•Hi All, Have you seen the automated Vorsetzer by the Logos Foundation at http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/playerpiano.html (I saw a reference to this site on the SchoberOrphans group on Yahoo groups.) It has theory, schematics and printed circuit board layouts on the site, and a music com...

•This is in response to Dave Krall's question of who Composed "Just A Memory?", which he has on an Artrio Angelus roll played by Victor Arden. It is also on Imperial 06645, and probably several others. "Just a Memory" has music by Ray Henderson, and words by his frequent partner, Buddy DeSylva, assi...

•As Lewis Carroll said in "The Hunting of the Snark," "What I tell you three times is true." So all we need is a third person to come forward and claim that "Just A Memory" is a waltz, and it will be! One of the problems researchers have to guard against is repeating inaccurate information in print ...

•In a folio titled "Song Hits of the Roaring Twenties...", I found sheet music of "Just A Memory", words by B.G. De Sylva and Lew Brown, music by Ray Henderson, copyright 1927 by Harms, Inc. It is in 4/4 time. Steve Bentley Vancouver, BC

•Robbie remarked in 030227 MMDigest: >[ "Oh, give me a horse, a great big horse, and give me a Stetson, too, >[ and let me Wah-Hoo! Wah-Hoo! Waaah-Hooo!" Sung by the Hoosier >[ Hotshots in the 1930s! "Are you ready, Hezzie?" Fritz Gellerman [ Copyright 1936 by Cliff Friend, according to Matthew Caul...

•Hi All, Can anyone provide some biographical and rollographical information about Lee S. Roberts? I have searched the MMD Archives and the web, and find virtually nothing. Some of my favorite rolls are his opera transcriptions, e.g., "Favorite Strains From The Bohemian Girl", "Pagliacci", "Madame B...

•I looked up the names Basile and De Mascio in the book - S.Godfroid, Bouwers van automatofonen in Vlaanderen. Proeve van catalogus (In: Volksmuziekatelier, Jaarboek V, Provinciaal Trefcentrum Baljuwhuis) [Builders of automatic musical instruments in Flanders; preliminary catalogue, (In: Folk music ...

•Following my initial attempt at trying to help Arthur Nichols with converting tunes for a street organ, both Ingmar Krause and Harald Mueller expressed their wish to have a go at 'impossible tunes', so here is the one I have had particular problems with. Just for fun I wanted to convert the "Star W...

•Hi group, A friend of the family, who knew I collected mechanical music, found a book, "The Pianolist's Library Of Music Rolls," in a used book store and gave to me as a gift. Many people in MMD have a great deal of knowledge about The Aeolian Company and wonder if anyone else has seen this book? I...

•Doug Anderson wrote, "... I would like to duplicate it or get another copy before it's too far gone." Hi there Doug, As luck would have it, I have two copies of this in my collection. Although Rowley is the pianist, they're both on the Supertone label (who Standard, who produced the Arto rolls, man...

•Wanted: One copy of the following Gay 90's Village record or tape, at reasonable price plus post: "More Gay 90's Village", AFPL 2138 I am ordering other recordings from Chris Carlisle at the Gay 90's Village, Inc., web site, but this title he has not got, so I'm advertising on MMD. I am UK based. T...

•Hello Bob and Sonja, Some years ago Vestal Press reissued the 1919 Inspectors' Instruction Book with the 1920 supplement for the Ampico. Although it doesn't have a complete tubing diagram for your piano it has quite a number of very useful diagrams, including a description of the tubing of the expr...

•Hello once again! Good old Mozart -- he never let me down so far! As another thing on the list of things that I always wanted to do but never did, I can now cross out the arrangement of "Marcia a la turka" by W.A. Mozart, for 20-keyless! Because I mentioned this as one of the pieces that I personal...

•I have a fantastic Ukrainian roll that would be wonderful to recut. It is one of my favorite rolls and I played it in the AMICA pumper contest in Sandusky, Ohio, a number of years ago. Since my computer won't do Cyrillic characters, I had it translated and the title is "Therefore its quiet on the D...

•Hi group, In MMD 030920 Bill Flynt said: > I still have many of the hand-cut drafting board roll originals, > including the Mancini medley (Moon River, Dear Heart, and Days > of Wine and Roses), but I don't know what number was assigned. I have the Harold L. Powell roll and it is assigned roll numb...

•Beware, AOL subscribers! Quite a number of MMD members have web sites which feature music of one kind or another; if they are AOL subscribers this might be of interest. This morning I visited a site to listen to some music files posted by the site owner, an amateur pianist whose playing will never ...

•Yesterday, after more than a year's work, I finished inputting online all of the style 150 band organ rolls made in North Tonawanda, N.Y., from 1913 to the mid-1960's. The last two rolls, 13313 and 13314 threw me -- twelve tunes, no composers, and the strangest, unheard-of titles: 13313: Lazy Latin...

•Dear MMDers, one of Matthew Caulfied's 1960s tunes may be "Popcorn" (one word), written by Gershon Kingsley. I have the sheet music, bought in Berlin, and published by Sikorski, Hamburg, edtn. no. 93316. The music also offers additional information : "Copyright 1969 and 1971 by Bourne Co., New York...

•Thanks, Ian, for the information. I have heard from two others, Dale Wilson and Doug Mauldin, about "Popcorn," and each note adds a little more information. It's odd that none of the other 11 tunes provoked any response, but "Popcorn" did. From what you and the others say, it appears that the two r...

•Sankyo Shoji is "down but not out." Two days ago I mentioned the disappearance of Sankyo's music box and musical movement web site and asked for information about that. Today I received this reply from Taizou Murakami, who went right to the top to find the answer: This morning I called Mr. Inoue, t...