•We are trying to get full information on a number of style "A" coin piano rolls that have lost their leaders and thus their tune identification. We can recognize a few tunes on each roll. In a few cases there is a number at the inner end of the roll. If there were a rollography to access we could p...

•We are still trying to completely identify music rolls that came to us with Jake DeBence's collection. Matt Jaro has been very helpful with lots of "A" Rolls, but he doesn't do "M" rolls. I would appreciate it if someone could send me a tune list for Cremona M roll #158? Scotty Greene - DeBence Mus...

•DeBence is gathering material to produce a nickelodeon from one of our player pianos. We want it to play style "O" rolls, and therefore we need an "O" roll spool drive. Does anyone know of a source for an electric motor driven "O" roll drive complete with tracker bar? Scotty Greene - DeBence Museum...

•The DeBence Museum has an Ampico A pump taken from a grand piano (a Knabe or Beckwith?) which physically seems in good shape, but we have no knowledge as to whether or not it needs a rebuild. It comes complete with the pulley, mounting brackets and tubing fittings. It just takes up space and we do ...

•We are thinking about rebuilding the player action stack on our Weber Pianola 46P dated 1909. We have done Standard stack rebuilds, but what sort of stack does the Weber have? Will we be sorry for even thinking about this job? Scotty Greene - DeBence Museum Franklin, Pennsylvania

•We have come into possession of a Telelectric roll in an original box. The label says it is no. 13124, "The Chocolate Soldier", by O. Strauss. It runs in and out okay. We have no way to know if the box label is correct and, aside from the first 8 or 10 inches, we have no way to check the whole leng...

•I have followed the discussion about how to seal a pouch with interest. We are now working on a Knabe Ampico and trying to get it to perform well. As a novice I was taught that pouches did not need anything beyond a good tight leather, because if they leaked a little you compensated with adjusting ...

•Karen Mathis asked about restoring a Piano Lodeon [161115 MMDigest]. DeBence Museum has two, and I have worked on both of them, but I have to say they were not designed for repair. Being mostly plastic (and not very high quality plastic, at that) there was no provision made for easy or even possibl...

•DeBence museum has most of the player parts for subject player piano, and they appear in good condition. Not included is the stack or any of the piano parts; it's just the player pumps and reservoir assembly, all the roll drive parts, the expression box and other controls on top of the stack. If an...

•Jim Quashnock asked about 28-note Tanzbaer rolls [170208 MMDigest]. Schmidt's Music rolls has stopped producing new recuts, but did have some on hand. Worth a try anyway: http://www.music-rolls.com/ Scotty Greene - DeBence Museum Franklin, Pennsylvania

•I have been watching with interest the discussion about dispersal of the Randolph Herr collection. There is one big lesson here, that a collector needs to make provision for the disposal of a collection, not just leave it to the heirs to decide. As instruments from the 20th century pass from hand t...

•Does anyone have experience treating motor cloth on pneumatics with using the vinyl/rubber sprays used on car interiors -- either to try to restore older airtight but slightly stiff pneumatics, or as a life extender on new jobs? Scotty Greene - DeBence Museum Franklin, Pennsylvania

•After a lot of searching I have been unable to find a Marquette company set of list prices for Cremona orchestrions. Does anyone know of such a list? Specifically, what did the models C, G and J sell for ca. 1915? Scotty Greene - DeBence Museum Frankln, Pennsylvania

•Earlier this month we launched a completely revised website (still at www.debencemusicworld.com ) and started a weekly blog about our machines. Please take a look and see what we need to do to make it better. Scotty Greene - DeBence Antique Music World Franklin, Pennsylvania http://www.debencemusic...

•We have a Jesse French and Sons player from 1926 with a string driven tracking mechanism. The string is broken. We can probably get it working through trial and error, but it sure would be a help if there were a set of instructions on how to properly set up and adjust this mechanism. Can anyone off...

•We are now working on our Link AX, ser. no. 3487. Jake DeBence wanted his machines to play, but he was not so interested in authentic details of "unnecessary" functions. Our Link AX has had the mandolin rail removed. We can guess at the proper arrangement but would like to know how far down the sca...

•If you have been following the DeBence blog, you know we have been doing maintenance work on our Link AX, serial number 3487. This is a very late machine. I have it all back together and something is clearly wrong. I put on what is labeled AX roll no. 139 cut by Clark Music Rolls. I assumed it was ...

•[ Ref. Andrew Barrett in 170922 MMDigest ] I missed the start of this discussion, but has the Berry-Wood model A.O.W. orchestrion already been dismissed? Ours, which we think is the last one in existence, uses rolls punched at 6-to-the-inch spacing and 15-1/4 inches wide. We do not have a scale for...

•DeBence Antique Music World museum is now in possession of the 50-note Maestro mentioned several times in the past on MMD that belonged to James Williams. Unfortunately it is missing some critical components which we can probably reproduce if we had any idea what they were. Based on what we have be...

•There was a recent post on MMD asking about proper speed for rotary pumps [171121 MMDigest]. On several machines that we have worked on, where the roll speed was set at the lower end of the range, we have concluded that this was done in order to change pulley ratios to speed up the pump to compensa...