•[ Jody wrote to Rowland Lee -- [ [ "Although this wasn't part of the original discussion regarding [ YouTube, your knowledge on this subject inspires me to ask about [ music roll and music box disc duplication. Presumably the composer [ or whoever owns the rights to the composition would have been ...

•[ Jody wrote to Rowland Lee -- [ [ "What about a 'new performance' created by a hired arranger? [ Presumably the original composer or whoever owns the rights to [ the composition should be paid too. How would that be done?" If you want to make an arrangement of a copyrighted piece of music, proceed...

•Answering Mike Walter's question: A database of scanned titles was always the intention of the IAMMP web site, http://www.iammp.org/ created as part of the rollscanners project by Warren Trachtman. Scanner-owners would deposit their scans in it, and the database would be populated using the metadat...

•There exists such a database online under the URL http://IAMMP.org/ This was the archive of the Yahoo 'rollscanners' group. The acronym is for "International Association of Mechanical Music Preservationists". Like many on-line things this is pretty much defunct. Without a dedicated person to mainta...

•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...

•Hello, I'm searching for a player piano music roll, Recordo Player Roll Company No. 66680, with American pianist Edward Collins playing his own Waltzes, Op. 15, Nos. 3 and 4. The roll was registered with the US Copyright Office in 1922, and was probably recorded by Collins during the period of 1916...

•A recent discussion about Nelson-Wiggen labels lead me to suggest that I should be able to photograph the label on my 4X, clean it up with PhotoShop, and then print it on inkjet printable decal paper (used often for model railroads, etc). As I started working on this, I realized that our scanner wa...

•I am in need of a rollography or some information on Filmusic music roll files that I received. Unfortunately the person who scanned them only put the roll number into the header information. There is no information in the .cis image files other than the roll number. If you need numbers, please con...

•I listened to the unidentified 67-keyless book tunes, and one was not only familiar but, for me, a favorite! Tune 6 on the list of unknowns (unkOnestep2.58.mp3) is "All Aboard for Dixie Land", music by George L. Cobb, words by Jack Yellen, copyright 1914. Wil Markey has that same book for his organ...

•[ Ref. Dennis Gabriel in 140601 MMDigest and [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/14/06/01/140601_180123_musicbox_06.mp3 I'm not very good at tune identification but I did recognize #6. It's "I'm Called Little Buttercup", from "H.M.S. Pinafore" by Gilbert and Sullivan (1878). Craig Smith Upstate N...

•[ Ref: 140924 MMDigest, Open-Source Hardware Circa 1920 and [ http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1323960 A selection of comments follows Julie Porter's article in EE Times. Reader "Etmax", at 9/17/2014 1:07:40 PM, wrote, "I'm not sure why this is considered open source; providin...

•[ Ref. http://youtu.be/2AVBQVQxDRw Chatfield Brass Band's music lending library does have an incomplete set of parts for a march by this name. It was composed by Fred Vokoun. The solo cornet part generally was used by the conductor in those days and often is the only part that bears the copyright d...

•[ Ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvjknkyJMKI Craig Wiley was inquiring about the tune labeled "Missouri Waltz" that he has on a 48-key B.A.B. roll #31. I have a recording of this B.A.B. roll and the title is not "Missouri Waltz", but "Missouri Moon." This title also appears on B.A.B. 66-key r...

•The Filmusic Company, Inc., was formed in 1918 and had a factory at 1729 Highland Avenue in Hollywood (Los Angeles), Calif. Ref. "The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry," copyright 1998 by Anthony Slide. Although the focus was the Filmusic "Picturoll", with music to accompany s...

•Reference Darren J. Wallace's enquiry for early replica tune sheets [150514 MMDigest]. This is a 'tough call', not just for Bordier but also for any similar snuffbox/tabatière maker of this early period. I am seriously interested in any contribution to MMD that involves early tune sheet examples fo...

•I bought a fairly youthful QRS roll recently in an antique store, bearing the title "Q-168 Darktown Strutters Ball (The original QRS 164)". After I got it home and looked at the first part of the punching, it didn't seem to match the QRS 164 scans so amply represented at IAMMP, of which this is a g...

•Matthew Caulfield's posting is excellent. I've been hoping someone would bring attention to this subject. Obviously, Google, owner of YouTube, intends to make money, but the copyright enforcement issue is very vague. Here are some of my own experiences with YouTube. When I posted a video of one of ...

•Ray Bauer enjoys ragtime music and occasionally plays his small percussion 'kit' with a ragtime ensemble in Sacramento, Calif. I asked if he'd ever seen a piano roll of "Sunflower Slow Drag" and he replied, "Sure, it's right here, and it sounds _great_ when I play it on my Reproduco piano-organ -- ...

•I have two books available for sale to any reasonable offer: (1) A hard cover book in almost mint condition titled, "The Complete Catalog of Ampico Reproducing Rolls, By Elaine Obenchain." Publisher: American Piano Company, New York, USA; Copyright 1977; Published by Vestal Press 1987. Contents: Pa...

•In October of 2014, we hosted a weekend celebration for the centennial of our Aeolian pipe organ. Four groups attended the event. As a preview, we had prepared a video giving background for the Aeolian Company and specifically, the history of our Opus 1280 prior to the actual program present on the...