•Hal Davis mentioned that he saw a Wurlitzer Monster on PBS. Well, Hal, thanks for the compliments on the organ sounding nice! It's the 1909 Monster that we restored in 1976, located in the beautiful original 1905 PTC [Philadepelphia Toboggan Company] #6 carousel in Burlington, Colorado, near the Ka...

•In the early years, I worked on a few Aeolian Duo-Art Reproducing Organ player units. The biggest problem was the quality of paper used in making the rolls. Even back in the late 1940's this paper, used to produce Aeolian Duo-Art rolls, was becoming brittle. It was not much better than ordinary new...

•Hello! I haven't been writing some time now, but now I'm bit irritated by this posting about electronic fairground organs... Paul Allen wrote in Digest 960813: > I was interested to hear from Robbie that Andy LaTorre has built a > similar organ to mine. As requested here are a few more lines. > > M...

•I've just collected my first cylinder music box. Needless to say, I don't know much about them. Hopefully someone out there can tell me what I have (i.e., the date and if it is a good one). Let me describe. This is a Swiss made 10-tune box measuring 16 L x 6 3/4 W x 4 3/4" H. The cylinder is 15.5 c...

•Thanks, Ingmar Krause, for your description of Les Gets Festival in the 980721 Digest. It is true there were so many people participating (more than 300, with probably a hundred instruments in the streets, from the smallest to the biggest ones), or attending (many thousands of visitors), that it wa...

•Here's another idea I thought of to speed up solenoids or other electromagnets, while driving home from the MBSI Band Organ Rally in Berrien Springs, Michigan. (A great event, where I enjoyed myself even more than last year. Mid-AM really does have more fun!). Light bulbs and coils behave exactly t...

•In one of last week's digests the was mention that a band organ with 70 Wurlitzer style 165 rolls was offered for sale on the UsedRides web site. Since the asking price seemed very low and the ad was posted last May, I doubted the organ was still on the market. But I inquired and found it is. Here ...

•Dear Jerry and others, The record you mention was one of my favorites, Mercury's recording of Beethoven's "Wellington's Victory". It was presented by Antal Dorati and the London Symphony. From what I've heard, it ranks up there with finding an original copy of the Mercury "1812" or the 2-record set...

•Re: 980820 MMDigest Rick Inzero said in MMD980820: >Bill Kibler writes: >> The Panharmonicon was a behemoth automated mechanical orchestral >> machine ... It could also be made to shoot off muskets and other >> weaponry. > Whoooo-eeee! I no longer want a Wimpy Wurtitzer! > I'm gonna get me one of t...

•Thanks, Larry Lobel, for your wonderful report of our meeting in San Francisco. Gee, I'm blushing fourteen shades of red from all your generous words. Likewise, I enjoyed meeting you, and I'm glad that you were able to make it to my sister's sale. (How is that sharpened punch working?) Sorry it too...

•After retiring, I have been cleaning out a lot of things, and found a crumbling Aeolian Duo-Art Pipe organ tracker bar scale, from the days when I worked on a few of them. I thought I would pass on the information to those who have an Aeolian Duo-Art Player organ and to those interested. The inform...

•During my high school and college years in the 1960s, before I could afford even the smallest nickelodeon, I collected mechanical music record albums. The Schwann catalog included tantalizing titles like "Quarterlodeons," "Dutch Street Organ," "Honky-Tonk in Hi-Fi," "Nostaglia in Hi-Fi" (yes, _Nost...

•Craig Brougher has stirred up a great discussion on one of my old favorite topics. He says: > That is a very interesting and helpful letter from Richard Schneider That's for sure! I wish I could have "talked" with professional organ builders like this back in my college days! > Those four character...

•Jill Miller said, "No advertisements for selling your own rolls should be placed on MMD. I don't think this is the place to advertise your wares." Admittedly I have a vested interest in this subject but I totally disagree with Jill's point of view. I joined MMD because it was a unique facility wher...

•Replying further to Paul Ward regarding coin piano rolls and band organ construction [MMD 990924, "O" Tracker Bar Assignments]. In deciding what type or size of band organ to build, you need to consider how much time and money you want to invest, and weigh that against your skill as an organ builde...

•Yes, you can make an organ pipe out of PVC or concrete or just about anything. You just have to have a way to lower or raise the languid and manipulate the upper lip. When he was researching new pipe tones, Robert Hope-Jones made organ pipes out of every known substance . He invented the Tibia pipe...

•[ In 000406 MMD visitor Charles Dyer described a Wurlitzer Style BX [ theater organ he wishes to sell. I would love to persuade my institution (Univ. of California, Irvine) to acquire such an instrument. It's been a dream of mine for quite a while to get a theater organ installed in the student cen...

•Robert Linnstaedt wrote: "I hope Professor Liljencrants in his next discussion can include a word about cylindrical vs. conical resonators. I have wondered at the 'why' behind their special characteristics and how one causes the nodes to aggregate at one end only." I'm not the good professor, but I...

•Dr. Liljencrants, thanks for your excellent article. Reeds are a complex subject. I now understand them much better. I was looking at some spectrum envelopes of instruments on my analyzer tonight when it suddenly dawned on me how we can tell instrument sounds apart. I was looking at an oboe WAV fil...

•In MMD 000418 Johan Liljencrants wrote: > The frequency is quite a lot higher than the natural one for the reed > (as determined only from its mass and elasticity) because it does not > oscillate in a sinusoidal fashion like a free reed. It rather goes > in a sequence of half-periods -- when trying...