•Hello Everyone, Many thanks go to Matthew Caulfield for identifying the song titles on my recording of Ray Siou's church-pipe band organ. With his kind permission, I'd like to list them here. It turns out that each of the CDs I have recorded contains songs from two different Wurlitzer Style 165 mus...

•Thanks to Bob Billings, Bob Pinsker, Stephen Kent Goodman and Paul Eggert, we have a great number of Charley Straight's hand-played piano roll rags. These have all been returned or acknowledged, in the case of MIDI files (Bob Pinsker) for their help. We still need "Try Me" and "Blue Grass Rag", as ...

•On Nov 18, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Julian Dyer wrote: > A problem from the National Book Network of culling of the Vestal > catalogue is withdrawal of the technical leaflets on reproducing > pianos that were omitted from Reblitz on the grounds that it would > be repetition of the information. Now that t...

•David Levy asks about pictures of Winkel's Componium. There are several pictures in Arthur W J G Ord-Hume's book, "Barrel Organ", published by George Allen & Unwin in 1978 (ISBN 0047890053). I assume these were Arthur's own pictures, so he might still have them. If so, copyright would be with Arthu...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Dear MMD (I can't believe nobody wrote about this) -- I have seen and own a cartoon movie called 'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie'. In the "Bubble Party" scene in middle of the movie, SpongeBob and Patrick in the toilet room make bubble suds from...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I have been mailing Sankyo Shoji for a quote on music movements but have so far received no answer. Does anybody know their telephone number, so I can call them direct? Carlos Sloth SUNTRADE Ltda, Uruguay [ Sankyo has undergone some reorganizatio...

•I've been following the MMD paper thread with interest and would like to throw this in. I have plenty of vintage rolls, and their condition and playability vary greatly. Sometimes I've even sworn I wouldn't buy any more "old rolls" and would just stick to buying recuts. Fortunately, that's been one...

•Hi Group, Duaine Hechler asked about the Ampico Version Of Duo-Art Bach Roll "Toccata & Fugue in D Minor." It is Ampico roll number 40103 "Toccata & Fugue in D Minor," J. Bach, arranged by Tausig, played by Ignaz Friedman. Reproduced from the Duo-Art for the Ampico by William Flynt. The roll bears ...

•[Marvin sent the message below to Mr. Kattelman's AOL address given in the 05.06.19 MMD, but it was returned. He now has a different email address (tallpaulk@fuse.net.geentroep), which apparently works, after the usual removal of .geentroep] Dear Paul Kattelman, I believe I have the materials and e...

•I am very anxious to hear from anybody who actually built a band organ from my book, "Building An Electronic Band Organ". In the late 1980s I did get a few letters, tapes and photos, but they all disappeared with the rest of my stuff and I'd like to re-establish contact with them and any others int...

•Posting Information from pre-1930 issues of the Tuners' Journal Hi All, Some concern has been expressed about the new web pages I just mentioned the other day [050907 MMDigest]. These are the ones that have information which came from the Tuners' Journal in 1927 and 1928. I've talked to a few peopl...

•An article in a recent Wall Street Journal discussed attempts by record companies to suppress yet another electronic technology. It said by way of background that songwriters once tried to sue the player piano out of existence. I'd never heard about this, though it certainly sounds plausible. What ...

•This is in response to Mike Kukral's posting about pirating music rolls. Scanning rolls is like taking a photograph of them. Many of us feel that it is important to scan as many old rolls as possible before they deteriorate to useless. What is done later with the scanned data files is where problem...

•1. In my list of rolls is no roll which is scanned from another roll. 2. All rolls of my list are arranged/transcribed by Rex Lawson or me or composed by several composers who gave me their permission. 3. In the case of the Nancarrow Edition (reconstruction of all player piano compositions by Nanca...

•Hello MMD readers, As one who has floated in and out of the elements of "Ballet Mecanique" by George Antheil for over a half century, I have seen many sides of this experimental work. The late Dale and Sally Lawrence, among the early founders of AMICA, were involved in a San Francisco production in...

•Being in Canada this phenomenon almost passed right by me, but as I just read up on it, I simply couldn't help myself. I've sent a "parodie" (hint hint) version for 20-keyless crank-organ to the editor to be put up at the MMD Sounds section for evrybody to enjoy. :-P "sni sna snappy - snappy snappy...

•> [ Could we "bend the rules" a little bit? A friendly lawyer simply > [ said, "I wouldn't take the chance, Robbie. Even if a charge of > [ infringement isn't upheld by the court, you can't afford lawyers > [ like me to defend you in a lawsuit brought by a copyright owner." > [ -- Robbie I'm afraid...

•I do have one Duo-Art piano roll that I must replace for it's days are numbered. It's roll no. 713054, "Indian Love Call -- Rose Marie, Fox Trot and Song Roll, Copyright 1924, Played by Freddie Rich, Written by Rudolf Friml." The QRS music roll company no got it. I've looked in many places. It must...

•There must be another side to the "debate" about the appropriateness of roll scanning. (I put "debate" in quotes because we see a lot from the "good idea" folks, but little if anything from those who oppose, so there doesn't seem to be much of a debate.) Is it a feeling that there is a copyright vi...

•I want to add another voice to the battle on preservation. The work Jack Breen is doing is of immeasurable historical importance. Without this activity many unique documents and performances will be lost. I refer to the Library of Congress images of some of the earliest movie films: copies were mad...