•Several emails arrived as a result of the item in MMDigest 091202. Here are answers to some of the queries. My organ presently has two ranks of small pipes, 37 Bourdon, and 33 reed oboes, from a church organ, plus a single long folded pipe covering two bass octaves driven by four polyphonic oscilla...

•I am in the middle stages of adding a non-invasive optional MIDI control system to my Wurlitzer band organ. I've reached a critical road block in the acquisition of a key part -- a MIDI interface that uses the MIDI protocol and cables to communicate with a computer. This part had been available as ...

•[ Bill Clark wrote in 101017 MMDigest -- > Are there guidelines on how to lay out the pipes? ... Hello Bill, I'll try to give some generalities although I'm sure that the professional folks will have much better and more detailed ideas. In the traditional and antique organs, there can be one or mor...

•Dear Matthew, Greetings from The Bronx! The approximate dimensions of the organ were told to me by the carver of the band organ figures. The percussions, except for the woodpecker, woodblock and glockenspiel, are concealed on the inside of the organ, hence no drum wings. The organ was delivered san...

•Dave Haibach, in 110903 MMDigest, asked about the Wurlitzer Style 155 "Monster" music CD, "Music for Carousel Lovers", that was sold at the Kit Carson County Carousel. Jo Downey, Kit Carson County Carousel Advisory Board member, has confirmed that all copies of the CD were sold and there are presen...

•Pianist Clyde Ridge was interviewed by the Southeast Missourian during a visit to his hometown, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in July, 1950. Here is a short chronological summary of his musical activities up to 1950. 1932-1937 - played piano in several traveling dance bands. January 1936 - pianist with...

•A truly outstanding book has been published and is now available for those of us who love musical clocks compounded by whimsy and somewhat outlandish trips of fancy to a world occupied by gnomes, provincial tradesmen, eagles, cuckoo birds, foxes, and other things that roam the woods and go bump in ...

•A Beautiful Book, Documenting a Magnificent Collection of Black Forest Clocks Schwarzwalduhren: Sammeln, Restaurieren, Bewahren. (Black Forest Clocks: Collect, Restore, Preserve) By Heinrich Engelmann. Published by the author in 2012. 350 pages, 12 x 8.5 inches, hardbound, printed glossy cover, 617...

•I've successfully arranged an entire roll of songs for the Wurlitzer 165 band organ scale. I've arranged somewhere around 100 total Wurlitzer 165 band organ songs, but I carefully picked out and arranged 10 songs which I think go well together. Here is the list of songs: 165-1-01 - "March/Waltz Com...

•Dear Craig, If my memory serves me correct, several years ago (maybe 20+), either Dr. Jan-Jaap Haspels or Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume gave a talk about them at what I believe was an MBSI Annual Convention. It was accompanied by a film showing the alleged operations of the 'Nef' Ship Automaton. I mention...

•Hi Group, Has anyone re-cut Wurlitzer Style 125 roll number 3143? My copy has become unplayable and I would like to replace it. No. 3143 - Standard March Roll 1. Under The Double Eagle, March, J. F. Wagner 2. Officer Of The Day, March Two Step, R. B. Hall 3. Ben Hur Chariot Race, March, E. T. Paull...

•Brian Thornton's post (MMD 150903) about music roll paper prompted me to finally write on the same subject. When I first started punching busker organ rolls by hand, I purchased a single roll of dry waxed paper from the Tonnesens and slit it to the correct width using a home-made slitter which cons...

•[ Ref. "Neatsfoot Oil as Leather Sealant" in 160616 MMDigest ] Mr. Bullock offered one view of organ leathers and I would like to add a little to the perspective. As I recall, batches of leather would turn out bad, or alternatively local environments would end up being problematic. I remember one c...

•In the final analysis, an arrangement must match the performance capabilities of the individual organ on which it is to be played. An arranger can not safely assume that all organs playing the same scale will all be able to play the same arrangement properly. The reason a particular organ fails to ...

•Since 2014 I have visited the Glen Echo Dentzel carousel and Wurlitzer 165 band organ three times a year, particularly in the months of May, August and September. During my visits, the Wurlitzer 165 (even though it is one of the most well-maintained band organs on Earth), has had at least a few flu...

•Besides Wurlitzer band organs, I have vastly listened to other band organ by other manufacturers in the United States. This includes manufacturers such as: Artizan, Stinson and North Tonowanda. Mostly, this article focuses on the more rare band organs made by the Artizan Factories of North Tonowand...

•Andrew Lardieri brings up an interesting subject comparing the two arrangements of the march, "Our Sammies", which appears on Wurlitzer Style 165 rolls 6509 and 6539 (and also on 'lost roll' 6553 which is the same version that appears on 6509). This is one of a few tunes that were arranged more tha...

•Good day, folks. In reading the series of comments on this original article submitted by Andrew, I would like to throw my two cents into the mix. Both the comments by Art Thompson and Al Good bring up some important thoughts on the notable attributes of the music normally heard on Artizan band orga...

•Since the 3rd Wurlitzer 165 roll I commissioned this year (6900), all ten tunes on my next rolls for the future years (starting with first titled roll "Simon & Garfunkel Classics" for 2020), will be carefully typed out on Microsoft Word by myself so that Glenn Thomas and Andy Park get a clearer mor...

•Some time back I posted on MMD asking for help with installing a set of swell shades on our Wurlitzer 153 band organ. I want to thank all who responded, and we are now well on the way to getting the job completed. A special thanks to Jack Breen who sent a lot of photos, and Matthew Caulfield who pr...