•I'm not sure if this link has ever been mentioned on the MMD. It talks about player sales during the "Golden Age" : http://www.williamgaddis.org/nonfiction/stopplayer.shtml Philip Jamison Pennsylvania [ Here's a sample: [ [ "A number of magazines devoted to the player -- many of them put out [ by t...

•I just received the following link from George Campbell. Check out the "Organ Festival Video"; it's nine minutes well spent. http://raffinorgangrind.textamerica.com/?r=2609897 George is a clever guy, I wish I could do this sort of thing. Hal O'Rourke

•I need help finding a link to a certain store that I saw online which still sold the metal seats as used on the later Amphion right-side-up valves. I have the upside-down valves and am going to replace the wooden rings with the later metal version. I do know that Bob Streicher makes and sells them...

•Thanks to Spencer Chase for the link to the post on the 1911 music roll standards. It did answer all but one of my questions on spool ends. Obviously all spool ends by all manufacturers were to adhere to these standards. My last question, which remains unanswered, concerns the slip fit of the left ...

•Thanks to Jeff Bridges for showing the link to the Google patent search. A few years ago I spent some time searching for mechanical music patents. At the time the patents were not indexed other than by number. Playing about with the Google search of the OCR keywords I found a whole bunch of interes...

•I followed Justin Senneff's YouTube link in the previous article and quickly found myself browsing. With a fast Internet link and good speakers connected to my PC, I found it a treat to browse YouTube for videos related to our hobby. The number of videos of interest has grown remarkably since the l...

•Piet Paardekam posted a message linking to a forum at http://86.83.97.165/orgelforum Almost everything is posted in Dutch, so you might think it isn't worth going through. Actually, there is a lot of good stuff here, and some of it turns out to be in English. I found a very interesting link to a "b...

•Timothy Tikker sent us this link about a cute new serinette: http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2008/09/08/diy-twitter-organ/ It's a build-it-yourself kit to make a tiny organ of 8 whistles played directly by a paper strip with punched holes. Another description is at http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/c...

•If you click on the link below you can see a very nice Western Electric Derby Racehorse piano for sale. http://www.edgaida.com/derby.html Please deal directly with the owner. I am listing this as a favor to her. Ed Gaida San Antonio, Texas, where the leaves are finally falling!

•If you click on the link below you can see a very nice Western Electric Derby Racehorse piano for sale. http://www.edgaida.com/derby.html Please deal directly with the owner. I am listing this as a favor to her. Ed Gaida San Antonio, Texas, where the leaves are finally falling!

•I was sorry to see the link to the "keepswinging" blog in this debate because it gives entirely incorrect details about the music! Clearly the writer saw "Ellis" as the composer and, not having a clue as to the facts, he wrongly allocated it to Seger Ellis. Such is the joy of the Internet that it'l...

•Robbie was kind enough to provide a link to the data sheet for the subject RTV102 in 110322 MMDigest. So, quoting the data sheet, we get, "These sealants are not for use in delicate electrical and electronic applications in which corrosion of copper, brass or other sensitive metals is undesirable."...

•Thanks to Brian Smith for the link to the video of De Arabier. It sounds great -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh_FMaBBEEM My question is this: Why does the conductor figure at the center beat his baton down on the off-beat? The beating seems to be controlled by the music sheet since it never cha...

•I've just been sent a link to an enchanting performance of a waltz composed by Sir Anthony "Hannibal Lecter" Hopkins. His composition, "And The Waltz Goes On," is performed by André Rieu and His Johann Strauss Orchestra, from the DVD "André Rieu - Under the Stars, Live in Maastricht 5." The score i...

•Many thanks to Bob Hodge for his link to the Music Trades Review article. Although it tells us nothing more about Lockwoods before 1908, it does indicate that H. J. Cullum was involved with the automatic piano trade -- if an Autotone is an automatic piano? (I've never heard of it, and it doesn't fe...

•MMDer John Preble sent this tip and link about a toy train that enables kids to create their own tunes. The concept was created by Brazilian designer Ricardo Seola in 2009. The toy train is pictured at time 1:42 in his concept video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhDT0nwjZQM Seola's idea is curr...

•Regarding the recent article [141219 MMDigest] and link showing the Mills Violano playing the "Nut Rocker", http://youtu.be/BOAuQIwzgCw I noticed the well-finished Violano, and also the violin appeared to have a good thickness of varnish. Question: Will too much varnish affect the violin's tone and...

•After enjoying the stories on the Link Aviation Trainer and the connection with the player piano, I thought I should mention that there was another connection with war time and the player piano -- a connection that lasts right into the present day. Hedy Lamarr became romantically involved with comp...

•A friend sent me this link. "Mechanical Music" ? Well it's not self- playing but I found it amusing and wanted to share it anyway: https://youtu.be/wZCh4EY_kug

•Thanks to Robbie Rhodes for providing a link to YouTube to hear Eubie Blake play "Strut Miss Lizzie". Although not credited to a piano roll, this is indeed Mel-O-Dee 4241. Personally, this is not my favorite piano roll version of "Strut Miss Lizzie". Rather, it is QRS 1364 played by Pete Wending wi...