•[ Ref. Cassidy Juraniec in 220109 MMDigest ] Cassidy, Greetings from The Bronx! (Well, actually, 3+ hrs north of it, just for the extended holidays). In answer to your quandary, the title of the first song on the video is "Bye, Bye, Blackbird", albeit being played on an organ that was gasping for b...

•[ Ref. Wallace Venable in 230401 MMDigest ] Regarding "AMI formats" and the Wurlitzer 125 band organ, Mr. Venable is correct, not only is "the" AMI format not published, there are several "AMI formats"! The original AMI format was for the "Green Book" project to digitize European fair organ and caf...

[ Editor's Note: The message which follows appears to be a forward [ from the Pipe Organ mailing list... From: "RICHARD J. WEISENBERGER" ¶ Through: piporg-l@smtibm.albany.com¶ Subject: Tonal Aspects NOT Captured by Digital Sampling Although I maintain that the general public could be fooled by someo...

I have waited a bit to forward this lest it prove to be merely a brainfahrt of the illustrious historian and sometime spoof-spinner, Stephen Bicknell, but he claims it is not without documentable sources. --Karl P. ---------- Forwarded message ----------¶ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:50:17 +0100¶ From: ...

In a message dated 96-11-10 04:57:26 EST, you write: > > Subject: Street Organs & Draaiorgels > > Jan, can you tell us more about the differences between the English > Fairground Organ, the Draaiorgel of Holland, the Drehorgel of Germany, > and the Military Band Organ such as Wurlitzer sold in Ameri...

Hello all! Some years ago I had the opportunity to peek behind the large Band Organ at Tilden Park and take some pictures of the inside pipe ranks, valve chest, etc. This was difficult, since there is very little room between the wall and the back of the organ. I held the camera above my head and po...

Doug Rhodes wrote in Digest 961210 about Canada tuning locomotive horns in a minor key and the US tuning them in a major key. I forwarded his comments to the Big Trains mailing list, and it prompted quite a bit of discussion, including the following note. It just goes to show, that if there is an in...

•I had an E-mail concerning the operation of original nickelodeons. Seeburg, for example, had small pneumatics operate a pallet valve for their pipes. Each pipe had a pneumatic and pallet valve. The pneumatic is basically teed into the vacuum that operates each playing note. The pressure to each set...

•This past weekend was my first band organ rally, sponsored by the Mid-America Chapter of the MBSI. Sandusky is an ideal town for such an event, having a beautifully landscaped grass park extending for three blocks right in the downtown business section, about two blocks from Lake Erie's cooling bre...

•In response to Marc Elbasoni's letter about band organs being made of theatre organ pipes, I can only say I hope I never see one. I have seen band organs, both original and homemade, with church organ pipes as well. It's just amazing how nice a pipe can sound when it's being blown with 8 inches of ...

•One of the best references for pipe organs is the well-written "The Art of Organ Building" by Audsley (if my memory serves me). It is in two volumes, and many libraries have it. It explains pipe scales, intonation, materials and building techniques. It was written about 1912 or so, but much of it i...

•The descriptions of "Wellington's Victory" in the last two MMDs were very interesting to me since less than a month ago I bought a new CD called Symphonic Battle Scenes, featuring that very piece. The music is performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lorin Maazel. The perfor...

•The Military Band Organ in France by Francoise Dussour The military band organs were built between the end of XIX and the beginning of the XX century, (ca 1870-1905). It was a marvelous music instrument for parks, fairs and concert-halls. The very specific music repertoire at this date was waltz an...

•I would love to see a picture of your organ. There is not much inform- ation around on Artizans that I have found. We have an A-2 which also has been converted to play Wurlitzer 125 rolls. Ron Bopp's book, The American Carousel Organ, is very good for basic identification. From the pictures you sen...

•Dear MMD Readers, Please allow me to present a list of mechanical musical instruments that I am presently selling: Mills Double Violano-Virtuoso. Completely restored and refinished. Looks and sounds beautiful. $75,000. Mills Single Violano-Virtuoso. Unrestored, plays well. $31,000. Seeburg E with x...

•Dear MMDians, Well, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm gonna build a band organ. I realize just how big a project it is, but I just can't stand it anymore. I need one. With the help of a friend of mine from Silicon Valley, I hope to throw together a decent sounding organ that has enough pipes to...

•Hello, Walter -- My name is Tom Detweiler, an MMD member for about a year now. I understand from your post that you have one of the Mortier band organs, and when you mentioned G.W. McKinnon I got very interested. Do you by any chance own the huge Mortier that the McKinnon people used to call the "T...

•Ed Copeland wrote that he would like to get the listing of what instru- ments are playing what songs. It so happens that I just got a record at an estate sale titled "Nickel Music -- The Sound of the Nickelodeons at Paul Eakins' Gay Nineties Village", which was in Sikeston, Missouri. The only sligh...

•Intriguing -- perhaps a fabrication? Karl Petersen Washington, Illinois ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jlspeller@stlnet.com (John Speller)(fwd) To: ORGUE-L@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:18:04 +0000 Subject: Pinchbeck Organ In the process of moving the office in my house...

•Bill Chapman wrote: > I recently saw some reed pipes, probably Vox, that had graduated > boots for resonators, as opposed to the tops of the pipe. ... The > longest bass was about 3 feet and the shortest was about 8 inches. > The tops are almost all the same size. They were made by Wicks ... These ...