•The picture [link below] shows an Ibach-Welte grand piano, being owned by Konrad Adenauer 1924-1936. Unfortunately the Welte mechanism got lost during or after WW2. Adenauer also had a 1920 Roenisch Phonola grand piano, today to be seen in the Bruchsal museum. The analysis of the Ibach deliveries t...

•I enjoyed the link to the early office museum website that Bradley Matson posted [19.05.23 MMD]. But I think that they are off on the Auto-Typist production dates. They imply that 1951 was about the end. I believe that the one I'm trying to give away was made in 1964. Regards, Jerry Wagner ...

•Since my posting of link updates to Andrew Barrett's list, I've found two more items for inclusion. After doing a Google search of the MMD for any prior notice, I found that the following two had not yet appeared: 1923 Eubie Blake - A Fantasy on Swanee River. As with the previous listing, this also...

•Responding to the link to a performance of Welte-Mignon piano rolls 2168, 2169 and 2170) that was given in the 20.06.04 MMD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lpfY8w-CA Premier Sonate op.7 Pavel Khvostchinski Wow! What a wonderful piece of music! I could discover nothing about the composer/pianist ...

•From Robbie's link I found another link where I downloaded the music box software that hopefully will enable me to convert MIDI files to play on the Segway toy piano. It got me to thinking about a wonderful disc box emulation program that I used to have a decade or two ago I can't remember its name...

•Here is a YouTube link showing the process of recording and producing a beautifully crafted limited edition pianola roll which was recently commissioned as the first live-recorded roll in decades, produced by the North West Player Piano Association in the United Kingdom. https://youtu.be/lC11PD53cl...

•Thanks for the link to the National coin piano video in the clip from the film, "Roxie Hart", included in the Nov. 13 2025 MMDigest. The video indeed shows a National, but the audio is a recording of an 88-note player piano. The highest automatically-played note in a National is C#, and the piano i...

•Keith McClary gave us links to videos of the Clippard 'air' guitar in the July 17, 2012, MMDigest. I first heard about this last year, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the company that did this, Clippard Design, is headquartered in my home town, Cincinnati, Ohio. I was hoping to connect wi...

•Here are links (URLs) to copyright information at Wikipedia. Robbie Rhodes - MMDigest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act The Copyright Term Extension Act. This law, also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or as the Mickey Mouse Protection Ac...

•A Show Tune That Links Somewhat To Mechanical Music If anyone has seen or has heard of the Broadway musical "Barnum", with music composed by Cy Coleman, there's a particular number sung at the start of Act II called "Come Follow The Band" which describes the importance of marching bands in building...

•Below are links to photos of a "Tone Standard" (my term). I have no idea what this would be used for. Perhaps in some laboratory setting? Regards & stay safe, Richard Cardwell Palo Alto, California [ front [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/20/08/26/200826_001735_IMG_2773.jpg [ side [ https://w...

•I'm linking a music-only YouTube video of a six-tune musical box that's been a favorite of mine for years. Over those years I've been able to discover only the first tunes identity, which is "Hunter's Chorus" from "Der Freischütz" by C.M. von Weber. I'd be grateful for help with the titles of the r...

•You may want to update your link to the The Fair Organ Preservation Society who I notice have a new site at: http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~fops/ Regards Adam Ramet u9504734@bournemouth.ac.uk [ Editor's Note: [ [ I have updated the "New Links to Interesting Places" section [ of the MMD's Home Page. For ...

•Lyle Martin's RX-9 Project: Link Music for "88 Note" Players Recently Robbie asked: >[ Chuck, the tape recordings of the RX-9 project which I heard >[ sounded very much like a Link piano, but they seemed to have more >[ expression. Did Lyle Martin create a special expression/reproducer >[ system fo...

•MEXON - A newly Discovered Missing Link? This previously unknown organette found it's way into my hands recently having been bought by well-known dealer Brian Chesters from another dealer in Belgium. No previous history is known. It is quite exciting to find an instrument not mentioned in David Bow...

•I think that the correct link for "Automatic organs and their music" is http://w1.131.telia.com/~u13101111/organs/index.html or to bypass the front page, http://w1.131.telia.com/~u13101111/organs/sid1.html Todd Augsburger - Roller Organs http://www.bright.net/~allmax/index.htm [ http://w1.131.telia...

•Does anyone know how to link a laptop computer to an external MIDI transmitting device? We've got a roll reader and want to use a laptop to store the data. We have plans to use a serial port device but would like an increase in speed getting the data into the PC. (Robbie, help me out if the questio...

•I just came across this link to a very interesting report, "Pianos: Economic and competitive conditions affecting the US industry," published in May 1999 by the US International Trade Commission. It's huge -- 145 pages, coming to 600k in PDF format. http://www.usitc.gov/wais/reports/arc/w3196.htm I...

•At the end of 041029 MMDigest a link was given to an eBay site for a Wilcox-White reed organ. An attempt to contact the seller to determine what type of rolls this organ uses has resulted in no response. I have exhausted everything three different books have to say about this make of reed organ but...

•I goofed up on my link. I forgot it had to be capitalized : http://www.bandorganmusic.com/COMETOTHEFAIR.htm People had trouble linking to it. Sorry for the mistake. Chris Carlisle [ Sorry, Chris, 'twas I who changed the URL to all lower case letters, [ which is the standard format for MMDigest. The...