•I bought a good quantity of archival paper tape to repair music rolls after I felt chastised by MMD readers about using Scotch Magic Mending Tape. I recently played a roll that I had carefully repaired in 1973 using the 3M (Magic Mending Tape) product and found it still perfect! We've all seen roll...

•To all: I wonder if any members collect tapes re performers/piano/ music in general? My question results from a fruitless search for a VCR of a 1969 documentary about the late Arthur Rubinstein, made in France and titled there "L'amour de la vie" (The Love of Life). It's not to be confused with a H...

•In response to Fritz Gellerman's request for tapes of hand-cranked organs, I have two such tapes which I sell at organ rallies. One is a nice recording of a 20-note Jaeger & Brommer street organ, with two extra stops, and the other is a recording of a 31-note Raffin. Both tapes are one hour long an...

•A big collection of various monkey organs on tapes is available from Wilfried Hoemmerich, Bonn, president of Club Deutscher Drehorgelfreunde (CDD). Try going over their web page to reach him: http://www.bubis.com/cdd/ Most of the music is also available as LP or CD. greetings by(e) InK - Ingmar Kra...

•Most modern UK video recorders will replay NTSC tapes (525 lines, 30 frames/second) in a way that most UK TVs (625 lines 25 frames/second) will accept. A few older TVs might give slightly reduced height pictures or need their field hold adjusted. Yes, you can have the videotape converted, but a low...

•Has anyone taken the time to convert Pianocorder tapes to CD's or floppies that will play on PianoDisc or Yamaha systems? Or is it a conflict of formats, etc.? Jim Moore [ It's a licensing problem. At his web page, "Pianocorder to MIDI [ Project" (http://dp70.dyndns.org/pc2mid/), Mark Fontana write...

•Hi Group, I have tapes out to eight listeners of my unidentified Wurlitzer APP Rolls. Several tunes have been identified by two listeners. So I'm back to ask for more help. Would you please check your "A" roll collection and see if you can complete the information missing from these rolls? Thanks, ...