•Back in the 1960s when I supervised the rebuilding of many player grands in my shop we purchased from Schaff a thermostatically controlled hide glue pot and it was an excellent device: turn it on in the morning, shut it off at quitting time. After a few minutes warm-up your hide glue would be ready...

•I have a large number of MIDI files and am looking for some inexpensive software that will play them in sequence or random play. It should be able to drive my Portman PC/P MIDI device that is connected to my laptop. These are organ files, not Duo-Art files. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks ...

•Gerry Bay wrote: > I have a large number of MIDI files and am looking for some > inexpensive software that will play them in sequence or random play. > It should be able to drive my Portman PC/P MIDI device that is > connected to my laptop. These are organ files, not Duo-Art files. > Does anyone ha...

•Greetings Readers, In response to Nicholas' questioning of my opinion and motivations, I would like to start by stating that I consider the Duo-Art system (mechanical device together with its software) to be one of the finest advancements of the previous century. There have always been talented ind...

•For sale: Welte literature: Item no. 1 -- Tubing charts for Welte Mignon grand player action and upright player action, and also with the Welte Mignon (Licensee) expression device. This is a hi-quality reprint from Vestal Press of 35 years ago. Item no. 2 -- a large blue print of the Welte Mignon g...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I am writing for information on commercial grade music box mechanisms. We are in the early design phase of a product which will require a wind-up mechanical music device. Would you let me know the major world sources for high quality music box me...

•Hi there, Any idea where I can get a converter here in North America, preferably in Canada, to have the standard 110 VAC converted to 230 VAC for a European electric device? While most modern adapters are likely to accept both currents, this device seems not to, so I have to feed it the 230V! Who c...

•Ingmar Krause wrote: > Hi there, Any idea where I can get a converter here in North America, > preferably in Canada, to have the standard 110 VAC converted to 230 VAC > for a European electric device? First, your local electronics shop should have a transformer for that purpose. Just check the watt...

•Greetings, There are sure to be modern solutions and maybe even ones that are not terribly expensive, but for running even a 1/4 HP motor, you do need a pretty big device to handle the inductive load and the starting kick. Fortunately, mechanical music devices usually start under light load before ...

•The 80-Ton Behemoth in Leipzig Here's the story: When Melissa Reaves, who translated the text of "Im Aufnahmesalon Hupfeld" into English, presented her first document, containing the mention of an 80-ton device for reproducing roll recordings, I questioned it and made the correction at the time, wi...

•Dear Group, I hope someone here might have some knowledge about the latest roll playing (or maybe roll eating) machine I just acquired; this is a very odd device indeed! This so appearing "Vorsetzer" is a _78_-note pneumatic player unit, built probably circa 1955 or so, merely judging by its initia...

•[ In 1904, die Zeitschrift fuer Instrumentenbau wrote about the [ Aeolian Co. apparatus displayed at the Autumn Trade Fair: [ [ "most wonderful device, whose ... mechanism allows it to record [ pieces played on the piano with exact tempo, interpretation and [ ornamentation, and soon after to transf...

•Dave Saul said in 030910 MMDigest: > The carbon microphone element is clean, predictable, and capable of > very fast response. Placing such a device, or a simple variant of it, > under each key or at some critical point in a piano action, could, in > principle, enable the measurement of intensities...

•With all due respect to Dr. Peetz, there are some statements in his posting about the Welte-Mignon recording system that I want to comment upon. I do not believe that any springs were used in the recording system carbon rod device. Adding a spring to the attachment point of the carbon rod to the pi...

•Dave Saul suggested, in 031003 MMDigest, "Suppose a pressure sensor were interposed between key and balance rail ..." I suggest a carbon pile resistance-pressure transducer placed between the balance rail and the keyframe. This ancient device, I understand, is still used in the foot pedal that cont...

•Greetings, I have one of the Moog PianoBars that I bought with the goal of recording the behavior characteristics of various reproducing pianos. Although it appears to be a well-made device and may be well suited to the recording of hand played piano, there are a couple of reasons that it might not...

•List, I will be acquiring an antique (ca. 1917) Story & Clark player with no tracking device, so I am searching for a tracking system that will work pneumatically (not finger type) with tracker bar and tracking pneumatics. If you wish, you can email me directly. Thanks Duaine Hechler St. Louis, Mis...

•If you are building a new Duo-Art then you would have to put in new connectors of the grounded type. You would have to get the device to pass Underwriters Labs testing. Modern codes require three conductor wire and plugs with ground connection. It would be ridiculous to go about changing the whole ...

•I was once told that the difference between a carousel and a merry-go-round is that a carousel is all horses and it came from the device that was used to train knights for jousting. A merry-go-round has other animals. I don't think this is true, though, as I have seen many rides labeled as one fit ...

•With reference to Brian Smith's posting, can someone please explain to me how the Disneyland Welte orchestrion can be said to be operating whilst being played by means of a 'touch screen' so that a particular tune can be requested? The use of such a device implies that a roll is not being used and ...