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| 2007.01.10.04 |
Music Roll Perforator Control Program
from Spencer Chase •Hello, I started a perforator a while ago that is similar to the MIDster but was intended to hold several punches for different formats or to speed the perforating process by limiting the carriage travel. I never finished it. I have offered the "as is" unit to a friend who intends to finish it. I h... |
| 2012.09.07.04 |
Perforator Control System Program
from Spencer Chase •I am considering a winter project of developing a perforator control system for a simple roll perforator similar to the Midster. It will be based on the popular Arduino microcontroller system. Actually, it will use the chipkit Uno which is a faster and better controller, only because I have more ex... |
| 2016.03.28.02 |
MIDI Files for John Smith Senior 20
from Wallace Venable •Robert Lesko said [160326 MMDigest]: "I am looking for MIDI files to punch rolls with my MIDster Punch for my John Smith Senior 20." See http://www.wallace-venable.name/mechanical-music/20note_MIDI.htm & http://www.wallace-venable.name/mechanical-music/MIDI_File_Access.html Wallace Venable ... |
| 2001.08.02.03 |
Self-Punched Organ Rolls
from Mike Knudsen •Ingest 01.08.01 Howard Wyman wrote: > I have used the "Midiboek" program to create templates for the book > music, but I need a method to do the actual punching. I plan to > eventually build the Midster Punch designed by Bob Essex but in the > meantime I would like to make a couple of books. Does a... |
| 2001.08.02.04 |
Self-Punched Organ Rolls
from Bob Essex •I have been following the thread started by John W. Miller in MMD 010723 and have waited patiently for some mention of the MIDster Punch system which punches Raffin 20 and 31 note music direct from MIDI files. I felt sure that among the great many punch builders who have bought the system there mus... |
| 2006.10.26.07 |
Music Roll Perforator Control Program
from John Farmer •I would also like to build a "universal" punching machine, mostly for organettes (of which there are many different formats). My idea was to create a "MIDster" type machine, but with interchangeable punch/die sets. It seemed to me this would create a much more versatile machine, whilst keeping the ... |
| 2007.02.07.01 |
Wagner Mello's Busker Organ & Perforator
from Wagner Mello •Wallace Venable said [070202 MMDigest]: > That is also a good looking punch. Is it based on the MIDster design? Thank you. The punch is based on the homebuilt CNC machines for woodworking. I made one of those CNC routers some years ago. The machine as shown on the web page is not yet complete. You ... |
| 2011.12.03.09 |
Piano Roll Punching Machine
from Bob Essex •Paul Bell here in UK has built a superb computer-controlled machine to punch piano rolls, based on my MIDster Punch plans and software. It uses an old X-Y plotter. A video of it can be seen on my website: http://bobessex.co.uk . Although several people before Paul have made MIDster piano roll punch... |
| 2000.11.07.11 |
DOS Program Changes MIDI Note Numbers
from Craig Johnson •In response to the second problem outlined in Craig Smith's post in 00.11.06 MMD, 'Recording And Processing Organ Data with Cakewalk', namely software that would change MIDI note values based on a conversion table, I have a recommendation. I have been using a little DOS program from Guenter Nagler ... |
| 2001.01.29.07 |
Music Media Prices
from Kevin McElhone •I am pleased to see my comments about street organ music roll prices have opened good discussion on MMD. I hope that more people will buy organs, and even better, more people will take them out to play to others. I hope more music gets sold; how cheap would rolls be if a MIDster punch was made with... |
| 2001.01.30.07 |
Stepper Motor Circuits
from Spencer Chase •I thought that people stopped using series resistors with stepper motors years ago as the chopper drivers became cheap. The problem with using too high a voltage with steppers is that they will overheat when in a locked position for an extended period. The modern solution is to use a pulse width mo... |
| 2001.08.01.01 |
Self-Punched Organ Rolls
from Howard Wyman •There has been some discussion lately on the subject of punching your own rolls or books for organs. This is something I am planning to do in the near future, however I am not sure how to do the actual punching of the holes. I have used the "Midiboek" program to create templates for the book music... |
| 2001.12.31.01 |
Videotape "Organ Grinding In The UK"
from Bob Essex •In Vincent Morgan's comments about organ grinders in New York City he mentioned both John Smith and Castlewood organs. This prompts me to reply with some more detail. I have recently received a videotape entitled "Organ Grinding In The UK" which lasts for 48 minutes and is published by Burl F. Updy... |
| 2003.04.21.05 |
Using Cakewalk to Adapt Music for Street Organ
from Bob Essex •Whoops! Sorry, Ingmar Krause! Didn't mean to sound too stuffy, but I appreciated the humour and the put-down. Perhaps I could amplify the point I made when I said "You don't necessarily need to be a musician but you do need a basic understanding of the structure of music scales and how they transpo... |
| 2006.09.01.01 |
Great Dorset Steam Fair & Thanks to MMD
from Mark Williamson •Greetings from sometimes sunny Britain! I'll shortly be heading out for my third day at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. Wow! I'll even say it backwards: Wow! My friend and mentor, Neil Davidge, was certainly correct when he said that I would need (at least) two full days to see the fair and that three... |
| 2007.02.02.05 |
Wagner Mello's Busker Organ
from Wallace Venable •Wagner Mello said: > I have just finished the construction of my Busker Organ, based on > John Smith's plan: http://members.cox.net/wmbusker/Busker.shtml Great job! With that finish it sure doesn't look like a homebuilt Smith organ -- but it does sound like one! Hope to see it live at a COAA or MBS... |
| 2008.02.28.04 |
Piano Roll Copying Service
from Victor Cooke •-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMDigest -- I have many damaged rolls that I would like to reproduce. According to everything that I have seen it would cost me as much, if not more, to buy a new roll, if QRS has it, as it would to have it reproduced. I am looking for design blueprints... |
| 2012.06.12.02 |
Seek 88-note Piano Roll Perforator
from Nick Vasallo •Hello friends, So I finally got a pianola, it's a lovely 1960's Janssen kept in immaculate condition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USVJflSiRMU I purchased this so I can write music on it, but I have no way of punching holes. I've already bought Bob Essex's MIDster plans (on their way) but am havi... |
| 2012.12.26.01 |
Building a Music Roll Perforator
from David Greene •In addition to the MIDI player project, I'd like to take a stab at building a perforator. What type of punch do readers recommend? I'm talking about the piece that actually physically perforates the paper. David Greene [ MMDigest articles about music roll perforators are indexed at [ http://www.mmd... |
| 2015.01.22.03 |
Repairing Piano Rolls Using MIDI Files
from Spencer Chase •I wrote a program to run a single-hole perforator similar to the MIDdster. I never finished the perforator but I did get pretty far along with the program. For verification of the hole placement file, it prints to a text file. It has been years since I looked at the program and I don't remember wha... |
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