•Well, I have not been up to Tilden Park in Berkeley in a couple of months; the last time was when the music was cut off by a bad tape cassette player. To fast forward through this story, the original problem with the organ seems to have been that without a sound baffle and a safety fence, local ord...

•Bernt, I'm not familiar with your particular machine, but oscillation in general can be changed or eliminated by increasing or decreasing mass (and thus the resonant frequency) of the moving parts. Try attaching, with duct tape, a hunk of metal like a large nut or fishing weight on one or the other...

•Hello All. Am seeking anyone with knowledge or possession of paper music rolls (with cartridge) made by the John C. Deagan Company to be played on their unique tape player that is connected to tower tube chimes. We possess four rolls that we play on our restored Deagan tape player, but we are seeki...

•Hi, To repair rolls, I recommend to use acid-free archival mending tape: - Filmoplast P (width 2 cm), or - Lineco mending tissue (width 1/2"). These tapes are made of thin paper, and the adhesive doesn't leak outside the tape. I use Filmoplast P (transparent), easily found in Europe, not the P90, w...

•My God -- roll edge tearing again! I have played rolls for over 40 years and almost _never_ tear a roll unless the paper (e.g., International rolls) are super brittle. A little tape of any kind on the left spool, and the roll tamped down on the right spool is the ticket. Just pull out the left spoo...

•On roll repair, it has become important to differentiate between repairing 88-note and reproducing piano rolls. Yes, almost all the 88-note rolls can be repaired with any sort of tape, or even duct tape if you care to, and they will probably play on your pumper piano. Even if you cover all the left...

•There is one other nasty thing that results from constantly recutting player rolls from old warped or shrunken originals or unknown recuts -- it is called additive errors. Remember what a forth generation VHS tape looked like? Player rolls where one has a superb copy to use to run the perforator is...

•For sale: AMICA Honorary Member Leo Podolsky plays "A Program for AMICA." This piano recording includes comments of the artist. The audio tape was created at the same time as the ten Ampico rolls in 1984. See the MMDigest of April 17, 2010, for a description of the project's beginning. I have final...

•Hi All, Nevin Engle writes in 120719 MMDigest: > When I connect to a vacuum source, the stack is tight when the > holes from the pouches are covered, without the top on. When the > tape is removed, all pneumatics close and everything is tight. > After the top is attached, only half of the holes in ...

•Hello MMD. A long time ago, before I discovered Filmoplast Archival tape, I was casting around for a way of repairing damaged piano rolls, that would be less tedious then using Magic Tape. Someone, I don't remember who, suggested that it might be feasible to paint cellulose acetate, which is solubl...

•In building up a Wurlitzer-like Style 150 roll band organ, we have pictures of the bass trombone mitering but need dimensions of at least the lowest, longest bass pipe. Could someone out there take a tape measure to one they have on your 150 roll playing organ? Would be most appreciative. Sincerely...

•Hello -- Regarding rolls tearing on rewind, I once again offer this advice. I think it is not a good idea to glue the left spool flange in place. A spool flange wrapped with tape gives one flexibility and aid in tamping the roll to the right side. As I have been playing rolls on many pianos over 60...

•I'm writing today seeking a copy of MelODee roll #5051, "Yes! We Have No Bananas." I currently have a copy that is playable but is somewhat damaged toward the end. Its previous owner also made numerous fixes with scotch tape and computer paper. Playing the thing scares me to death for fear of ruini...

•Perhaps someone could help me with identifying an "A" roll that I heard many years ago at the Musical Museum in Deansboro, New York. I have attached MP3 audio files of the five songs I recorded on cassette tape circa 1988 at the museum. The roll was played on a Western Electric Mascot cabinet nicke...

•I'm still looking for a Dulciphone treadle sewing machine cover. I'd like to buy, see, photograph, video tape and/or hear one. I'm a treadle sewing machine collector and user and would dearly love to at least see one of these. I know my fellow treadle collectors would love to see a video of one of ...

•Our store has been selling the digital players since they were introduced. I was an employee of Superscope Marantz when they introduced the Pianocorder tape-played piano kits. One great thing about our old Ampicos and Duo-Arts is that the 'software' is not out of date, so to speak. Try to buy a mus...

•I am sad to hear of Jan van Eijk's passing. Some years back, I heard a cassette tape of one of his 51-key street organs, and I liked it very much. I ordered a dozen more cassettes of the organ, and finally decided to purchase one from Jan. He and his two sons built a few organs each year, including...

•[ Allen Ford wrote in 150412 MMDigest -- > I am asking if anyone has a phono recording, cassette tape > or piano roll, etc., of this music that they might share. Hi, all! By request, I recorded a little version of Sissle and Blake's 1919 Witmark publication, "The Baltimore Blues". As it happens, I ...

•Hi Group. Does anyone service Pianocorders in the Orlando, Florida, area? I got an email from a woman there. It sounds like a tape deck problem. Arthur Marino

•Lyle, The most likely problems would be holes in the bellows cloth and/or defective valves. Try this: put a piece of tape over all the holes in the tracker bar. Tip it on the left side so you can see the bellows working. Now, crank it about once per second and watch the bellows. A few turns and the...