I like Dave Miller's idea of plotting a histogram of the ages of MMD subscribers. (Of course, maybe it's just us Washingtonians going mad after 4-1/2 months worth of drizzle.) We might all be surprised at what we find. We could make it fun by adding our guess of the average age. Dave could let us kn...

With 21% of the precincts reporting in, here are the results so far: • Age Quantity --- -------- 6-10 11-15 16-20 ## 21-25 ## 26-30 ## 31-35 ######## 36-40 ################ 41-45 ########## 46-50 ################ 51-55 ################# 56-60 ############## 61-65 ######### 66-70 ### 71-75 76-80 81-8...

•Hi All! Another update on the re-issue of the Encyclopedia of Mechanical Musical Instruments, by Q. David Bowers. I called the publisher, again, yesterday -- they now have a issue date of around 8/15. Seems they had some trouble with some of the negatives and are trying to correct that problem. Sou...

•Hello again! I checked yesterday with the publisher and they now say that the books should be into their warehouse in a few weeks, then they have to package and process the orders, and THEN we should finally have them in our hands! They are only printing 1500 copies, and over 800 of those have been...

•Hallo Philippe, I spent a few days in Switzerland. Before starting that tour, I printed out your index of museums in Switzerland. Some data are out-of-date: > Fredy's mechanischer Musiksalon, > Haus "Zur Frohburg", Buergistrasse 5, 9620 Lichtensteig, SG > Tel.: (0041) 074/73766 > Directeur: Fredy K...

•Reply to Mike Grosser's letter about my price guide letter. Mike, Your last paragraph stated that the lady I talked to lied. She didn't. She simply didn't know any better! And I find that most people who have just one box and have not been exposed to others, really truly don't know WHAT the differe...

•A lady sent me an e-mail requesting info on a J. P. Seeburg as to the worth of restoration. She gave me two numbers. One on the inside front left (??) is 57505. Another in the plate is 59104. The picture she sent showed it to be in good condition. The glass is not original. I can send a picture to ...

•Since Mr. Chesters has chosen to bring this to the MMD, then all of you need to hear the other side of the story and make you own determinations as to who is the injured party. Mr. Chesters discusses the legal issue and fails to discuss the moral and ethical side of this. There is more to the story...

•Fully _not_ intending to start any kind of 'flame war', I do feel compelled to comment on subject post in the 980508 Digest, hopefully constructively representing an alternate viewpoint. First, I do agree that the objective of the MMD is music. However, I understand that the context of said music i...

•Author's Subject: Getting a Duo Art to Play More Than 80 Notes Ted Baxter, in the 980522 MMD, posed an interesting question about coming up with a way to play more than 80 notes from a Duo Art roll. I'd suggest the way to approach this is to use the shut-off port to trigger a device to shift the bo...

•Hi everyone, I have been using a Shure M91ED Cartridge for playing Edison Diamond Discs. I have two styli for playing records: a one-mil elliptical for playing 33s & 45s, and a 3-mil for playing 78s, includ- ing Edison Diamond Discs. Both needles are made by Shure and are marked "Hi Track". I purch...

•Dear Ken, I am very interested in your original Shadow Waltz recording. In the old days, hundreds of acoustical recordings were made from early Dutch street organs (from 1910 on). We have most of them in our KDV archive. It is possible that one of these tunes matches your recording. Is it possible ...

•Lee, With the help of my Canadian friend George Karpel, who knows those Wurlitzer tunes that I don't, we cracked the mystery of the Torin tune, "The Natchez And The Robert E. Lee," which I had hoped would lead to another undiscovered style 165 roll, because my 165 roll catalog does not show that ti...

•Dear Robbie, It seems that Tony Marsico has not yet figured out a way to clone himself, so his open house will be confined to his workshop and will not include his home. Since they are not in the same location, the logistics would be somewhat beyond impossible. Therefore, anyone who is contemplatin...

•HI All, I finally found a mildly effective search engine for the Player-Care domain. It came from HotBot and my preliminary tests are encouraging. The link to the search engine is "Search this Domain for .??." which is found on the index98 (or 98b).html page. That's the page right after the 'Front ...

•Wow. I really seem to have hit a sore spot here, and I'm sorry for that. [ Larry Lobel writes in MMD 98017 (prefaced by Robbie's recapitulation): ] > [ Ed Berlin's opening statement was: > [ > [> Much of what Gottschalk wrote has similarities with ragtime, > [> but that is not sufficient evidence t...

•[edited by robbie] > "Treue Liebe macht uns gluecklich - O, Liebe welke nie!" [ Robbie wrote, in MMDigest 980916: ] > [ "True love makes us lucky-o, love never ages!" Hey, why is it "lucky" this time, instead of "happy", as I have been taught for "gluecklich"? "Glueck haben" = "be lucky" "gluecklic...

•Hi, Folks! Just a quickie follow up to Jeffrey Borinsky's posting in 981020 MMD: > Slightly off-topic: The Columbia Graphophone Co. and the Gramophone > Company merged in 1931 to make Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI). Mr. Borinsky is absolutely correct, but to avoid confusion, keep in mind t...

•Mr. Waring has discovered an interesting variation of the 'Themodist' system, in describing the 'Triumphodist' [in MMD 9801123]. (In Europe, many vendors adapted the Themodist system, and sold them under various trade names, to avoid infringing Aeolian Company's 'Themodist' trademark.) The tubing a...

•I really wonder why those folks who automate guitars and banjos resorted to such complicated devices to strum the strings. Has anybody thought of using some harpsichord jacks for that purpose? I have toyed with the idea, and it would require the back of the instrument to be inlet, but that shouldn'...