•> I am having a go at making my own singing bird. I am using some > drawings to guide me along but have a question about a certain part. Good luck on the project. I am sure it will be challenging and enjoyable. I thought I would share a clock out of our collection that may interest you. It is a sin...

•Dear Lesley, So sorry for your loss. Upon reading your request I recalled an album I bought many years ago of French carousel organs that had "The Thieving Magpie Overture" on it. Here's a link to info about the album: http://www.carousels.com/bblack/vinyl/ccrecord0203.htm An MP3 audio file transfe...

•The Sanfilippo Wurlitzer 180 Band Organ (#3439) has duplex spoolboxes, both playing style 180 music rolls, plus a MIDI control system. It was originally sold to Puritas Springs Park in West Park, Ohio, near Cleveland. Bowers' Encyclopedia lists it as going to West Park, Colorado, a place that never...

•Hello All, I just was informed that Franz Oehrlein has passed away in the night from Dec. 18th to Dec. 19th. Franz was well known for his grind-organs and especially his automata. He constructed not only the figure scenes for his grind-organs, but also life-size trumpeter and drummer figures. Also ...

•Heinrich Burkard (who called himself Henry Burkard by 1914, at the latest) recorded at least 132 piano rolls for Welte-Mignon. The rolls numbered from 2195 to 2605 were recorded in Freiburg; a few rolls are dated, like 2195 with June 06, 1910, or the 2322 with January 5, 1911. Surely the rolls numb...

•We are trying to establish a manufacture date and the early history of Limonaire serial number 3404. What we know of its history is that it was owned by a Florida collector sometime in the 1980s or before, and was sold to a Wichita collector by a dealer sometime before 1990. In the sale, the seller...

•[ Mike Schoeppner wrote in 140905 MMDigest: > We are trying to establish a manufacture date and the early history > of Limonaire serial number 3404. Hello! I am the owner of Limonaire 49-key No. #3586 which is known to have been built in December 1904. I can ask the exact information for #3404. The...

•For sale: North Tonawanda Style 155 Military Band Organ, converted by the Artizan factory to play Artizan music rolls. This organ has a fun, circus-like decor and is very nice looking; no need to refinish the case. It needs some mechanical work but is 'very' restorable. It has 13 brass trumpets in ...

•I am interested in a Wurlitzer 105 band organ for in-home use, however a Wurlitzer 125 is available locally for about the same price. While the 125 is likely a better value, my concern is that it will be too loud in the house. My question is, if I close the stops on the trumpets, piccolos and other...

•A great question -- I guess a lot depends on house size and acoustics, but these organs were not intended for domestic in-house use. Before I had a trailer built for my Wurlitzer 125 organ, it sat in the ballroom of my house. When played I enjoyed it seated on the outside patio! More to your point ...

•John, yes, the Wurlitzer 105 is tuned a whole step flatter than what is written on the pipe scale. The starting bass note "G" is tuned to "F", and so on up the scale. Whether you tune to A=440 or A=435 is not really that important. The whole instrument being in tune to itself is important. The limi...

•Hi MMD Readers, The New Zealand Photoplayer is now at an exciting stage for us. The percussion case is all complete and we have been listening to the piano playing along with the bells, xylophone, chimes, and drums triangle and all the other instruments. In June, at the AGM of the Photoplayer Resto...

•Hello Robbie, I have been lurking on the forum now for close to 15 years, my last post being in the early 2000s. Much has happened since then. I now live in a rural village in interior Alaska and, to my knowledge, I have the only band organ in the state, a Wurlitzer 145-B. I had to comment on the A...

•Hello all, greeting from Wales in the UK. I am researching a writer and composer of Music Hall songs. His name was Henry (Harry) Beckett. He lived in Hoxton, Shoreditch, right on the East End of London, from 1867 to 1915. He described himself as a songwriter. He used the name Harry Beckett for his ...

•The Smithsonian has reissued the old Folkways LP record, "Music of the Carousel," on CD (available through Amazon). The individual tracks are also posted on YouTube. The original liner notes (mostly irrelevant and woefully out of date) are included on the CD as a pdf file. The organ is apparently a...

•After fifty-four years of Welte-Mignon beguilement now comes Ampico entrancement! (But, with not a fraction of a degree of that original fire of most passionate interest for the first, having lessened!) Only a few days ago a packet of newly-acquired Ampico graphical materials arrived here. Among th...

•How To Make Recordings Of Other Style 165 Roll-playing Organs Sound Like Glenn Thomas's Organ For anyone who has read or seen my post on how to make recordings from various Wurlitzer 165s or other band organs that have been converted to play the 165 scale and roll sound like a Wurlitzer 157, I've a...

•In the carousel at Flushing Meadows - Corona Park of Queens, New York City, sits the remnants of the largest organ made by the Gebrueder Bruder firm: the Style 102 106-keyless "Elite Orchestra Apollo" organ. Originally built in 1912 for Stubbman's beer tent in Coney Island, it was later moved to th...

Thanks to all for the welcoming messages. This looks like a great group! The Proteus 2 synthesizer on our Wicks organ is geared primarily to orchestral sounds. As such, it does a good job supplementing the organ, especially with solo stops, chimes, harpsichord, etc. While we haven't done a great dea...

In a message dated 96-07-12 10:54:44 EDT, Don Linder writes: > From: linder@cgc9.eda.mke.ab.com (Don Linder) > To: automatic-music@foxtail.com > Cc: linder@cgc9.eda.mke.ab.com > > Subject: An Intro > > I spent my lunch hour yesterday visiting the Lake Front here in > Milwaukee where the Circus World...