•[ Ref 011231 MMDigest ] Hello MMD readers, If you checked-out our illustrated "Monmouth, Maine" page, launched a few days ago, the two pictures of the window display featuring player rolls were admittedly fuzzy, to say the least, due to difficult photographic conditions. The lady who asked me to pa...

•Hi all, Just an update on the modernisation of our music cutting. We're now in stages two and three of our updates with the completion of two more dedicated automatic punching machines to now offer drastically reduced price and delivery of standard "Keyed" music and also keyless for standard Ruth s...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Is there anybody who can explain me if a punching machine works with a pneumatic drive? Thank you, Rosemarie Brieger Berlin

•No need to go to Europe for these punches mentioned in May 14th 2009 MMDigest. They are available at Lee Valley Tools, part no. 33Y01.01, Set of 15 Punches: http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=32189&cat=1,43456,43461 Best regards, Jurgen Goering Piano Forte Supply

•There's nothing like having a Leabarjan punching machine for editing. I got some recuts that had holes so tiny they wouldn't register. Now they do...! Bruce Grimes

•A colleague was visiting a National Trust property at Speke Hall near Liverpool, UK, and he photographed some unusual paper music loops but nobody could tell him what instrument they came from. Can anyone identify what instrument these music loops were for: http://www.fops.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f...

•The mystery of punched paper music loops in England has been solved. I have put together (very quickly) a YouTube video on the 14-note organette. You can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4YMx2lefb0 Leslie Hoffman

•Hi Group, Kevin A. McElhone's book, "The Organette Book", on pages 269-70, lists five organettes that play cardboard loop music: Dolcine, La Coquette - 16-note two part card loop Manopan 24-note, loop 3-15/16" wide Manopan 39-note, loop format Non-Plus Ultra 23-note, card loop Orchestrionette 26 no...

•[ George Houghton wrote in 100810 MMDigest: > Can anyone identify what instrument these music loops were for: > http://www.fops.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=585#p585 The photos show music bands for the Celestina or English Seraphone. Most of these types of organette play loops in addition to the m...

•The paper bands pictured are for a Seraphone, made in England, and playing the same format as the popular Celestina. An endless band adapter allowed it to play these "loops" as well as rolls. A tune list may be found in the The Organette Music Repository at: http://music.organettes.com/instruments/...

•Many thanks to everyone who posted regarding the music loops. Mystery now solved thanks to MMD. The next task is to search Speke Hall to find the instrument to play them. There is also an Imhof and Mukle barrel organ at Speke Hall that was restored in the 1990s, but no other information on its hist...

•You can now hear arranger Andrew Park's arrangement of William Rimmer's march "Punchinello" for the Wurlitzer 165 band organ by going to my website http://wurlitzer-rolls.com/ and finding the entry for roll 6861, where "Punchinello" is tune 1. Click on the link there to play the recording. William ...

•Chris Doe from the UK now controls the MIDI files of music rolls created by the late Stephen Simpson. He learned that I was interested in Stephen's music from a posting I did to MMD: https://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/202210/2022.10.28.01.html I think Stephen created some of the most innovat...

•Several years ago, I read somewhere that on some Mason and Hamlin Ampico A's there was a heavy paper punching over the opening of every note's unit block valve. Is there anyone who knows about these and can provide me with more information about them, in particular the diameter of the opening of th...

I also thought about making a cheap personal punch that would produce single copies perhaps very slowly. I considered the recycling of and old computer printer but soon realized the chance of success was rather slim. Roll punching has to be done quite accurately to be worthwhile and punching holes i...

Spencer Chase wrote in Digest 961128 that he is designing a roll scanning and punching system, and that he plans to punch the new rolls "at the same step size as the originals to maximize speed and accuracy." In Digest 961204 Spencer wrote: > I would like to scan rolls with a degree of precision tha...

•Hi Sam, Most good hardware stores carry arch punches but if you can't locate them locally, American Piano Supply sells them. They have a wide variety of sizes. They also sell rotary punches. Another place to check locally would be a good saddle shop (for horses). Musically, John A. Tuttle ...

•Re: Digest.98.02.05 We are an Osborn punch distributor. These are made in USA and are very good. Don Teach Shreveport Music Co 1610 E. Bert Kouns Shreveport, LA 71105 dat-smc@juno.com

•I took a Yankee screwdriver and turned and drilled one of the Philips bits into a punch. It has a hole out the side for the chad to exit. The drive has a nice finger grip at the "punch" end to guide the device, and pressing lightly will rotate the cutting edge and create a very clean hole with mini...

•Player Piano used to sell a machinist punch that had been modified to punch rolls. It was made very well by the guy in Pond Eddy New York that made all kinds of parts for Ampico Duo Art's etc. Don Teach