•In the 06.09.24 MMD Roger Wiegand wrote: > In thinking about the best way to add a MIDI interface to a keyed > fairground organ, it seemed to me that one of the easiest, most > transferable, and most sympathetic means would be to make a "mini- > Vorsetzer" that would clamp on to the keyframe in pla...

•A Home Expressions Show is going on this weekend at our downtown convention center here in Winnipeg. A local piano dealer, Richard Creasy, has fitted a new Heintzman grand with a new solenoid player system called PianoForce that he acquired at the recent NAMM show, a very neat package, certainly su...

•Mark A. Williamson wrote: > I remember avidly watching "The Acme School of Stuff" when I was > growing up but as it wasn't made until the late 80s I must have been > a teenager. This [QRS] story in particular stands out in my memory. Hi Mark, Glad you enjoyed the QRS video. The videographer, narrat...

•I have been following this thread with interest. Like many here, this is something that I would not have done. I have never heard an elec- tronic system that could play like a well-rebuilt Ampico system that is installed in a piano that is properly regulated. They just do not have the same dynamic ...

•Thought this might help someone with a tubing chart for their reproducing player piano. Sincerely, Jeff Bridges http://www.google.com/patents?id=inp5AAAAEBAJ&dq=lock+and+cancel http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT1639105 Reproducing Piano Patent number: 1639105 Filing date: Jul 12, 1921 Issue da...

•Hi All, I've been getting a bunch of correspondence from different folks who have installed or are interested in installing Wayne Stahnke's LX system in their pianos. Because of the various technical and music sourcing questions I've come across, I'm wondering if there might be enough interest to s...

•Hi John, In regards to your questions about the Universal Player piano, give Randy Cox a call in Anaheim Hills. He knows the original owner of the Universal Player Piano Co, Don Barr, and has done some work for him recently. Perhaps Don has kept some records and can answer your questions. Randy's t...

•We had a similar problem and solved it by accident. While building a recording studio in our home, we had limited area for storage for the building materials. Much of the bulk was in sound proofing. These materials were temporarily stored beneath our Knabe Pianocorder. When we played the piano at n...

•Hello all, I'd like to install a MIDI controller to an upright piano and I wonder what others have done. I want to play MIDI files of 88-note rolls and "A" roll music. Later I might add a second instrument, such as a xylophone or possibly flute and/or violin pipes. I know of the Pianocorder and Pia...

•Melvyn Wright (the extraordinary Noteur Britannique) posted a link to an old BBC program from 1985, "The Great Egg Race," with Prof. Heinz Wolf, on the Mechanical Organs Forum: http://mechanicalorgans.freeforums.org/ Three teams try to create a robotic pianist (push up player) that is capable of pl...

•John, et al, I'm not sure about the repeated verses, but I had an original copy that was really tattered and some time ago someone offered a re-cut (with words) and I bought a copy. It's still tucked away somewhere. I made a MIDI/KAR copy (for my Pianocorder with an attached Superscan) using the ne...

•[ Paulette Smariga wrote in 110529 MMDigest -- > It is true that in general, the population that are members are older, Dear MMD, I resemble that statement! And I am middle age -- that is, if I live to be 132. :) Gotta keep humor even if your hip hurts. By the way, I walk three miles a day, and I s...

•[ David Dunn wrote in 110718 MMDigest > I have the Celebrity Series QRS roll of "Tea For Two", roll number > CEL-117, arranged and played by Liberace. I am sure I can get it > scanned onto a MIDI file as well. That tune (plus more) is available on a Pianocorder tape, recorded live by Liberace at th...

•These early music transcribing systems deserve mention: - Peter Phillips and Wayne Stahnke, working independently in the late 1970s, built pneumatic transcribing systems which created electronic digital data files of Ampico piano rolls. Ref. http://www.petersmidi.com/photos.html - Teledyne Controls...

•Dear David, Greetings from The Bronx. In regard to what hammers to purchase, it's not so much the hammer manufacturer, as it is the weight of the hammer felt -- the heavier the felt, the brighter the sound. You might want to contact an accomplished piano technician (not just your run-of-the-mill pi...

•Hi MMD, Bob Taylor does a fine job of summarizing and bringing the MIDI commentary up to date. I also have experienced the difficulty of unscrambling MIDI files some of which will contain up to 15 tracks. This proved to be beyond my computer and musical capabilities. I could not even interest anyon...

•Hi all, I have just acquired a Marantz Vorsetzer unit. I wish to modify it for my roll arranging and transposing purposes. I would like to know the maximum voltage and amperage for the solenoids that play the keys. Many thanks in advance, Brian Thornton smmw@mindspring.com.geentroep [delete ".geent...

•In response to Wayne Finger's post: I suspect that there are several MIDI players which will work for you. Your challenge may be to get a Bluetooth receiving unit that can keep up with all the signals and not lose any of them. I have seen the MIDI version for the Violano, and the YouTube video show...

•Back in September, 1988, within our AMICA Bulletin, I focused attention on a self-evident truth. The very heart of our very special interest -- music rolls -- are dying of old age. I appealed to clever people in our community to find a way to capture roll data in some form of computer process. In m...

•In an earlier message to the MMD, I reported that my ISP (Shaw.ca) was abandoning its website customers. Not only that, a glitch of some kind emerged earlier whereby some of my sub pages and files were no longer available. Any attempt now to visit my old site (Rebirth of the Player Piano) will be g...