•Hi Group, Does anyone have or know of a xylophone for sale for a Coinola nickelodeon? Jack M. Conway, Los Angeles, California, USA

•Hi Group, In the MMD 03.02.24.11 I asked for help in finding a xylophone for a Coinola coin piano. I received two replies, one for a complete unit and one for a reproduction kit unit. About that time we ran into a major problem with the piano. Recently I was ready for the xylophone but my computer ...

•I would like to thank all of those that helped me move my balls. I was able to sell out of the 7/8-inch rosewood balls and I have no more to sell. Thanks again to those who helped. Don Teach Shreveport, Louisiana

•I would like to comment on the terms used to describe certain percussion instruments in "Xylophone Problem" in 040525 MMDigest: * A _xylophone_ is a percussion instrument made of wood bars. Its big brother, generally voiced much deeper, is called a _marimba._ * A _glockenspiel_ is a similar type in...

•[ cmorgan wrote in 040521 MMDigest: >> I just purchased a nickelodeon with a metal xylophone in it. >> When it goes to play the notes on the xylophone, instead of the >> ball striking it once and then letting the sound resonate, the >> ball strikes it many times very rapidly in succession. The answ...

•Now they've done it. Somebody at church just gave me a set of rosewood xylophone bars, and now I need a set of repeaters for it. Unghh, another project. Is there a set of old beaters floating around out there, that need a rebuild, or should I bite the bullet and start building them myself? I'm weig...

•I recently have seen a photo of a cabinet model L Seeburg that had, along with the piano and mandolin, a xylophone. Does anyone know if this was something originally available from Seeburg when new? Or was this possibly added on in more recent times? I am considering adding a xylophone to my Seebur...

•I have never seen or heard of a factory-made Seeburg Style L with a xylophone. There are two model "L's". The small cabinet piano that many people refer to as an "L" is often referenced as a Seeburg Junior by some collectors or as a "Lilliputian". The other "L" is the large piano with pipes and a k...

•Most xylophones have the tuning pitch stamped on the "A" pitched bar, for example A=435 which is stamped into the wood. If it is not stamped anywhere, a strobe tuner with an adjustable pitch control can be used to determine exactly where the xylophone is in pitch. Check carefully as it may not be p...

•[ Shawn Quigley wrote in 091001 MMDigest: > I'm looking for plans for a pneumatic xylophone or glockenspiel > for a nickelodeon I am building to use with an 'A' roll. Hello, Here is something in French about your project: http://www.victorseraphine.com/xylomidi.htm Good luck! Philippe Cichon Rosny-...

•I need a complete xylophone, in any condition, for a Nelson-Wiggen Casino-X cabinet piano. My Nelson-Wiggen Casino-X is from around 1925 and has the spool box in the bottom with the pump, so I am looking for a complete xylophone that will fit into the top above the stack. I have 27 outlets for the ...

•I am planning to restore an early 1920s Seeburg Model E that is missing the xylophone and I would like to add one. It does not need to be an exact replacement. The options I have seem to be: 1. purchase a new one from Ragtime West (very costly); 2. buy an old unit and rebuild it; 3. buy a marimba o...

S.K. Goodman asked, in regard to adding a xylophone to an 88 note pedal player: >1) How is "25% vacuum loss" arrived at? Well, 24-30 notes of a xylophone represent about 30% of the total number of playing notes in an 88 note player (actually only 82 notes were usually cut). On the other hand, the pe...

In a message dated 96-12-01 04:33:58 EST, Craig Brougher writes: > > I've heard of it, but never seen one. Maybe somebody on this page knows > more about them. On the other hand, the reed organ only requires an > inch or two of vacuum pressure, maybe a little more or less depending > on the reed, so...

•Once again I have discovered a valuable article deep down in my files, in Mecanix Illustrated (their spelling not mine -- cutesy, no? And then they complain that our kids can't spell!). Many years ago, in the 1950's, while I was in high school, this magazine ran a how-to article on how to build a M...

•For Carl Kehret, you might look around your neighborhood. I had a mulberry tree next to my driveway that we took down and I found it to make good xylophone material. In fact, I used it to make two of them, and though that was more than sixteen years ago, they were still playing well a couple of yea...

•I have found two basic designs of xylophones used in automated instruments. Most American instruments have xylophones whose bars have a flat top surface, slightly rounded edges, and a "curved cut" on the underside of the bar. This serves to flatten the pitch and create more sustained rounded tone i...

•The short answer to the question about why the center of a xylophone bar is scooped out is that this increases the volume and resonance of the bar while decreasing the pitch. If, for example, the center section of a bar is one-half the overall thickness, then its pitch will be an octave lower than ...

•Robbie, Didn't we discuss this "metal xylophone" oxymoron six or seven months ago? If we mean Bells, Glockenspiel, Chrysoglot, or whatever, we should say so. Hal Davis [ Xylo+phone = wood sound. Glocken+spiel = clock playing. [ Chryso+glot = golden tongue. Xylophone is the only word [ in this list ...

•Hello MMD! Due to problems with our mail server I have not been able to answer anything in the last few days (Mail bomb!!!). The term "Glockenspiel" is used by German organ-builders for a metallophone. Glockenspiel means literally "play of bells", although bells were seldom used to make the sound. ...