•I have for sale a large collection of approximately 80 Green Welte rolls and 40 Red Welte rolls. If anyone is interested, please let me know otherwise I will list some on eBay. Many thanks. Brian Chesters Blackpool, UK

•Hello, My husband has been restoring and collecting player pianos and rolls for more than the last 20 years. We have always been looking for Welte 'Green' rolls. If I were able to find one for him for Christmas it would be a wonderful gift. If you have or know of any I would really appreciate info ...

•Hi All, I'm trying to locate a diagram that was drawn in July 1974 by C. Drummond. It's a tubing diagram for a Welte-Mignon (Green Roll) system, which was taken from a 1925 Steinway grand. It measures 23" x 17" and has the tubing diagram on one side and the stack block diagram on the other side. Th...

•My commentary is written between the lines below. I hope that is helpful. [ I wrote back to Allen Ford with some T-98 information whereupon [ Hans-W. Schmitz replied to both of us. -- Robbie >> I therefore ask what is the tracker bar scale of the T-98. > 1. The T-98 scale is given in this book: > >...

•Here is a message I received the other day! I know some of you will be willing to help out. Sam Harris -- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- From: opticomp@ww-interlink.net Sam, please do post my request on the Mechanical Music Digest. I am looking for an organ grinder with a monk...

•There is a Wurlitzer player piano in a shop here in town. The piano has been in a house all it's existence and the piano plays, but will need the usual "get it in shape" work. The player has never been touched and it has the metal "boxes" on the front of the stack marked Wurlitzer. Serial number 10...

•Can someone give a basic explanation of the difference between a so-called "Green Welte" piano and a regular Welte-Mignon Licensee instrument? Thanks, Tim Gautreaux

•Responding to Tim Gautreaux's question about the difference between Green Welte and Welte-Mignon Licensee pianos: At some point in the 1920's Welte in Germany figured it would be economically advantageous to also make a piano that used 11&1/4" paper for the rolls, using standard flanges, a more sta...

As an archivist I'd be doubtful about having any elastic compound in contact with paper for a long time. I would prefer to use unbleached cotton tape to tie round rolls with the minimum risk of contamination. Adam Green

•Hi Robbie, I received a request today for information about pianolodeon rolls, which I don't think I've ever heard of before. Here is the request, in case anyone on the MMD circuit has run into these before and can shed light on this. Many thanks and all the best! Frank > > Subj: mystery rolls > > ...

•The MMD people are going to try to establish a method by which they recognize each other at the AMICA meet this year. Could we do the same at the MBSI meeting in The Queen City(Charlotte, NC) this year; maybe a green or other color dot on the name badge itself could serve as a Moniker. Any thoughts...

•Hi, I'm restoring a 1906 UK Aeolian Upright 'Pianola' player piano in California which has the Themodist system incorporated. (I bought it in the UK 8 years ago, no room to do anything with it until I moved to the US.) Whilst checking out my tubing requirements underneath the keybed I made an unfor...

•Hi MMD'ers, A couple of weeks ago I posted a call for help to see if anyone could supply me with a missing part on my Aeolian 'Pianola', namely the bass/treble expression control unit that has the foot pump as an input and both sides of the pneumatic stack as outputs. Unfortunately, no-one was able...

•I'm looking for a Themodist expression control box for my Aeolian Pianola (UK, circa 1906 I believe) to return it to original condition. The mounting screw locations are as follows:- Back 2 mounts are 9 1/8" apart. Front 2 mounts are 3" apart. Keybed mounting bracket holes are 4 1/4" apart (front t...

•Hi, I'm looking for a Themodist expression control box for my Aeolian Pianola (UK, circa 1906 I believe) to return it to original condition. The mounting screw locations are as follows:- Back 2 mounts are 9-1/8" apart. Front 2 mounts are 3" apart. Keybed mounting bracket holes are 4 1/4" apart (fro...

•Hi, I'm looking for someone in the Bay Area, CA (Santa Cruz, San Jose) that I can take a couple of my 'restoration in-progress' player parts to for rebuilding. I need the foot pump and reservoir bellows re-done, and one expression box. If anyone has recommendations, I would appreciate their informa...

•Hi, I'm looking for someone in the California Bay Area or Northern California region to do some bellows cloth recovering for my Pianola I'm restoring. I've tried to replace the cloth (twice) but couldn't get a good enough adhesion of the thick cloth to the wood, and then it frustrated me. So, I'm f...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello! I'm interested in the street barrel pianos, specifically in the tuning thereof. Would a piano tuner have been employed, or would the player have tuned and maintained the instrument himself? Grateful for any information, Thanks, Gill Green ...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hi. I am in the process of trying to get an organ back into operation. The original opus number was 856. It was returned back to Aeolian for additions in about 1905, and returned as number 975. After supplying power to the blower motor and manufa...

•After all the years at the present location, DeBence Antique Music World is still sorting items purchased with the DeBence collection 15 years ago! What we just sorted are 12 Wurlitzer Style W Organette rolls. They are in original Wurlitzer boxes which are badly beat up. The rolls all green paper, ...