•I remember reading the story (perhaps here?) some time ago of the American who made tape recordings (using captured German recorders) of Welte piano rolls at the Welte's summer cottage deep in the Black Forest, and going through miles of red tape(!) to get the reels home to America to issue as phon...

•Indeed, the word chad was used in conjunction with Teletype tape. Chad is actually a collective noun, as is dirt, etc. The Teletype perforators of one type completely punched out the hole and the resulting bits of paper collected in a small bin below the punch mechanism known as a "chad box" or "ch...

•George Bogatko asked: > Out of curiosity, is the tape an old tape? Cassette tape, like > any other magnetic media, suffers data loss over time. While this can be a problem with any cassette tapes, due to poor handling and storage, I have not experienced it. I have old original Pianocorder tapes, ne...

•Hi Group, Did Pianocorder ever produce a digital cassette tape of Christmas music for the Marantz Pianocorder? If so how can I get a copy? On Mark Fontana's Pianocorder Forum, he says that there is a downloadable WAV file of hand-played Christmas music that can be copied onto a cassette tape for th...

•Being one who forgets easily, I am not comfortable with sticking tape on a tracker bar unless it can be removed easily, even if forgotten for a while. The idea of using thin plastic and putting the tape somewhere other than on the bar itself is a good one but my method works too. I often have to co...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I am interested in getting a cassette tape to play on my carrousel. The carrousel that I have is one from 'Melody in Motion' and it had a tape in with your address and phone number on it but I didn't know if you were still in business because I p...

•Dave Snowdy wrote in 030103 MMDigest: > I was wondering what the options are for operating the Pianocorder > without cassette tapes. Go back to the Mechanical Music Digest home page, http://mmd.foxtail.com/ go to Archives, Subject, P, Pianocorder. The information you need is there. It's a simple ch...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Does anyone have a tape or recording of the following organs: the Bruder organ on the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Carousel, or the B&B Carousel in Brooklyn, NY, or of the Gavioli organ on the Rye Playland Carousel? If you can, please e-mail a mu...

•If anyone is interested, several years back I produced a recording (cassette tape) which was digitally recorded professionally of one of the last original playing Ampicos in existence! Apparently six were built in the factory in 1942 and were the last of the regular production run. When this record...

•Marking pneumatics can be done in numerous ways, by using masking tape and marking pen, marking pen on the boards, or by using metal dies that are hammered to emboss the wood. One of the best ways for a beginner is to number and remove every other pneumatic, thus making it quite obvious for the exa...

•Hi Robbie and everyone, I have a few song titles for Andrew Barrett's cassette tape. #5: Im Zigeunerlager, played on a Gavioli fair organ, unknown author of the song, but I have the record. #23: Lustige Brueder March, played on Rudi Mullers Bruder organ, same organ on track 30. I'll listen to some ...

•Joel Shprentz wrote in 040911 MMDigest: >> Also, the studio originally planned to play a Hammond tape but >> the Pepiots convinced them to use a pipe organ recording by >> E. Power Biggs instead. I don't remember the name of the movie, but there was Andy Griffith sitting on the bench "playing" this...

•You can convert regular 1.44 Mb disks to 720 kb by placing a piece of tape over the "other" hole at the top of the diskette, i.e., the one which does not have the write-protect slide in it. This hole is used to detect whether the disk is 720 kb or 1.44 Mb. If you cover the hole, the drive thinks th...

•That's it! Please, no more on duct tape, no more on Scotch tape, no more on WD-40, no more on vegetable oil! I want to read about items that will help me learn about mechanical music before all you old farts die and take all the secrets with you. How about something new. I was about to sit down and...

•On covering the pneumatic hinges, a piece of masking tape used to keep the pneumatic shut while covering it works great. Greg Seagraves

•Hi All, Some of you may remember that Craig Brougher produced a number of VHS training tapes about ten years ago. Mostly, they cover the Ampico A & B systems, i.e., how they work, rebuilding, regulating, installing, and testing. One of them addresses the Ampico system that was made by Amphion, and ...

•Hello -- Regarding the repair of rolls I have long used 3M (or even generic brands) Magic Mending Tape, or also called frosted tape. I have rolls that I repaired 40 years ago with this tape and all is fine other than the tape darkening a bit. Also, it is very inexpensive. Best, Marc Goodman Clevela...

•Hello MMD -- On my last posting about roll repair [100519 MMDigest] I said I used Goo Gone Xtreme for removing Scotch tape from rolls. Since then, they changed the formula, and now it dissolves the tape also, leaving a mess of slush to clean up. I have gone back to using marine finish thinner, that...

•I'm stumped as to how to open the lower cabinet of Deagan's "roll-top" cabinet that contains the paper roll tape player in the upper cavity. The upper roll-top opens fine, but there apparently is some locking mechanism that prevents the lower cabinet from opening freely. There is no apparent key en...

•Hello MMD and Don Teach. Whenever I put a length of tape along one edge of a roll, I always put an equal length along the opposite side, even if that side is in perfect condition. This avoids a re-rolled roll whose diameter is larger on one side compared to the other. A roll like that would surely ...