•Hello, Before beginning I would like to introduce myself as this is my first posting. I am a young mechanical music enthusiast living on the East Coast of the United States and I look forward to getting to meet you all. The topic of this post is about the elusive 125-key Verbeeck concert organs. I ...

•Hello again, As some of you may remember, I was involved in consulting an organ restoration committee for the restoration of a mysterious roll player in a church. Said project was put on hold until music rolls could be found, but a real gem was hidden in plain sight! In the church of 'Parroquia Asu...

•Hello All, I would like some detailed information as to the construction of Jazz Flute pipes. Has anyone on this forum built a set of these? I've heard these pipes on YouTube playing on an Arburo Dance Organ, and I understand the principal behind them, but how can the tremolo feature be added to a ...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 02:00:00 MEST From: Cary Karp To: Multiple recipients of list MICAT-L Subject: Technical drawings From: Arnold Myers MICAT-L subscribers, especially those interested in brass instruments and plucked strings, might be interested to know th...

•Jody, This is a looooong one. It's about how I do the reading, transposing thing, but feel free, as usual, to snip it. It was too big for the clipboard, so I had to send it as an attachment. Sorry. It's called ronsredr.txt. Thanks, as always! [ Editor's note: I decoded the message back into text. H...

Paris, May 8th, 1996 On the 96.05.07 mailing list digest, I was complaining that, as a Macintosh user, I could not extract the MIDI files which are sometimes encrypted in the e-mail text of the mailing list. I really wanted for example to see > The MIDI file of the recreated master roll of Ampico re...

[ Editor's note: [ [ Hidden midst all the phonographs in this list is an intriguing [ mention of a big orchestrion. The sender is not a subscriber to MMD [ but evidently is aware of our interests. Please respond to the sender [ (and let us know if you get more information about the orchestrion!) [ ...

•Following is what I could jot down throughout two nearly 11-hour days of auction which took place at Miles Music Museum in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It is not complete as it only noted items I wanted to keep track of. I will use it to adjust my internal pricing schedule. You may notice that there w...

•Rick Inzero says: > Holy Marimba Roll, Batman! Her fingers are smoking! By chance, I attended the 1979 AMICA Convention in Philadelphia, at which Pauline played for us at our banquet. Here's Molly Yeckley's report of that concert: ".... then on to the entertainment for the evening. Pauline Alpert's...

•[ This article by Gerry Bay includes much material from Ron Bopp which [ will appear soon in the MBSI Bulletin. Thanks to Gerry and Ron for [ the report. When I get my photos scanned I hope to place a [ complementary photo page at the MMD web site. -- Robbie When I heard that Ron and Mary Jo Bopp w...

•[ Continuing the topic which began in 000403 MMD, "Free Reeds [ and Beating Reeds", by Prof. Johan. -- Robbie The reason you use reed pipes at all is that they give louder sound and have higher and stronger harmonics as compared to flue pipes. But they are more difficult to fabricate and handle. In...

•Hello, MMD friends, Jeff Bridges wrote, in 030919 MMDigest: > Whalom Park, in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, has closed for good. ... > Let's not let a piece of history, nor the carousel, go to waste! The carousel was forced to auction by Commerce Bank in April 2000. At the time of the auction, this Loo...

•Hello group, I have identified one of the formerly unknown Wurlitzer 165 band organ tunes, tune #7 on roll #6505. It is a march in 2/4 meter with a very exciting and spectacular arrangement that just gets better and better as it goes along! The song title is "Under the Big Tent", a march composed b...

Stephen Bicknell, intrepid author of the new book History of the English Pipe Organ, published by Cambridge University Press, elaborates on a a PIPORG-L thread following the (almost) word "orchestrian". He would be delighted to have you copy your comments to him: Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 20:52:15 +0000...

• [ Editor's Note: [ [ The following message was sent in without comment, but I'm [ assuming from the subject line and the context that its a [ research paper Damon wrote for a class in school. [ [ Jody Pneumatically Run Self-Playing Instruments During a seemingly simpler time, there was a great amo...

•All items in the Cooley Collection reduced up to 30% until 4/1/99 Hi Robbie and Jody, I am responding to your request of 1/3/99 for a price list on all the items in our collection that are for sale. We must make room for much more stuff that is pouring in from Canada since local building restrictio...

•I'm Purist and Proud ! In a little over a year as a member of this forum, I have tried to stay out of controversial subjects. I have created controversy -- i.e., my erroneous reporting of the demise of the Reuter pipe organ with player mechanism in the Brinkley residence in Del Rio TX -- but as a r...

•[ I asked Will to write a short report about his collection of [ zither-like instruments, dubbed "zitheroids" recently by Jurgen [ Goering. Most of these aren't really a self-playing mechanical [ music instrument, but they're frequently seen in collectors homes, [ nearby fine music boxes and orches...

•History of 65 & 69 Key Gebruder Bruder "Elite Orchestra Apollo" Organs by Jeff Alterman Probably the best known organs in the United States built by the firm of Gebruder Bruder are the 65- and 69-key Gebruder Bruder "Elite Orchestra Apollo". They were designed by Gustav Bruder in Waldkirch about 19...

•In MMD 030903, Dan Wilson quoted a passage from the recent translation of the wonderful book, "At the Hupfeld recording salon". This was from Hans W. Schmitz's article [page 19], "Music roll production at Ludwig Hupfeld AG, Leipzig", in particular where he considers the moves within the trade that ...