Just a note about playing reproducing rolls on pumpers. In the past I have taped over the bottom two and top three holes on the tracker bar to play Ampico rolls, but this summer when I was in London I observed a technique that seems to work and you don't have to worry about adhesive from tape gummin...

> [ Please > [ keep us informed of programs and/or procedures for directly > [ generating and capturing audio samples without involving audio tape. This should be possible to do without any special hardware or software. Most soundcards have the possibility to record sound from the output of their mi...

When playing reproducing rolls on my Autopiano, I needed to tape off the expression hole positions on the tracker. I tried masking tape, but found that the adjacent notes ciphered a lot. Using a thinner, cellophane tape improved this, but the notes 1 or 2 away from the tape still ciphered often. Can...

John, yes, you are correct that I overlap repair tape and slice off the excess with a steel rule and X-Acto knife. I agree that care has to be taken not to overdo it. A shortcoming does emerge from this process in that the base board becomes progressively damaged from the knife edge cuts and needs t...

Re "Painting the Town ..." for the Wurlitzer 165 in Glen Echo Park: I can't wait to hear a cassette tape of that organ playing my song. If it is successful, I'd like to do more. Just think: no copyright nor licensing hassles to worry about, as I am both composer and publisher! Just one favor, please...

•In regard to "Pussycat Rag", also "Grandaddy Longlegs," if you can send me a cassette tape of the music, I will "try" to arrange it for you if the original cannot be found. I cannot read music (my computer can) and if you like the arrangement, I will have it perforated. I am always looking for musi...

•Andy Taylor wrote in Digest 970613: > ... if you can send me a cassette tape of the music, I will "try" > to arrange it for you if the original cannot be found. Andy, Feel like a challenge? I have a few old tunes recorded by Harry Thomas in the early 1920's, and I'd just *love* to hear one of them ...

•In MMD970902 Eugene Rogers asks about repairing torn music rolls and wonders to which side of the paper one applies the tape. It has long been my practice to put the mending tape on the side of the paper _away_ from the tracker bar. The reason I do this is that I have observed a few major disasters...

•In MMD 970908 Karl Ellison suggests covering the inner core of the left flange with cellophane tape. I have a number of rolls, mainly old QRS, which suffer both from fragile paper and loose left flange. I have used this technique successfully for some time. I find that only a very small clearance i...

•I just want to tell everyone that I recently received a copy of the music cassette tape produced by George Bogatko, "Nickelodeon Toe Tappers". It is a recording featuring realizations of automatic piano and orchestrion music as if it were being played on actual instruments. To say it is amazing is ...

•Yes, it *is* the Horowitz Marr & Colton that is on the Siou tape that was mentioned here a few days ago. I had forgotten whose organ it was, until the mention of Horowitz. The information that was also provided about its location and history was new to me, and welcome. The sound is much fuller and ...

•--- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD --- We've had a request to create a tape of calliope music here at Muzak, but I'm having trouble finding many recordings. Does anyone have a list of available releases of calliope music? Thanks much! Gregg Porter

•Matthew Caulfield inquires about Part 1 of the Ray Siou Tour. I have that tape in my possession somewhere, unlabeled, underneath my stack of Clara Bow talkies. In the videotape Ray, demonstrates his Wurlitzer PianOrchestras, Arburo dance organ, Seeburg E Special, Seeburg A, and build-up orchestrion...

•Karl Ellison asked about roll repair. There are several techniques for handling bits of tape that I either developed by myself or learned from friends. Here are a few. Build a roll-repair table before starting. Make it out of an old spoolbox sawn in half and mounted upon a board, so you have two or...

•Reply to Karl Ellison's request on roll repair First I want to thank Karl for the forthcoming order on the repair tape. Second I will furnish a free copy of my roll repair guide with the order. This should answer most of your questions in regard to roll repairs. Third, I have already committed to g...

•Hi All, I read the Teletype discussion and I wanted to suggest using some packing tape to splice the tape reader tape. I also wanted to say old IBM serial cards have a current loop on them so you could run a Teletype off an XT or AT class machine. I just went and checked my junk box only to find I ...

•Marc Kaufman wrote: > ... This was marketed to the vision-impaired folks so they could > tape lectures at normal speed, then play them back at higher speed > without changing the voice pitch. ... See, for example: > http://sightconnection.site.yahoo.net/sightconnection/plu-331.html The above site i...

•> I think there was a system which recorded a track, reversed the > tape in a hurry and then recorded another one parallel to it and > so on. I cannot remember who made it, possibly Loewe-Opta. I worked on the design of one such that used a tape cartridge similar to the 3M DC-300 (a little bigger t...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- I am searching for a source of tape cassettes to be used in a Pianocorder that is electrically connected and attached to our piano. These tapes play the piano. Since we recently purchased this piano with the mechanical "player," I have been un...

•I, too, prefer the use of archival acid-free tape over 3M(TM) Magic Tape. Archival tape was originally intended for rare, irreplaceable documents. Don't paper music rolls fall into the same category? Besides the properties mentioned by Mark Reinhart, archival tape is lighter weight than 3M Magic Ta...