•Hope you can help with this. A friend has a Tangley Calliaphone which uses the Clark 'A' roll. Problem is trying to find 'A' rolls to play on it. Through a contact supplied by this newsletter last year, we learned that the Minor Co. which made his calliope sold their roll reproducing equipment to a...

•Dennis Womack asked about A Rolls for a Miner Calliope. Dave did sell the perforator to Don Rand, but I believe that Don cuts the rolls for Miner Manufacturing Company. I just got the Miner 1998 A, G, and 4X catalog a few weeks ago. It lists two of the rolls you asked about. A-102X and A-1521 are b...

•August 22, 1998 Dear sir or madam: I am writing this letter to you and to your organization to see if you have any information on a steam-operated organ that was in a motion picture called "The Mighty Steam Calliope". I saw this film when I was living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada prior to October 19...

•I have recently run across a manifold, valves and whistles to build a steam calliope. The original boiler has long since been discarded, but it would be nice to find another to replace it. Reportedly, the instrument I have was originally fed by a Lookout Boiler from Chattanooga, TN. If anyone knows...

•Several months ago I submitted a note about a calliope which I played in local parades. The instrument belonged to a local bakery; I have located the calliope stored locally. The owner of the calliope forwarded the following information: The New Tone Air Calliope, National Calliope Corporation, Ame...

•Does anyone out there know of any legitimate plans for [building] a steam calliope. I was truly amazed after seeing and hearing the calliope on the Steamboat Natchez in New Orleans. Joe Isom Buffalo, New York [ A how-to-make-it booklet was published in the 1980s by Davis Calliope [ Works. A photo o...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Our family is looking for a new home for our forced air calliope housed in an ornate circus wagon. This precious piece of history was a passion of our late parents. After reading several articles in MMD we thought you could help us out. The or...

•I am going to put my A-43 Tangley Calliope in the Texas State Fair Parade. I could use some good circus or carnival music if anyone has a few they want to part with. See my home made cart on site below. Don Bryant, Bryant's Antique Players since 1975 4819 Stallcup Dr. Mesquite,Tx 75150 http://www.b...

•Hello, My name is Jack Steiner, I live in Ohio. I am just your average citizen and woodworker but my son is a musician who wants a calliope. I can't find one that we could even begin to afford. So if I could find plans I would attempt to build one that would probably be powered by air. I need detai...

•Jack, I built my own version of a Wurlitzer Caliola about 1975. My version has wooden flute pipes voiced on 3.5 inches of water so that it is quiet enough to play indoors. The conventional calliope uses a much higher pressure so that they are too loud to play inside. The pipes came from a trashed c...

•Jody- Re: MMDigest 99.09.21 on the "wood whistle" calliope Its not Carl Freiling--- Its Paul Freiling--- Carl is a distant cousin who can hardly read and write!!!! Otherwise Ok. I've been getting requests for plans, but only have the details on the pipes, that I put together for John Hovencak in Wi...

•Hi, I need a pressure gauge for a National Calliope. I have one for a Tangley, for trade, if anyone can help. Thanks. Mike Kitner

•Jim Wells R.I.P. I share the sorrow at learning of the death of Jim Wells. This was a true-blue, All-American character! I ran into Jim a number of times at various Musical Box Society (MBS) meetings, car or truck club get-togethers, the annual Hershey car meet, etc. He was indeed one of a kind. I ...

•Hi everybody. I am new to MMD, but know already that if there is a question about anything musical, I can find an answer here. I am looking for a source of molded musical notes, staffs, etc., to be used to decorate the outside of my trailer that houses my calliope. I play it myself, but with it in ...

•Over the past week I've been refurbishing a reproduction Tangley player calliope in which all the rubber cloth had gone hard. So here was a chance to play all the A-rolls I had accumulated over the past few years. I found that most of the pop-tunes from the 1920s and '30s didn't carry over very wel...

•I have a forty-note steam calliope hooked up with MIDI and I am looking for a web site or people to exchange files with, especially patriotic tunes. I have over 300 tunes now but some of them do not sound so good even after slowing them down in Cakewalk. Any ideas? Thank You Jonathan King ...

•Attention Tangley owners! Our friend Ed Gaida has just recut an absolutely terrific 10-tune march roll, A-863. 10 tunes. This is one of the best march rolls for the Tangley machine I've heard. The roll is high quality as are the arrangements. You will not be disappointed when you hear this roll on ...

•My shop woodworker is building himself a calliope. I have restored a couple of originals, but this is his baby. One that I restored used an A-roll to play. I thought about this, but my guy wants to have some additions: bass drum, snare drum, cymbal, siren, and a few other things including some solo...

•I am looking hire a mobile automated musical instrument to be used for promoting the upcoming off-Broadway show, Carnival Knowledge. Please respond to coneyislandtodd@aol.com.geentroep. Remove the ".geentroep" from the email address when you reply. Thanks. Todd Robbins

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- What should the end spacing be between the paper roll and the end plate? El Kahir Shrine has a Tangley calliope I'm trying to learn to operate. Harry Hograbe Cedar Rapids, Iowa hograbe@aol.com.geentroep [delete ".geentrop to reply] [ It's not cle...