•To Scotty Greene, I must strongly caution that before ANY attempt at letting the spring power down, any adjustment or fiddling with the governor on this, or any music box that does not readily start up, you should first remove the comb or combs. I cannot overemphasize the importance of this. I see ...

•In response to Scotty Greene's query about A-roll 469 [160610 MMDigest], the roll could be either Automatic A-469 or Clark 469. Both types of rolls had identifiers at the end of the roll. You probably have Automatic A-469, entitled "Special Review Roll", with the following songs. The Missouri Waltz...

•A friend of mine has a Bechstein Green Welte upright. It's tracker bar has a number of extra holes above and below the row of standard holes, which suggests that Tom Steuer's guess about one of the tracker bars on that Steinway may well be correct. I assume that suction was applied to these extra h...

•The Thursford Collection is located at Thursford Green, Near Fakenham, Norfolk. The Grid reference is (Sheet 132) TF 976345. Or 52' 52" North 0' 56" East. The nearest mainline railway stations are quite a long way off at King's Lynn or Norwich. The nearest branch railway station is on the North Nor...

•By 1915 Wurlitzer was using its characteristic green paper in making band organ rolls. Roll 6516, datable to 1915, just passed through my hands on its way back to its owner, Bill Black. It is a typical green-paper roll, once you get beyond the aged and browned paper of its first few windings. Q. Da...

•Concerning the Welte Mignon (Red or Green rolls) CD records today, what is possible to be found on the market? With music editors? Through mechanical music associations? Through music departments in universities (for example, in Freiburg, Germany)? Thank you for your answer. Best regards from Mirec...

•The story about converting a T-98 "Green" Welte piano to play "Red" Welte rolls upset me terribly. It reminded me of a posting that someone made asking peoples opinion of removing an Ampico mechanism from a Mason and Hamlin grand to install it in a Yamaha grand. (November 2001). Here, with the Welt...

•For sale: Beautiful Niendorf-Welte (Welte green, T98, built in 1924) grand piano. It is in a very good original condition. The Welte mechanism works, however a renovation would surely be worthwhile. The piano itself is in a unique condition as well: the soundboard and pinblock as well as the frame ...

•If you don't like green Velcro on your rolls, the big hardware stores sell packs of Velcro strips for wrapping around bundles of wires/cables and extension cords. I found a pack of 30 gray/black ones in the wire aisle, on one of those little racks that hang on the big supports. Bill Mackin ...

•Pratt Reed had a big green house atop their factory for sun-bleaching ivory, which somehow seems far preferable to using chemicals. Tom Binnall

•Peter Braun July/1945 Month/Year Greenwich (Sydney), 2065 City/Postcode NSW Australia. State/Country 47.5 Guess

•I would like to address Larry Greenfield's question about whether or not discussing his project (the Paillard with 31 cylinders) is an appropriate subject for the MMD. After some initial disappointment that he wasn't talking about some exotic automobile, (okay, maybe not appropriate) I became inter...

•Thanks to Jack Kane and Larry Greenfield for suggestions regarding a source of discs for my Kalliope Music Box. Renaissance Discs has twenty discs available in the 52 cm (20-1/2") size. They advised that they have reproduction discs available for many different disc music boxes, including a number ...

•This is a response to Scotty Greene whose music box will not play. I cannot emphasize enough the value of removing the comb on a cylinder box before letting the spring down or doing anything to the movement while it is wound in a condition that is virtually unknown. The comb is pinned to the bed pl...

•I would also add to Scotty Greene's posting, "Hear! Hear!" When I became the curator of the Lott Home museum, one of the things I had to deal with were the many "legends" surrounding the family that lived there. This was most difficult, as some of the legends were deeply rooted into the community's...

I believe the ususal test-rolls for Welte -green and -red are common to you, but I know there are some special test-rolls, only given to approved "Welte-technichians". I know one of this rolls and wouldt be interested if one still survived in America. Gerhard Dangel-Reese

Michel Goffin wrote: > The cylinder is totally dead rusted (green, actually) and my > intention is to transform it into a lamp stand. You have _got_ to be kidding ! If the brass has been completely consumed by corrosion then it can't be shined up at all, and if it can shined up, then the cylinder ca...

•If you need to repair a roll with green paper (or indeed any other shade of paper) you might like to consider the following. At the end of the roll, beyond the final playing notes and rewind hole, is often quite a bit of blank paper. On some rolls there is only a few inches but others might have as...

•A friend of ours has an upright Bechstein with a "Green" Welte player and wishes to change the instrument so that it will play both Green- and Red Welte rolls. I know that this has been done in a few pianos in the past and we seek technical suggestions and also contacts to beg, borrow, or buy the n...

•For sale, free: Welte green roll pneumatic stack, pump, pump cabinet, and expression pneumatics for grand-piano system are offered at no charge. Interested party must arrange pick up at my home in Palos Verdes, California, or I will deliver parts to a crater/packer within a 15 mile radius of Los An...