•Thanks to everyone who gave replies with advice on audio to MIDI. You all have talked me out of even trying. I feel I will be better off just listening to my reel-to-reel audio tapes. I will no doubt eventually buy some MIDI CDs from Peter Phillips in Australia and Terry Smythe up in Winnipeg, MB, ...

•Alan Erb wrote: > I have heard from a number of young people who operate carousels, > who are of the opinion that the "real" organ is "too loud", and > (unfortunately), they prefer to play tapes or even the radio. Preference for playing tapes doesn't happen just in this country. When I was in Paris...

•Next week, The History Channel will premiere a program "Save Our History: Save Our Sounds." This program will focus on the restoration efforts to save recorded sounds on wax cylinders, disks, tapes and other media. These recordings include not only music, but also oral history and speeches. It's su...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- My girlfriend has a lovely Yamaha with a Pianocorder system. We have lots of Pianocorder cassette tapes. The cassette player sort of works but I want to find some sort of solution to remove the cassette player from the system. I was wondering wha...

•Hi Group, Maybe if Schafer Bros. Piano Movers finds the lost piano bench they will find inside the 50 Pianocorder tapes of mine that they lost while damaging -- uh, moving -- my Pianocorder. There may be some solenoid wires and cups there also. Jack M. Conway, Los Angeles, California, USA ...

•Hi gang, I know some of you old timers might be able to help me. I am trying to get some old photos and/or 8 and 16 mm tapes that were taken at the Gay 90s Village in Sikeston, Missouri. Anything from the early 1950s to 1978 would be good. I also am looking for pictures and video that was taken at ...

•"Stumbling" was also issued on a Wurlitzer 165 band organ roll. I have it on one of my tapes of a Wurlitzer 165 organ and Arthur Curtze's De Kleist organ that plays Wurlitzer 165 rolls. I believe it is a "Two Step" dance and there is certainly a hint of ragtime in the music. Jeff Alterman ...

•Dear Folks, I have a Kleernote tracker bar pump in an Ampico tracker bar pump box. The pump is like new and has a new rubber tip and a new filter inside. The box is in very poor condition and is taped together, but it _is_ an Ampico box. QRS sells these pumps for $39.95. Will someone give me $25.00...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello, I have a Pianocorder player piano system on a good quality German piano, with a selection of tapes. It also plays MIDI files via a computer interface. It is a great hobby but I am thinking of selling at the right price because I am moving ...

•One of the fortunate fallouts of Tony Greer's project (Thanks, Tony, a great set of disks!) is the motivation for me to hunt up a long-lost Round Tuit and transfer my Tilden Park tapes to digital media. These were made between 1977 and 1980. There is about five hours of music from the big box at Ti...

•Hi all, In response to the questions about how the Wurlitzer bar is made. The holes are drilled for the bar. Tapered tracker bar tubes are then inserted in the back of the bar and soldered in. They are left long. The pre-drilled back of the bar or box is then slipped over the tubes. The tubes are t...

•Thanks to the efforts of Dan Robinson and George Karpel, among others, I have been able to sort out the tune lists on the Tilden Park tapes nearly completely. There are a few loose ends and I would appreciate any help I can get in resolving them. Incidentally, the consensus is that the large organ ...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I thank John and Eliyahu for their detailed suggestions and appreciate knowing about John's web site. We inspected the vacuum supply hose and duct-taped three sections and finally did get rolls to advance (although not at slow tempo and not witho...

•Can anybody supply me with the full list of the "Drehorgel Souvenirs" records made in Germany in the 1970s? What is required is the list number and what type of organ is on the record, and if there were any cassette tapes or CDs made of the recordings. Thank you, Roger Desouches [ A 7-inch Extended...

•The records were made by Kurt Baum of Hamburg in the 1970's and 80's, before Hommerich's records, tapes and CDs. There were about 20 in the series. Roger Desouches [ Peter Schuhknecht of Hannover also privately published [ a series of LPs called Drehorgel-Festival. I have one entitled [ "Drehorgel-...

•I am very anxious to hear from anybody who actually built a band organ from my book, "Building An Electronic Band Organ". In the late 1980s I did get a few letters, tapes and photos, but they all disappeared with the rest of my stuff and I'd like to re-establish contact with them and any others int...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- For sale: Ampico "B" reproducing baby grand player piano, Marshall & Wendell. Lovely warm wood with lighter inlay on square tapered legs. Needlepoint bench and player rolls included. Photos on request. Doris Tumey San Mateo, California tel.: 1...

•I would like to communicate with others who have Pianocorders equipped to play MIDI files. Additionally, I would like to borrow, rent, or buy the original Pianocorder tapes in Volumes 19 ("Elite Syncopations") and 20 ("Ragtime Rhapsodies"). David Sharpe Western Massachusetts

•Hello friends, I have a Decap Herentals dance organ from the early 1990's which plays from music encoded on cassette tapes. I would like to hear from anyone who has an organ which plays on this system, or who has music cassettes for this system. Kinds regards Stephen Simpson (UK)

•I too have been transferring music to CD, in my case recordings of organs which I made myself and were on cassette tapes. I acquired a program for the PC called 'Audio Cleaning' which is available on web site http://www.magix.com/ The program has all kinds of clever digital cleaning and enhancement...