•Today I saw a vertical standing music box in the home of a woman who says it was bought new by her husband's grandfather. It stands about 6 1/2 feet high, 2 1/2 feet wide, and about 1 foot deep. There are about a dozen 24" perforated metal disks stored in a tilt-out compartment in the lower portion...

•I'd like to let everyone know that I was going through the yellow pages and found this book dealer who is hooked up to some 15,000 other old/used book stores. She said that she had a computer network for finding books and she goes on the Internet too. (who can't?) Anyway, her e-mail address is... a...

•I found this Grinnell Player piano and about 40 rolls. One of which looked like a demo roll for the piano. It says on the label, (no box) "Grinnell Medley No. 1 'Jigs and Reels' Melodee 1. Turkey in the Straw 2. Arkansas Traveler 3.Devil's Dream 4. Rory O'Moore 5. Highland Fling 6. Old Zip Coon 7. ...

•I don't know how to go about searching this out, but I've been wondering if a certain hymn has ever been cut to 88n piano roll? All the info I have on it is: "Easter", arr. from Lyra Davidica, 1708, 8.7.8.7.D meter, F.T.H. words copyright 1932 by the Christian Science Board of Directors. Any ideas ...

•Well its time to introduce TEMPOLA player rolls. I have been working on this project for months... The first run of TEMPOLA rolls should be ready in about two months. They are cut by one of the best perforators in the US. For now, Tempola is only available in 88 note and no words due to copyright l...

•There may be reason for confusion over the "Daddy Long Legs" tune, because there were TWO different tunes composed in 1919 invloving those exact three words. Albert Von Tilzer composed "Dear Old Daddy-Long-Legs" (which I believe is a One-Step; at least it appears as such on Wurlitzer roll 6557), pu...

•I have six 23-note music rolls made by J. Chein & Co., Burlington NJ. They are 6.75" wide on red or black plastic spools; each roll has one title on it. The latest copyright date on the rolls I have is 1950. According to the box they came in, there were 42 rolls available in categories Christmas Fa...

•I have to admit to not reading all of the postings through, but here is my two bits worth anyway. Was the Drinking Song from the Student Prince mentioned and, on a classier note, does "Libiamo, Libiamo" from La Traviata qualify ? BTW, the spelling on the cover of my Dover copy of the sheet music sp...

•Hi Andy, For years I have dreamed of a vorsester, ie a unit that can be placed onto a keyboard, and with its fingers plays that keyboard. Of course this was one of the earliest player piano developments. When Marantz Pianocorder came out in the seventies, there was a vorsester model. I almost ended...

•"Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton" - The Collected Piano Music. Transcribed from rolls and records by James Dapogny G. Schirmer, New York/London Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC. ISBN 0-87474-351-6 Copyright 1982 by Smithsonian Institution I'm not sure this is still published. Schirmer chang...

•Just as a mater of interest, I have an old 3-tune roll and one of the tunes on it is Alexander's Bagpipe Band. As I recall, it is a 1909 roll, or at least carries that copyright date. The tune, Alexander's Bagpipe Band, sounds very familiar as though it may have been renamed Alexander's Ragtime Ban...

•When purchasing new rolls from a music dealer, I know the *style* of music I'm looking for, and try to divine whether the arrangement will live up to my expectations based on the titles and short descriptions that you find in the publisher's catalogs. Sometimes I make bad purchases based on the cat...

•on 28Aug97 Bob Hunt Wrote: > For Terry Smythe -- I built a grand piano tilter designed very similarly > to the familiar upright piano tilter for just the reasons you described > in MMD. > > > > I have plans somewhere which I will try to find for you. If Bob Hunt locates the plans for the tilter, I'...

•The MMD web site is attracting e-mail sent to "webmaster@foxtail.com" from time to time. Most of the messages I receive are off the topic of MMD, but occasionally one will catch my interest. The following message was assembled from several e-mail messages received from Gary Schuler . If anyone has ...

•Dr. Johns, I share your interest in Gottschalk's music. I have what purports to be a complete listing of piano rolls made of his music (Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Bibliographical Study and Catalog of Works," by John G. Doyle, copyright 1983) although I have come across a roll not on that list (La Ga...

•In response to the question of the song "I Love to Sing," which appears in a Warner Brothers cartoon, here's what I know. The cartoon is called "I Love to Singa," and was directed by Tex Avery in 1936. There is a character in the cartoon called "Owl Jolson." As far as I know, Al Jolson had nothing ...

•[ Re-printed from Digest 96.02.10 ] Bob Conant described an interesting instrument built by a friend (Digest 960201), which creates music using hand-cranked "bowing wheels". It appears to me that "hurdy-gurdy" (and that's the proper spelling, too) is indeed the proper name! A recent book from the B...

•J. Dirk Sheffer wrote in Digest 971111: > Can anybody suggest a book or books on Restoration? The most comprehensive, detailed, and clearly written book in the field is Arthur Reblitz's "Piano Servicing, Tuning & Rebuilding", 2nd edition, copyright 1993, published by The Vestal Press. This is avail...

•I don't think you're going to find any Conlon Nancarrow Piano Rolls available at this point, but that should change sometime down the road. Jurgen Hocker was involved with Conlon (read the bio published a few years ago) and Jurgen gave a presentation on the rolls at the MBSI convention in Schaumbur...

•The title of the song with those lyrics is "Music! Music! Music!" written by Stephen Weiss and Bernie Baum, published by Cromwell Music, Inc., copyright 1950. The Teresa Brewer recording was released that year. QRS released a J. Lawrence Cook arrangement as Word Roll 8610. A recent QRS catalog list...