•Thank you, Tom Lear, for the tribute to Carl Meyer. I too, knew Carl as he became my source for Pianocorder tapes before I converted to Mark Fontana's great system. I had not seen Carl in several years since converting, but last I did he seemed in great health, so this news was a surprise to me. Ca...

•I have restored players for more than thirty years. I won't say how many more... I have installed electronic player systems of all kinds since the first class Pianocorder had back in 1978. I have lost count at around 400 of the various Pianocorder, PianoDisc, Pianomation installations. I played the...

•I have read with some interest in the comments made concerning the disc playing pianos. I have watched the progression of these units from my days as an employee with Marantz Pianocorder until now as a retail dealer. There has been written (what I feel) some misinformation as to the current perform...

•[ Ref. Lee Rothrock in 110618 MMDigest -- Ron, You might contact Tom Lear. He has rebuilt a Dynavoice keytop player and converted it into a Pianocorder and it is quite impressive. A note on the Dynavoice -- when I was 16 (or so) I was working at Maher Music Company in Santa Monica and I saw them ne...

•For sale: * 25 original Welte Philharmonic rolls Style I + II, * 20 recut Welte Cottage rolls (never played), * 40+ original Hupfeld Triphonola rolls, * 30 Aeolian Grand (58-note) rolls, and * lots of Pianocorder tapes. If somebody is interested please send an email to Klaus.Peuler@t-online.de.geen...

•I found an old Z-tronic 75934 Piano Encoder circuit board while going through some old 'stuff'. Does anyone have any documentation for this board? I believe it was to interface to a Pianocorder system. Thanks. John Haskey

•Hi Group, A couple of comments on Tony Marsico's post on the removal of the Dou-Art system [140522 MMDigest]. As to Pianocorders, yes, I own a Pianocorder Vorsetzer that is playing and I have access to a former Marantz technician who has parts. I own a stock Model T Ford but another member of the M...

•Our store has been selling the digital players since they were introduced. I was an employee of Superscope Marantz when they introduced the Pianocorder tape-played piano kits. One great thing about our old Ampicos and Duo-Arts is that the 'software' is not out of date, so to speak. Try to buy a mus...

•[ Ref. Jim Miller in 210925 MMDigest ] Fascinating story, I visited the Superscope Marantz PianoCorder recording studio about 35 years ago and witnessed the Welte electro-pneumatic ten-roll changer and also the super-duper ultra high speed PianoCorder cassette tape duplicator. (Jazz pianist and mus...

Hello folks, just joined this list. My name is Will Dahlgren (WillWiz@aol.com). For the past 5 years I have worked entirely in the MIDI to player piano area. I have developed a MIDI interface for the old Pianocorder, the MC-1. I also designed something called the WIMP. It is a MIDI to "power" unit t...

Jody suggested that as a new member of the group (#104), I should introduce myself. First of all, thank you Jody for doing such a good job of such a big job. I am Roger Stern. My wife Anne & I are semiretired and operate a small investment business from our home office on the north shore of Blakely ...

Forwarded Message: • From: rsternjr@halcyon.com To: ALL Orig: MBNET Subj: Reproducing Pianos Area: 0-sic.makers.piano Date: 08/27/95 ============================================================================= •I am a Reproducing Piano hobbiest and also new to the net, so I apologize in advance if ...

We wish to sell the three pianos described below. Please enter the following descriptions in the Digest, edited as you think appropriate: Welte Mathushek 5'2''grand, mahogany case refinished, piano and playing mechanism fully restored, with bench and antique roll cabinet, and 58 original rolls. Pric...

Hello all, Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. My name is Steve Cole and I'm 48, married (20 years), and work as a computer consultant. I have, in past employment, serviced player pianos, done tuning and repair on various types of pianos & players. However, my local area just couldn't suppor...

Dear sir, Thank you very much for accepting me to put on the mailing list. I am a new comer to this group and I am excited ! I have always been interested in a 'Mechanical Music Instrument' and while I was staying in Dallas Texas back in 1978 for several years (I work for Texas Instruments in Japan ...

Dear Robbie, Thank you for accepting me on the mailing list. I just read through the past one month or so mails and found them very interesting indeed. There is a diverse people and it is amazing what everyone is doing ! One of the candidate project I have is to build a reader for the QRS rolls whic...

Now... I'm not sure If we're talking about the same set/brand of CD's, but I've had some luck with the "Gershwin plays Gershwin" and "Paderewski plays Paderewski" CD's put out by LaserLight Digital. Since these CD's only cost about $4 *new*, I wasn't expecting perfection... but was pleasantly supris...

Jody Kravitz wrote: > Martin's question, above, about "New Players" as a teaching aid struck > me. I can't help but wonder if a MIDI editing system, a keyboard, and > access to some digitized roll libraries might not be a better learning > tool for this student. I have to agree with Jody. Over the p...

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: ...

Robbie wrote: > Usually I have three separate data files open: piano rolls, > phonograph recordings, and a big sheet music file which is my > "master"source of correct titles and composers. This "master source" sounds invaluable! Where did you get it? Is it something we could put up on the MMD ftp s...