•I also heard the IBM chain printer make music when I worked at an IBM shop during the 60's. Later on I worked for an outfit that had a Honeywell computer with 8 tape drives that used vacuum capstans instead of pinch rollers to move the tapes. We had several programs that played the tape drives. Mos...

•Hello members. My name is Bonnie Mariani and I have been interested in mechanical music since I rode my first merry-go-round. I have followed people who owned band organs and bought every audio tape available. In the next year or so I wish to have a band organ. I was a commercial printer until last...

•Douglas Henderson had a lot of interest to say about roll interpretation in MMDigest 990116. In particular: > Would-be roll interpreters should _record their performances_ and > listen to them closely. ... Spend a little time tape recording your > roll interpreting efforts, and study the results. H...

•This is a very interesting approach, because it involves no commer- cially available pneumatic switches, e.g., those that were used in magnetic tape drives with vacuum loops (in the 1970s). Those switches can be found in electronic catalogues for $20 each. Could you tell us more about your design? ...

•I found a great site while surfing to-night. It's a guy's web site with all these recordings done in his Victrola. He has all these hit songs from 1900-1926(?) recorded on tape available for sale and available for preview over RealAudio. From this URL you can back up or go forward from there throug...

•Andy Taylor asked about recording a piano with a camcorder. First you might want to 'soften' the room a bit. Get a large piece of scrap carpet and toss it behind the piano. Just tape or tack it on the wall. If it's a bit larger than the piano, that's fine. Put some more on the floor and if you want...

•I learned this trick over in the model rocketry newsgroup, maybe it will help. Over there, they make there own decals using ordinary gummed packing tape or similar water-soluble material. Place the tape gummed-side-up, and spray it with several coats of varnish or polyurethane, then paint, draw, tr...

•Lyle Allen asked for the easy way to play Ampico rolls on an 88-note instrument (990523 MMDigest). The established method for this, amongst UK public performers who like to use reproducing rolls along with 88-note rolls, is to tape two strips of black bin bag material (which is thinner than most pl...

•Does anyone out there have the music for "My Heart is like a Violin"? I believe it dates around the 1920's but I'm not sure. I would appreciate any info on this. Sheet music or a recording (tape) would be excellent. Thanks, Julie Schimunek

•Burlap wrappers? I always understood that the wrap was paper. I have some rollers with paper about 5 3/4 wide, sealed with brown paper tape, that _could_ be original, but who knows? How does one tell what is original, and what was added by a careful owner? Todd Augsburger http://www.bright.net/~all...

•The first published mention of the idea was in 1888, in the American journal "Electrical World". One year later a Danish inventor, Valdemar Poulsen, began development of audio recorders using steel wire and tape and, at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900, he demonstrated what we now call th...

•Re: H-M's Player Piano Holiday Music Box I checked out the link for H-M's "Player Piano Holiday Music Box (plays paper tape)" for $99, and lo and behold, it's the exact same one I purchased in Target last Christmas season for between $50-60! Then again, H-M is not exactly known for their discount p...

•In MMD 990916, Jeffrey Borinsky mentioned that Ray Dolby (of Dolby noise reduction fame) worked on the design of the first commercially successful video tape recorder at Ampex. [ It appears that Dolby Dolby designed much of the electronics for that video recorder, but not the video heads ], accordi...

•Having moved numerous pipe organs, I have used several methods to retain connection information. The first is when the cables will not have to be pulled through a conduit. Heavily duct-tape the cable as it leaves the spreader-board connection. Use two layers of tape, one inside, one outside. Unsold...

•I have one single-sided and one double-sided Aeolian Vocalion records, and _both_ play just fine on my Russian "Rigonda" stereo system from the 1970's. I tape the records rather than wear them out on my old needle playing portable. I do not know what your problem can be, but wondered if other membe...

•I have been following the discussion about roll repairs. Years ago we spent hours removing old yellow tape and associated residue from precious rolls. At that time, we used the best thing that we were aware of, Scotch Magic Transparent tape (the frosty finished clear tape). Although we now know bet...

•I wrote to Snowflake records about the "Christmas Spectacular" CD that was played on an Aeolian residence organ. It is no longer being issued. Does anyone know of a tape, record, or CD played on any of the major residence organs, preferably in roll mode, as I am desperate to hear some of them? Ray ...

•This videotape seems to have caused some problems, mainly due to availability but unfortunately in the original editing of the posting the first part of the name of the tape THE ART OF PIANO was taken off. [ The subject line of your email was truncated when I received it, and [ the full title didn'...

•Hi MMDers. Five or six weeks ago I wrote in complaining of having to pay 50 Oz dollars for a roll of Filmoplast tape and where could I get it cheaper. I also enquired if anybody knew about an iron-on version of Filmoplast. I soon found out that there indeed is such a tape, and Hauke Marxsen supplie...

•Bill, I found the soundtrack to Pete Kelley's Blues listed at Amazon.com for 13.99 per CD but is it available to order? I have a tape of the movie and I think I remember one tune being played on the Seeburg G in the ballroom scene. It would be interesting to know what the second tune is on the albu...