•I, too, thought it might be a joke, the adhesive tape idea. I'll stick to traditional materials myself. Sometime back some of us had a few beers and were joking around and hit on this idea for getting Duo-Art cross valves to seat that I bet no one -- even on MMD -- could take seriously: "Pick your ...

•Try this place: http://www.leevalley.com/home/main.asp They have a number of types of shellac, also felt disks and small sheets. Your local K-mart type store sells hard felt sheets and circles (discs) in assorted diameters, with sticky tape on one side for furniture feet, about 1/4-inch thick. They...

•Stephen Simpson writes: > I have a fine Decap dance organ, built in Herentals in 1989, which > plays from computer tapes encoded with music in streaming form. ... > The manufacturers suggest that I have the organ converted to MIDI, > but then all the current repertoire is unusable and who is to say...

•Hi to all you MMDers! Ah yes, Matt, it was me that started the ball rolling on "Tain't No Sin", several years back when you sent me a cassette tape of songs with some unknown titles. And now it will be more interesting to hear the song played a Wurlitzer 165 band organ. I wonder what it would sound...

•Hi all, I showed the YouTube video of the QRS factory tour to my wife, and she suggested we should have a DVD or VHS tape to show to people who visit our house. Is this video available? Devon Hollingsworth, in DeKalb, Illinois

•I had a player piano and, as he was tuning it for me, I made a camcorder video tape of the friend who sold it to me. At first I thought the tape was to show me how to remove the mechanism, as that was necessary to get to the tuning keys. However, it also showed me the sequence of inserting the felt...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Does anyone have a source for Pianocorder parts, particularly a tape player or a complete whole unit? Thanks. Jane Purtzer

•In the 07.06.13 MMD, Jane Purtzer asked: > Does anyone have a source for Pianocorder parts, particularly > a tape player or a complete whole unit? Hi Jane, I maintain a web site of Pianocorder resources at http://www.pianocorder.info/ One of the pages there provides a list of Pianocorder technician...

•John McClure has requested an "A" test roll. I don't have one for sale, but I can tell you that most tests on the roll can be done quite simply by placing masking tape on the tracker bar and merely poking holes in the tape as needed. Also, on the "A" piano, the technician can do most tests by pulli...

•Let's not get carried away with the premise of this TV show -- it ain't real, folks, it's Hollywood. Why doesn't someone just ask the producers what music was used in the preparation of the tape? Jim Katz

•Hello Craig, You are correct on the Media Mail rules. Each post office has taken its own path on the "rules" to the extent that one of the local post offices here refused to send a video tape of a football game two years ago because it had advertising in the broadcast. Additionally, they have taken...

•Subtitle rebuttal, or defense... Wil Herzog says in rebuttal that the person at the post office suggested Media Mail for a box of tape-books, thus saving me money. When he asked what it contained I'd replied taped books ["talking books"]. He told me about the media rate. Remember that the post offi...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMDigest -- Dear MMD readers, I am looking for a punched tape controlled music box with chromatic tuning in a range of two octaves. I own a diatonic instrument of such a kind, but for a new compositional project I need a chromatic one which I can progra...

•Hi. Many people seem to be asking about transcribing music. My requirements are different. I have some recordings of piano which are on old cassette tape. They are listenable but clearly are suffering from age and indeed the original recording. I believe that I could get a basic wav to MIDI convers...

•Randy Hayno's posting in the 08.11.26 MMD about the bad effect of automatic gain control (AGC) on player piano recordings made with cheap equipment struck a familiar note with me. I have been plagued by the same problem in trying to find a relatively inexpensive tape recorder for use in making band...

•This is a repeat of the information I posted in Digest 2005.11.03 which may help you. Formatting 1.4 Mb Floppy Diskettes as 720 kb You can convert regular 1.44 Mb disks to 720 kb by placing a piece of tape over the "other" hole at the top of the diskette, i.e., the one which does not have the write...

•Clarence, I had to service one of these before and, sad to say, you have to take the upper part _completely off_. With some sort of tape, mark all the tubing with numbers and disconnect them. Loosen all the items that is holding the upper part in place. Remove the upper part and service. Then repla...

•Here is a novel method of making simple decals I have heard about. Take a piece of water-adhesive paper tape, spray a good coat of clear poly over the adhesive. Print on that with your printer. Then give it another coat of clear poly, cut it out, and it is ready to use. I haven't tried it; has anyo...

•Hello Marvin and MMD, Years ago, in a former life, I worked in the field of professional audio and I serviced Ampex tape recorders at local radio stations. One station had an Ampex 300 whose hysteresis synchronous drive motor was run from AC power created by a variable frequency audio oscillator an...

•For sale: Aeolian 48-rank residential player pipe organ with over 200+ Duo-Art rolls. Completely restored and completely releathered, with digital relays and a digital tape player added. The roll player still works perfectly. It is one of the largest residential player pipe organs Aeolian built. Co...