•A friend and I are in the process of acquiring a book punching machine (manual) and we are looking at obtaining software to print MIDI files so that this can then be printed out and stapled to the card board so that a MIDI file can be transferred to play book music operating organs. Any recommendat...

•Happy New Year MMDers! I just went through my first Christmas Holiday with my new turn-of-the-century audio visual experience -- a 1917 Schulz player piano. I had a great time entertaining the family and friends and, as a result, I received numerous gifts of player piano rolls. Some rolls needed re...

•Hi. There is a very good MIDI file editing software program, called "Noteur", especially for music for mechanical music instruments. By defining the scale of your music instrument or using the many available predefined instruments, Noteur shows you which notes will be used by your instrument and wh...

•In response to Terry Bender, I have arranged a couple of rags for my 31-note Raffin. Rags are more difficult than most other music since they often change key. It is not too difficult to transpose music so that it is in a key that fits with the organ's available notes, but it's more difficult if th...

•[ Ref. Dale F. Rowe in 210120 MMDigest ] Hello there Dale, Thanks for your reply to my MMD post. I have never looked into Cakewalk, but have heard varying reviews of the program. I understood it was great for editing MIDI files but that it had some issues with some of the later operating systems. I...

•I am a woodworker who is trying to reproduce a barrel organ that was first built in the 1500s. As mentioned above, I am a woodworker who knows very little about music. I am hoping that someone out there can help me determine the size of the pins and how they should be placed on the barrel (wood pin...

•>> I read your letter this morning in today's MMD. I am very much >> interested in MIDI-fying an orchestrion I am building. But jumping >> into the middle of MIDI conversations without the background >> information I am lacking confuses the issues. Do you have any >> suggestions or web sites, etc...

•[ Howard Jensen wrote in 050112 MMDigest: >> Perhaps the MMD readers could start to put together articles for the >> archives, starting with the basics of MIDI, and touching upon the >> uses of MIDI in the hobby. Also perhaps an instructional article >> explaining how to download MIDI music, and ho...

•In response to John Farmer's inquiries, here is a brief description of the perforator: The machine has three stepper motors, one for each axis. Axis X pulls the paper, Axis Y controls the carriage, and axis Z activates the punch. The Y and Z axis have NEMA 23 motors, axis X a smaller NEMA 17. The c...

•Having completed my part of an installation of a 15-rank Wurlitzer theatre organ, I decided to see if I can make a simple busker organ in a week's time frame. This was prompted by a friend machining for me a John Smith 20-note tracker bar out of solid aluminum. Details of this project are being pos...

•John McClelland wrote: > I'm not familiar with all the Macintosh programs and would like some > ideas from readers regarding a similar program designed for the Mac -- > one that lets me view and edit the MIDI files in a piano roll format. > I don't need fancy stuff and would prefer not to spend a l...

•Years ago, I started to make a perforator to make Wurlitzer Style 165 type music rolls. At the time I was working with web fed printers, that took 'webs' of paper, which is what the rolls of blank paper are called. Punches are available from a company called Ross Punch. This is the simplest item to...

•A simple Leabarjan roll punching and editing machine should not cost too much. Not sure how available these are. I started to make something similar last year. At this time of year, I usually work on getting new music prepared for my 20-note busker organ, so am in the process of cutting rolls. Surp...

•This is my busy time of year, performing at the Dickens Christmas Fair near San Francisco. Most of my scanning efforts are pretty well known, but to recap, I built a scanner with a USB interface based on designs by Richard Stibbons and Spencer Chase. With this I scanned the collection of APP rolls ...

•Spencer Chase said, "This machine looks much more useful [than the Cricut]." I looked at the web pages for the various Graphtec Imaging Products. The CraftROBO is one of that company's cutter/plotter machines, also sometimes known as "vinyl cutters" since they can cut vinyl letters for signs. My on...

•Although I am no great whiz at MIDI, I've done quite a bit of study trying to learn enough to be dangerous. Some good information is at the MIDIbox site at http://www.ucapps.de/ See the MIDIO128 project in particular. It references Willy van der Reijden's article at http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/...

•[ Paul Bell wrote in 160418 MMDigest: > I have read with interest the replies to this subject. In particular > I was interested greatly in the quote from Wallace Venable: > "I found that I could punch faster with my foot-pedal machine than > the computerized punch could". > If that really was the c...

•[ Ref. "18-note Movements For New Song Arrangements", [ by John Grant, in 18.07.30 MMDigest ] I purchased one of these 20-note movements when traveling through Germany -- a very well-built musical movement. The cards are easy to punch as the notes are printed on the supplied cards. The tone is nice...

•David, Greetings from The Bronx (a borough of New York City, New York, USA). Regarding your inquiry about testing MIDI files of organ arrangements, the MIDI program known as Cakewalk has a feature which allows you to create your own organ scaled parameters in the program (the scale files have a .ca...

•Dear people, I'm totally new to the MMD, but a friend of Mike Walter suggested I could post my request here. In fact, I'm trying to produce piano rolls; at first I was thinking about editing MIDI files, read them in a 'piano roll' software (e.g., IntelliScore, Musescore, Chordana) and print before ...