•I am looking for MIDI files to punch rolls with my MIDster Punch for my John Smith Senior 20. Robert Lesko [ MIDster Punch [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/16/03/25/160325_120618__wsb_619x468_punchpic7+GIF.gif

•I recently purchased a MIDster Punch and I would like to know if anyone can tell me how to add MIDI files to the original Bob Essex MIDster program. Robert Lesko

•Is anyone around who can arrange and punch new music for 88-key Arburos? Maybe somewhere another Andy Park is ready to tackle this. I would like to get good boogie woogie fox trots or some rock and roll from the 50s to the early 60s. Mike Perry

•Some more details on my "Melodian" Japanese punched cardboard strip music box. Note I misspelled mine in the first posting ["Melodean"], but now I have the little manual in front of me. It is from "Melodian Co. Ltd." of Uchikanda Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo; no mention of Sankyo, but many Japanese companies a...

•I (HensTooth Discs) have started punching new Criterion discs. I have a new 15-3/4" disc (copy of Criterion #4111, "The Marseillaise"). I'm in need of someone to give it a test play for me. You may keep the disc. Following the advice of others who have reproduced Criterion discs, this disc is made ...

•Dave Krall asked about custom punches for pouch leather [200930 MMD]. With modern electrical discharge machining (EDM) techniques, custom punches have become more affordable but are still very expensive. Punching the simple round holes can be done with stock tubular punches from Pace Punches ( http...

•Joel Cluskey mentioned gluing his punchings to the fiber discs with hide glue. If you end up using new fiber discs, test before gluing your actual parts, as hide glue will not stick adequately to some fiber discs. Mine were from PPCo. I had to scuff-sand the discs first, or use plastic glue. Mike S...

I have been following the recent discussions about roll-punches and how this is to be achieved. I build small hand-turned (monkey!) organs and have adopted the German Raffin 20 and 32 note scales, together with a 26 note scale which has six extra holes on the existing 20 note format. A great variety...

Karl Petersen's description of a sideways cylindrical punch that would more cleanly append to continuous punched lines is a nice plus to the cupped punch theory. The punch I saw looked more like a cupped potato chip - but K.P.'s method (maybe I picture a tilted cupped potato chip?) will help yield a...

I am making slow progress on my roll punch project. I guess I'm putting the cart before... since I still don't know how I am going to capture roll data. I feel more comfortable with the more mechanical aspects of the punch which is why I'm doing the punch first. I had another idea for a possible sca...

Richard Vance said: > As long as the first and last punch in any particular note or > dynamic instruction is properly placed on the recut, and at > least three or four holes overlap at the beginning of the slot, > then it doesn't matter what chaining pattern the recutter's > computer places in the r...

•To those who are building perforators: Wayne Stahnke has developed Punch, a software which controls the perforator's solenoids. Punch runs on any PC and uses standard ".WEB" and ".ANN" roll files as input. For information about Punch, please contact Wayne Stahnke at . I am developing a solenoid dri...

•There is an oil additive made by Power Punch that increases the adhe- sion of oil greatly. It will not prevent it from flowing into tight spaces (within reason) and does not decrease lubricity. It can be used full strength in gear boxes that are not subject to cold temperatures. It might be a good ...

•John Dewey uses these dies like an arch punch to make his gaskets, but I've seen them used on an old small-size printing press (the type about a foot high). The pressure is even and it seemed to work. These presses can be had from flea markets for around $100, I think. Philip Jamison Pennsylvania ...

•John Dewey wrote about obtaining steel rule dies to punch out gaskets easily. Good sources of steel rule dies are available in most larger cities. If a source is not readily apparent, a quick request to one of the larger commercial printing plants (typically not a newspaper) in your area can get yo...

•>[ Will you attend the class about how to punch book music? ;-) Shall I hold one? :-) Up to now I didn't even knew that there would be such a class... ? [ Yup! See the MMD Calendar web page. -- Robbie Now I'm definitely off for France. Back on Wednesday. greetings by(e) InK - Ingmar Krause ERlanger...

•I'd like to mention that the paper punch for my Melodian strips (and presumably for the Sankyo machines) doesn't need a wide throat (long jaws). My strips are only 2.75 inches or 69 mm wide, and my special punch has only a 1.5 inch throat. You do have to punch high and low notes from the top and bo...

•Referring to Tim Trager's subject "Computerized Book Music Punching Machine" (MMD 99.12.22), Robbie Rhodes invited me to tell something about the various cost elements of book music. I guess that in particular he wanted to know how much computerized punching will reduce the price of a complete orga...

•I have transcribed a number of Playasax rolls and can punch them out at any time. I have the paper, and have found a source for the cores of the rolls. What has delayed the project is obtaining the plastic spool ends for the rolls. A friend of mine is hopefully going to be able to make the spool en...

•Don Teach listed a number of firms that punch music rolls, which he thought included all of the firms in the US. I am sure there are a number of others that punch music rolls. Walter Moore has punched rolls, and he has Carl Semon's dies for several different instruments. I have punched rolls for ov...