•Hi MMD readers! I'm pretty sure that the song Tom Baker is seeking is: "When I Was The Dandy and You Were The Belle." The authors are Harry Ruby, Lou Handman and Dave Dreyer. It was copyrighted and (probably) published in 1924 by Irving Berlin, Inc. I have it on Vocalstyle roll 13038 and what makes...

•Bob Conant's mention of ASCAP prompts me to mention the equivalent organization here in the UK: the Performing Rights Society (PRS). They issue a licence for an annual fee of around 20 GBP to any bona fide amateur organ grinder who plays in public. This covers royalties to any copyrighted music pla...

•[ Bob Conant wrote in 030610 MMDigest: ] > I hate to bring up this old subject but playing modern and current > music in public could cause some problems with copyrights. There has been such discussions already. While I'm not sure as of the last standings, the argument is such that the music played...

•Today I was going through a bunch of old rolls and found a type I had never seen before. It was a Connorized 88-note roll made in New York, copyrighted 1923. It is number 11009. What makes it different is it is in the "U-Play" series. There are printed directions on the roll, in addition to the wor...

•I believe that roll G-2500 was actually produced by Durrell Armstrong in the early 1970's and originally cut by someone other than Dave Miner. It is a copyrighted roll, owned by Durrell Armstrong, and should not be copied without his permission. The arrangements are by Art Reblitz and Dave Junchen...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hi, I just acquired a music roll, the full label is as follows; MelOdee Song Roll 5016 'Down By the River' Copyrighted 1923 J.H. Remick & Co. Creamer & Layton Played by Edythe Baker I've heard that Edythe Baker rolls are hard to come by? Maybe so...

•Hi Jim and MMD, I have a book by Craig Brougher called "The Orchestrion Builder's Manual and Pneumatics Handbook" and it has an entire chapter on building mandolin rails. There are some good drawings of various methods. The book is copyrighted in 1972 and the company name printed in the book is Aut...

•[ Scotty Greene wrote in 130225 MMDigest: > The DeBence Museum has a Muzelle nickelodeon [with a] stained > glass upper front #1025 dated 6/29/91 made by Dorothy Kemp which > was copyrighted in 1990. This would have been Music World, a now-defunct Las Vegas music retailer originally owned by Don an...

•Dear MMDers: As I have made my custom in recent years, I want to wish everyone Happy Public Domain Day 2023! This year works that were copyrighted in 1927 and properly renewed after their first term have entered into the public domain. In the music world, this includes such works as Gershwin's song...

•I would like to thank William Jacobson for his response about Hughie Woolford on Telektra brass rolls. He provides additional information about Hughie and his contributions to ragtime music and especially his interactions with Eubie Blake and "Ragging the Scale" claimed and copyrighted by Ed Claypo...

To Robbie, Claus, Matt and anyone else interested: The Cakewalk program has a MIDI-to-ASCII (and reverse) conversion routine, at least in the 4.0E DOS version. Not sure about later DOS or Windows versions but I doubt that they would have dropped the feature. I have attached herewith a short snippet ...

Howdie from Connecticut - While helping my parents record some of their old 33 1/3 albums to cassette tapes this weekend, I ran into an LP album that I forgot they had: "Nickel Music - The Sounds of the Nickelodeons at Paul Eakins' Gay Nineties Village". I remember them getting it in the late '60s, ...

Although I had known about this group for months from MBSI and AMICA publications, I only now got around to contacting Jody and learning what I have been missing. My maiden posting here is to list the music roll catalogs that I am aware of and to ask whether there are others that I don't know about...

For those of you posting your own compositions or arangements for the group and concerned with finding your posting being sampled, copied or pirated by people on the net it was intented for, you might find the following company of help: The Dice Company has just released their software "Argent" that...

Bob Conant described an interesting instrument built by a friend (Digest 960201), which creates music using hand-cranked "bowing wheels". It appears to me that "hurdy-gurdy" (and that's the proper spelling, too) is indeed the proper name! A recent book from the Black Forest relates the origins of th...

Forwarded Message: > From: gbogatko@intac.com To: ALL Orig: MBNET > Subj: Treemonisha Player Rolls Area: 1-ec.music.ragtime Date: 02/14/96 > ============================================================================ > There have recently been queries here and in the Automatic Music list about > th...

Steve Harder raised, among other questions, one concerning the legality of inputting a QRS roll into a MIDI database. Assuming that he has bought a copy of the QRS roll and is inputting the music only for his own use, I would think that he is on safe ground morally and legally: QRS has not been depr...

[ Editor's Note: The following file, was actually delivered to me via [ Robbie Rhodes, as AOL decided not to accept a file this long from Wayne [ today. [ [ The MIDI file of the recreated master roll of Ampico recording [ 68283, Paderewski's Minuet, Op. 14, No. 1, played by Sergei [ Rachmaninoff. T...

I think we can dismiss the likelihood of "Wm. Lawrence" being a pen-name for Scott Joplin. Joplin loaned his name as arranger to colleagues in hopes of increasing sales. It would make no sense for him to publish something under the cover of an unknown name. Matthew Caulfield took the first necessary...

RE: The Flip Side of _Painting_the_Town_ Hey guys- the response to the "Painting" MIDI file has been very encouraging. I was commissioned by the Regimental Band of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy to write- and this is no joke- _A-Parrott-Tefe_Rag_ for full concert band. (The band's director, Capt. ...