•I am starting to make the trumpet pipes for a MIDI-controlled version of a Wurlitzer 104/105 band organ. I have metal working tools and I plan to make the shallots and reeds following the dimensions used by Wurlitzer. It seems to me that if I could test and trim the wooden resonator to the correct ...

•I wish I could be more specific, but a reed with a shallot or a free reed produces anything but a sine wave. In fact, the free reed produces all kinds of harmonics, and the beating reed, when it snaps closed, gives sharp peaks. I cannot recall seeing a reed pipe without some kind of adjustment to t...

•Bill, I believe Burl said a square wave and not a sine wave. Square waves have very high harmonic content. Sharp edges in the time domain always mean high frequency content in the frequency domain. I think his idea is a valid one. It might be a bit of overkill, but I bet it would work. Benjamin Haa...

•I must profess to never having built a band organ but the details of organ pipe design cannot be too different from a regular pipe organ so here is my humble response to the question: When building a reed that is cut exactly to the resonant length it is said to be cut "dead length." But this is not...

•For sale: 13 brass trumpet pipes for sale, including foot reed shallot, tarnished but ready to plug in. I think they are from a Wurly 150, 148 or 125. Price $3500.00 Jon Guy Arnett, Oklahoma

•Well my first topic is the building of a player reed organ. I tried to use Hohner reeds but they were out of tune and take too much air. My plans were to make a pressure box and the control the reeds directly but I don't think this will work well enough to get the reiteration of notes from music ro...

•I am seeking information on a potential source for "Fanfare" or "Clarion" miniature trumpets that would be held by a figure or statue that would grace the front of a band organ or fairground organ. More common for European fairground organs than American band organs, these figures or statues were i...

•Hi Guys, I've emailed to Joe Hilferty about brass trumpets and the vulnerabilities of bees trying to creep into the horns. The result? The trombones and trumpets quit playing until they are cleaned and polished! Have you had any stories about the bees and the brass horns? One time while reading the...

•Most mechanical music instruments that saw use in a public place were subject to considerable abuse. My memory fades but I think I read someplace that trumpet organs in the center of a merry-go-round were used for target practice by youngsters of the day. The idea was to see if you could toss some ...

•Hi, I'm not working into band and fair organs but there is a similar problems with reed pipes in many church organs. The causes are not popcorn but mostly flies, ladybugs looking for places to hibernate in fall, and the occasional bees and other beetles. It is worst if the organ is situated right u...

•Well, my situation wasn't in an automatically played instrument but in our church's Reuter pipe organ. It began having ciphers and non-playing notes, becoming most unreliable. We assumed, based on its age, that the leather pouches, etc. had aged beyond their life-span. However, disassembly led us t...

•Mr. Dewey wrote: "...leaf wasps had invaded the main chest..." That doesn't take long to happen and can be quite dangerous. My team of employees and I went for a two weeks summer vacations break in 1992. The week before we partially installed the two main windchests in an organ I had under construc...

•We have a question that we hope someone can help us answer. The number "294" is stamped into the brass stem of the longest pipe of the rank of Trumpet pipes that came out of the Crystal Palace. Would this indicate that it was the 294th rank of pipes put into Photoplayers? Considering there were onl...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I am seeking the sheet music to "The Trumpeter Of Swaringen." This is in relation to a Wehrle 11 trumpeter clock I have. Thank you, Gene Wooddell

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello -- I am in need of a case to house a 9-pipe Emilian Wehrle Flute clock movement. The cases used for Emilian Wehrle's Trumpeter and Flute clocks are identical, so either would work. This case would accept the triple wind robust movement. She...

•We just purchased a rare coin-operated Wehrle trumpeter clock that also has a music box. I'm wondering if anyone else has run across one of these models? I had heard once of a trumpeter "bank", and perhaps that is what this one was intended to be. Marty Roenigk Eureka Springs, Arkansas http://www.m...

•Hello All -- I am in need of a musical movement for a Black Forest Trumpeter or Flute Clock. I recently purchased a wonderful case for my collection, but the movement is missing. This movement, made by Em. Wehrle, will have a wood air chest and double pumping bellows that mount above a brass plate ...

•Group -- I recently finished the restoration of a Wehrle trumpeter which was shared with the group a few weeks back in a video. I had several emails following asking to see the works in action. I decided to make a short video for all to see. For those that are interested in seeing it visit http://w...

•For sale: I'm selling, to open space for a new addition to the collection, a rare Black Forest trumpeter clock, circa 1890, made by Gordian Hettich of Furtwangen, Germany. Two-horn wall example, 25" high. Fantastic burl on the case. One of the most original trumpeters I have ever seen, from the ori...

•I've been reading with interest the brass reeds for trumpets posts. You might be able to contact an organ supply house like Organ Supply in Erie, Pa., telling them the length of the pipe (8', 4'?), and the note name, the size of the shallot (maybe), and the wind pressure (8"?). They may be able to ...