•Piece of cake. Take a plastic garbage bag, and make a strip wide enough to cover the bottom 3 holes of the tracker bar, and one wide enough to cover the top 4 holes. Tape these to the spool box such that you can flip them down to cover the holes when playing Ampico/Duo-Art rolls, and up out of the ...

•To the previous comments I would add that the thin pieces of paper or plastic be placed between the tracker bar's top and bottom few notes be taped to a piece of thin cardboard that runs the width of the spool box instead of taped to the thin board running back from the top of the tracker bar. The ...

•I have heard some pretty realistic chicken sounds from some electronic toys in my grandson's toy box...perhaps you could 'lift' one from a toy to be activated when your vending machine is operated. Alternatively, you could record one of them and put them on an endless playback tape, such as those u...

•This is an addendum to a previous posting regarding "Walking the Baby Home." It is the same as the current posting on my WWW page if you click on the icon. * * * Nickelodeon Toe Tappers has been temporarily withdrawn from distribu- tion while the tape is re-edited to replace certain material with n...

•Ed, what you have is an "edit-master", something like the 1929 British roll I took to my presentation at the Piano Technicians Guild in Hartford CT on 3-18-98. Electrical tape, gummed labels, cellophane library tape and other things were used for fixing up the rolls. Usually, a factory ran a handfu...

•Recalling that a while ago a posting on MMD provided some very helpful information on how to find booksellers on the Internet, I thought I might be able to get some help with a videotape I have been looking for. The tape is of a film entitled 'The Night They Raided Minskys', which features a sequen...

•Could any one help me? I intended to set my VCR this morning for the CBS Morning show and I forgot did any one tape it that I might be able to get a copy? Would like to hear about it if no one did tape it. I was at church when this was on. Thanks to everyone that can help me. Beth Ann Carter ...

•In response to Tim Baxter's question; Anumber of years ago I checked this very thing on a Steinway Duo-Art upright that I had. Using a tape recorder and an oscilloscope I was able to determine that several of the notes played up to twenty-two repetitions per second. This was true in the treble rang...

•I wonder if anyone can recommend a way to get a handle on the model numbers of Wurlitzer Band Organs. Bruce Pier gave a good talk at the National Carousel Association's Technical Conference in Pittsburgh in March in which he ran down most of them with a slide show and a tape of each organ in sync. ...

•In Digest 980606 Alex Balic writes: > Do you have any idea where I may be able to find some parts or an > entire unit for a Music Technology Inc. Auto - Orchestra Model A0-1 ? Is this a unit that has an 8-track tape player as the "roll player"? If anyone knows about such an 8-track unit I would app...

•A friend of mine in the Ft. Lauderdale, FL area needs a Pianocorder technician. He has an instrument that needs help --the tapes won't track properly. His technician replaced the tape deck already and it did no good. That was several years ago. He just called the technician back and asked for help...

•Hi, I have some old recordings of radio news programs from the 2nd world war and I think I ought to get them on tape sooner or later. Them have some powder on them (I assume to keep them dry). It is sort of stuck to some of them. I have a record cleaning brush I got back in '81 when I bought a turn...

•Lyle Martin's RX-9 Project: Link Music for "88 Note" Players Recently Robbie asked: >[ Chuck, the tape recordings of the RX-9 project which I heard >[ sounded very much like a Link piano, but they seemed to have more >[ expression. Did Lyle Martin create a special expression/reproducer >[ system fo...

•Hello all, I would like to pass on my recent experiences with brittle paper in old rolls. I have been repairing such rolls using a special "Archival" tape, Filmplast-P, as recommended by John Phillips and others (MMD) and found it to be ideally suited to the task with many advantages over "magic ta...

•First of all, thank you Darrell Clarke for bringing this topic back in front of everyone. I'm a crusader for using this tape to repair all paper rolls, old and new! I wrote to about 5 companies to buy this tape back in 1996, and the one company that sends me catalogs regularly and seems most to wan...

•Hi, I need to get in touch with anyone who is has technical information about the PianoMation One system. I've already spoken to Bob Baker, Terry Dolan and Dave Steele. The problem is that the tape deck works, the power supply is making all the right voltages, everything is correctly connected BUT ...

•Hi again, For those in the UK, I will be appearing on the Chanel 4 programme "Collectors Lot" on Friday 23rd October at 3:30 pm. Don't forget to tape it. Brian Chesters

•Hi all. Because there is a roll repair thread running at present I'll describe an effort of mine from last weekend. I had a roll in excellent shape except for the tag, which had been ripped off and then crudely taped back in place with the wet-and-stick-on brown paper tape that I remember from my b...

•All: Apropos of nothing in particular, I just wish to point out that long after I'm dead and the oxide has peeled off the tape, the floppies and hard-disks have become unreadable and the backups long since abandoned, someone will come across one of my 88-rolls or A-rolls or O-rolls in an old pile, ...

•Here is the reply from Martha Stewart's organization regarding availability of the Steinway piano segment. It looks like anyone wanting one should probably tape it for their personal use when/if it re-runs. Although another writer spoke of having a copy, it is undoubtedly copyrighted material. Chec...