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| 2006.07.02.02 |
Zenph Studios Audio-to-MIDI Conversion Service
from John Del Carlo •Amid all the talk about preserving old piano rolls, etc., this may be of interest to the readers of MMDigest. There is a company, www.zenph.com, that has invented a way to take old solo piano sound recordings and translate them into a high quality MIDI file, playable on a solenoid piano, such a the... |
| 2006.07.05.01 |
Archival Music Roll Scanning
from Wallace Venable •Harald Mueller said: > Not being good arrangers, they try to use modern technologies like > scanning, but also conversion of (non-organ) MIDI files downloaded from > the Internet or simply getting hold of others' arranged MIDI files. But that is not archival music roll scanning -- that is using MID... |
| 2006.07.31.01 |
Possible Roycroft Seen At AMICA 2006 Convention
from Bob Taylor •During my DVD presentation at the AMICA convention, several astute and keenly observant people saw what they thought was a Roycroft mark on the leather bound brochure for Aeolian Organs. Upon my return home, I looked closely and found the Orb did not contain the letter "R", but rather, a star. So I... |
| 2007.01.07.01 |
Seek "Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty"
from Lyn Reid •-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hi Jill, I am on a mission to obtain a copy of the pianola roll, "Nobody Loves A Fairy When She's Forty". I hope you can help me find this roll or point me in the right direction. I have a CD of Tessie O'Shea singing the song but I would love ... |
| 2007.01.16.07 |
Manufacture of Hot Glue
from Julian Dyer •I delved a bit (so to speak) into hot glue for an article in the Player Piano Group bulletin a year or two back. Hot glue is simply gelatine, traditionally made from animal bones and skin, processed to denature the collagen into gelatine. Different processing affected things such as the residual am... |
| 2007.01.22.02 |
Favorite Song Titles
from Matthew Caulfield •Tom Sendall mentions a couple of his favorite tune titles from the old days. There really were some winners back then. How about "Hey! You Want Any Codfish, We Only Got Mack'rel Today"? The copyright information for this 1923 foxtrot is just as odd: "words: Ima Fish; music: Ura Herring." I'm not ma... |
| 2007.02.27.01 |
"I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream"
from Dave Kerr •If this is the song title Ben Jackson seeks, I have it here on the 'Favorite 88 note' shelf beside the upright piano. One of the first rolls of more than 1200 originals I've scanned to date, this lively tune is US (United States) Player Music Roll # 44775, Fox Trot and One Step, perforated in March... |
| 2007.03.12.05 |
New Solenoid Player Piano Systems
from Rob Goodale •[ Terry Smythe wrote in 070311 MMDigest: > ... a new solenoid player system called PianoForce > ... Stahnke 'Concerto' -- the world's newest player piano system > ... Has anybody had any experience with these two systems? I am a certified PianoDisc technician and have tried to familiarize myself wi... |
| 2007.05.18.06 |
USPS Media Mail & Metal Musical Box Discs
from Jack Perron •Thanks to those who responded with guidance. I managed to 'charm' my postmistress into changing her mind. If anybody else ever has this issue, here's a couple of interesting points. 1. Yes, the USPS (as previous posters have noted) does consider player piano rolls to be 'sound recordings', and henc... |
| 2008.01.04.05 |
E. T. Paull Rollography
from Bob Riopel •-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMDigest -- I'm trying to compile a rollography encompassing 19th and 20th century piano rolls related to E. T. Paull (often identified simply as "Paull") as the composer, arranger, performer, publisher or copyright holder. Any informational contributio... |
| 2008.07.16.01 |
Microphone for Recording a Disc Musical Box
from Mark Singleton •Years ago we tried with little success to gain an accurate recording of disc musical boxes, but something within the sound frequency made our early attempts rather dire. We then mounted a guitar mic under the bedplate and played it through a large valve amplifier -- Eureka! We altered the amps sett... |
| 2008.10.17.03 |
E. T. Paull on QRS Music Rolls
from Bob Riopel •-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello, MMDers -- I'm trying to collect and/or identify all QRS-brand music roll titles related to E. T. Paull (as composer, arranger, "performer," publisher or copyright holder). So far, my list includes the titles and roll numbers listed below. ... |
| 2008.11.02.05 |
E. T. Paull on U. S. Music Co. Rolls
from Bob Riopel •Similar to other requests, I'm seeking information related to music rolls of U. S. Music Co. as they relate to E. T. Paull (e.g., as composer, arranger, performer, publisher, copyright holder, etc.) Currently, I have the following U. S. Music rolls: "REGULAR" (yellow) label 10010 Dashing Cavaliers... |
| 2008.11.09.01 |
Our Published Heritage
from Roger Wiegand •Several recent posts and MBSI articles have discussed the issue of making historic documents available, some stating that the scanning is not the problem, but rather the distribution and making the materials searchable. I'd hope that it would not be necessary to re-invent this particular wheel. Var... |
| 2009.02.01.01 |
Contacting Sankyo Shoji Co.
from Matthew Caulfield •Sankyo Shoji does sell larger musical cylinder movements as well as the small 18-note novelty movements. What sets them apart from Reuge, Ste.-Croix, Switzerland, which also sells small and large movements, is that Sankyo stocks a much larger number of tunes for their movements. Reuge's movements a... |
| 2009.03.05.03 |
Missing Titles, Mills Violano Rolls
from John J. Breen •As many of you may be aware, I have been working for the past ten years to compile a complete rollography for the Violano. The database includes all information that is shown on the roll labels and catalogs including: roll number, roll title, song numbers, song titles, composers, copyright dates, p... |
| 2009.03.05.04 |
James Blythe, Supertone Piano Roll Artist
from Tom DeLay •Some time ago I purchased an 88-note recording at a local antique store. It is on the Supertone label which I believe was sold by Sears Roebuck. Today I finally made repairs to the leader and found a really jazzy recording. The roll is number 5332, "I've Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues", Temp... |
| 2009.03.30.14 |
Formatting Floppy Diskettes for PianoDisc
from Gary Davis •If you are having problems formatting low density, older format floppy disks with a modern version of Windows then reboot your PC with a DOS 6.2.2 floppy boot disk. (You may have to change the boot order in your BIOS setting to look at the floppy drive first.) If you can't find any old single-densi... |
| 2009.05.02.02 |
Scale of 72-key Decap Dance Hall Organ
from Jack M. Conway •Hi Group, In 090429 MMDigest Bob Oppenheim asked about the scale of the 72-key Decap dance hall organ. In "Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments" by Reblitz you will find the following scale -- Decap 72-key books 265 mm (10-7/16" wide) 8 Bass notes 9 Accompaniment notes 16 Melody notes 16 Cou... |
| 2009.12.31.01 |
Source of Musical Box Movements
from Matthew Caulfield •There are two manufacturers of musical movements for cylinder music boxes in business today. There used to be dozens of them, mostly located in Switzerland around Geneva and Ste.-Croix, but they are long gone except for Reuge. Competing with Reuge is Sankyo Shoji in Japan. Reuge has a web site, but... |
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