•Hi! I just got in stock a small barrel piano; not a small street-type piano, but a vertical standing one. The footprint is about 16" wide by 14" deep by about 36" high. It sits on an end table very nicely! It has 22 notes, with three strings for each note. Does anyone have a tuning scale for these ...

•It is my understanding that the standard pitch of "A" at 440 Hz was established about 1930, and that before that many different values were in use. At DeBence we have been "guessing" what values to use on various machines. That sometimes has turned out poorly. Does anyone have a good listing of whi...

•Hello Scotty, in 1937 most countries in the West met to set out a standard tuning pitch. They agreed on A=435 Hz at [air temperature] 15 degrees Celsius and it is the only pitch standard ever ratified. This is very close to A=440 Hz at 20 degrees C. Many European instruments use A=435 but the USA i...

•I am to understand that the standard pitch changed in 1922 or '23. If the manufacturer had many xylophones and glockenspiels in stock at this time, then the orchestrions could have been shipped sometime after 1923 at the A-435 pitch. Steve Bentley - sending from sunny Swakopmund, Namibia, South Wes...

•Regards an orchestrion containing piano and other instruments, I would imagine that you tune the piano to any fixed pitched instrument which forms a part of the orchestrion, e.g., xylophone, organ pipes, etc. The important thing is, the orchestrion is in tune with itself. The actual pitch of any mu...

•An add-on question. I had once heard that someone tuned a Mills Violano-Virtuoso to A-440 causing the plate to crack and break, because the instrument us designed to be tuned at international pitch of A-435. Is any of this true? I have harbored this question for years only remembering it when there...

•[ Timothy L'Amoureux wrote in 130401 MMDigest: > I had once heard that someone tuned a Mills Violano-Virtuoso to > A-440 causing the plate to crack and break, because the instrument > was designed to be tuned at international pitch of A-435. Is any > of this true? I doubt it. When piano makers swit...

•Hi, Robbie, To end all confusion I attach a picture of a tuning fork from the 1920s stamped "C 523.3"; this corresponds to A=440 Hz. The fork then states "Official Pitch of A. F. of M. 1917". Then, "Adopted by U. S. Gov't 1920". Most coin piano and orchestrion builders continued to pitch their inst...

•Hello, everybody; As I told you in 130812 MMDigest, I'm working with several perforated disc formats, extracting MIDI data from a photograph. I'm getting great results. With a colleague, we have written a couple posts (in Spanish). You can find them at http://blog.tecnilogica.com/2013/04/04/formato...

•When I asked about the tuning pitch for our Coinola K everyone agreed it should be tuned to A=435 Hz and that turned out to be correct. In side comments, I was told all nickelodeons of the 1920s would be A=435 except for Nelson-Wiggen who tuned to A=440 Hz. We now are into our Western Electric Styl...

•For a friend of mine I request the tuning of the Symphonion disc driven Orchestrion (75 cm, 29.5") with 26 organ reeds or pipes, which he is trying to restore. We would be very grateful if somebody could inform us. Leo Cohen Luxembourg leomusic@pt.lu.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] ...

•Could anyone help me out please with the tuning scale for a Triolo mechanical roll-playing zither? Any help is greatly appreciated. Kind regards from Downunder, Don Taig

•I have used a Chromatia instrument tuner for a few years (I bought two versions). My PCs have had to be retired so I bought a MacBook Air laptop computer. Can anyone suggest an tuning application that is as good as the Chromatia tuner but is compatible with a MacBook? Steve Kember steve.kember@btin...

•[ Ref. Steve Kember in 200103 MMDigest ] Apple's GarageBand app, included with your new MacBook Air, has a tuner built in. There's a tubing fork icon in the control bar at the top next to the LCD display. Logic also has one, although it's almost the same as GarageBand. Of course if you're tuning a ...

•The tuning program suggested by Marshall Jose is not a piano tuning program. You might be able to use it to tune the temperment and then do the rest by ear or who knows what other method you might be able to use to tune your piano. Unless you are a professional ear tuner, I doubt it can be of any u...

Forwarded Message: • From: dc@freenet.ufl.edu To: ALL Orig: MBNET Subj: Want: Piano Tuning Softwa Area: 0-rec.music.maker Date: 05/13/95 ============================================================================ •Does such a thing exist, in the shareware OR the commercial software realms? I own th...

I agree with Doug Rhodes opinions of electronic tuning aids. However I think the subject of tuning machines has a special consideration in this Mechanical Music Digest. I am a little rusty on the tuning requirements of such instruments as the Mills Violano, and say Seaburg Nicholodians, (and spellin...

I have started to write this note at least three times and each time it came out way too long and with far too much detail. This effort may be no better but here it is anyway. There is so much material and questions to answer on this complex topic that there is easily enough for a workshop at some f...

Does anyone on the list have experience with tuning band organs in other than equal temperament? In particular I would be interested in whether the Wurlitzer 150 scale organs would benefit from some other temperament. Fritz Gellerman

Robbie Rhodes: As we discussed on the phone, I have listed below the tuning scale for the Wurlitzer 150 which gives the de Caus "just" temperament, expressed in equal temperament cents. Perhaps by sending this through the MMD others will contribute their two cents worth. • C 0 cents C# 71 D 204 E 38...