•I am offering for sale two built-up orchestrion kits. One is a Coinola SO replica case with "Operators Piano Co." plate and soundboard from probably a Reproduco. The case is about 7-1/2-feet tall, with stained glass door and birds, not original. It has a 10-tune replica Coinola spool frame and vari...

•Great News - Possibly Waldkirch's Largest Fairground Organ Secured for Preservation (They're still out there awaiting discovery!) Sydney, Australia, September 10, 2012 -- Culminating a patient but determined three decades of pursuit, Craig Robson of Fairground Follies in Sydney, Australia, has conf...

•>[ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornwerk_%28Instrument%29 >[ (my translation): >[ "In the Middle Ages such instruments were installed in special horn >[ towers within the fortifications of cities and monasteries. They >[ filled a function similar to a siren by, for example, acoustically >[ signalin...

•This weekend COAA (Carousel Organ Association of America) will hold what is usually the biggest rally in any year at Knoebels Amusement Park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, http://www.knoebels.com/ Knoebels is the largest free admission amusement park in America. This is the first time COAA will be ther...

•Coordinators Report - Photoplayer Restoration Trust, February 2014 For the last three months work on the photoplayer has continued at a good pace although we have not had meetings over the Christmas period. In this time I have made three trips to Hamilton to inspect the work and also one trip to Au...

•Hi all, a special newsletter about the first public display of the NZ Photoplayer. Enjoy! Regards, Don Paynter - The Photoplayer Restoration Trust Opotiki, New Zealand http://www.photoplayer.org.nz/ - - - Report on the New Zealand Photoplayer At the Waikato Home and Garden Show, 2nd to 5th October ...

•Back at my friend's Mediterranean style Chickering grand Ampico grand, it has recently decided to play on Rewind. Since I didn't do the rebuild, I'm having a difficult time tracing the tubing to figure out what has changed, other than looking for loose tubes. In Rewind, there is an independent valv...

•Most of the posts so far on this topic have missed the point somewhat. Gilles Chouinard was quite right saying, "Mixtures are not made to be played solo all by themselves. They are made to complement the palette of other stops so they are used in conjunction with these." However, although all Mixtu...

•I recently acquired a nice looking band organ but I have been unable to determine who built it. The case was replaced at some time but the original pump and chest remain. The vacuum action has Wurlitzer style unit valves and the roll frame appears to be a Wurlitzer 150 device. That is where things ...

•Robert never worked for Popper or any other instrument factory. His band organ started with a Wurlitzer tracker bar, and he built the instrument around that, with home-built chests and mostly rebuilt used pipes from various sources, as well as some homemade pipes. The sound is that of a band organ...

•I just received this list from a correspondent, with no restrictions on redistribution. The list includes some mechanical instruments. Bill Burns billb@ftldesign.com.geentroep Forwarded message: I wanted to make you aware of a collection of vintage pianos and organs that are in danger of being dest...

•I heard from Ruth Kromer today that her husband, William H. "Bill" Kromer Jr., of Wayne, Pennsylvania, passed away on October 17th. Bill was a long-time MBSI member and was busy repairing players when we first met in the early 1970s. He was a great character and a do-it-yourselfer of the first orde...

•* Walter Johannes Wilhelm Wurl (May 13, 1881-Jan. 21, 1951) -- born and died in Martinsville/North Tonawanda, New York; wife: Ella (Eleanor Henriette Louise Schulz) Wurl (1881-1975). Foreman in Wurlitzer's Music Dept., known there simply as "Walter Wurl." Noted on roll masters in Herschell Carrouse...

•Remember how I stated on MMD years ago that after each visit I pay to Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland, I would post how well or poorly their Wurlitzer 165's performance was on the day I visited. Well unfortunately, I got lazy and did not pay the slightest attention to the "sicknesses" the org...

•I have for sale a Welte Philharmonic 2/10 player pipe organ. It is not complete. It is missing the blower, swell shades and some of the pipework. These are all replaceable. There is a beautiful walnut console (and matching bench) with roll player, the special "stops reversible" machine that turns s...

•[ Scotty Greene wrote in 191217 MMDigest: > Is the actuation [control] lock and cancel? Hole #1 on the Style > 153 tracker bar is "Swell Shades Open". How do they get closed? I believe Scotty Greene is right in thinking that the swell shades control on a Wurlitzer 153 band organ is a lock-and-cance...

•Hello again, Thanks for the response on yesterday's post of the same topic. It does appear that Willis Boyd's organ is the organ displayed on Verbeeck's website. I must ask a follow-up question: where is the organ now? The COAA article suggests it was donated to a university in Michigan. The articl...

•The Apollonicon was a large mechanical organ built around 1817 by London Organbuilders Flight & Robinson for a hall in Bristol, but it was cancelled and displayed at their factory in St. Martin's Lane. The monumental instrument had five manuals and pedals and 45 stops that can be played by a human ...

•David Dilks wrote [210117 MMDigest]: > I have a homebuilt fairground organ having 320 pipes and playing > from the Carl Frei 72-key scale. I am seeking information on the > availability of a MIDI synthesizer that I can program to replicate > the sound of my organ to enable me to test run MIDI files...

•I am pleased to announce to readers my 2021 Wurlitzer 150 project. Unlike my last project of ten rolls, this project is only five rolls, making the price quite a bit less. The first roll is a brand new arranged roll of more modern tunes: well-known melodies from Broadway, movies and radio. Featurin...