•According to an article summarized in the German email news service DE-NEWS, on Sunday 17 December 2000, the city council of Weitkirch, in the district of Emmendingen, has suggested that the town allocate around 15 million marks to purchase "the largest collection of European mechanical musical ins...

•The 106 titles of "Tangles Tunes" are as follows;- [ We got multiple replies! See the complete list in the article [ by Russell Wattam. Thanks anyhow for all your work, Adam! :-) [ -- Robbie In the sheet music (a copy of which I have in my collection) the whole selection may be played from tunes 1 ...

•Bryan "Catt" Cather wrote that he is looking for a copy of the sheet music for a tune called "Me and the Boy Friend". After checking my files, I find a have a copy of this tune. The music is by Jimmie Monaco, and the lyrics are by Sidney Clare, and it is copyrighted by Jerome H. Remick in 1924. I w...

•As far as the Play-Rite Wurlitzer band organ rolls are concerned, I seem to recall they edited and combined the contents of old rolls. They were not a direct copy of the originals. The length of the tunes were shortened and the playing order was scrambled. This what Play-Rite copyrighted, not the w...

•In MMD 020116 Bob Kerstein enquired about the Electric Self-Playing Piano Co. and a mention of G Howlett Davis was made. Howlett Davis was the patentee of the technology behind the 'Electra' brand rolls (Standard Music Roll Co NJ). There has been a lot of recent talk about solenoid pianos vs. pneum...

•Dear All, Do any of you the history about Gavioli & Cie and when they started building organs, 'cause I am doing a history page on my mechanical music web site and in February I am doing the history of Gavioli Organs. If any of you can help I would be very happy. Please email at the address below. ...

•I have in my collection a roll by QRS (ArtEcho). It is #R4049, named "Bambalina" (from 'The Wildflower'), words by Harbach and Hammerstein II, music by Youmans and Stothart, played by Phil Ohman, copyrighted Harms, Inc., MCMXXIII. I am not familiar with ArtEcho. What does anyone know about this rol...

•Matthew Caulfield sent us a nice obituary of organbuilder and composer Robert Heilbuth, which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle of Friday, June 28, 2002. Chronicle writer Kelly St. John says that Heilbuth "built five organs in his home in the Richmond District, including a baroque tracker act...

•[ Matthew Caulfield answers email requests for information for [ Musical Box Society Int'l (MBSI). He replied to this request [ for me. -- Robbie > To: rolls@foxtail.com > From: lauracrofttmbrdr@cs.com (Laura) > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:19:45 EST > Subject: Music box > > I got a few music boxes ma...

•I am seeking information about two songs with lyrics composed by Solomon Gray. The first song is "Naughty Naughty Mister Moon", words by Solomon Gray, music by E.S.S. Huntington, copyrighted 1922. The second song is "Quitting Blues", words by Solomon Gray, music by Arnold T. Lax, published by Frank...

•Dear MMDs, and dear Mike Moran, Many thanks for your answer, and good luck for your project. So I understand ROMFI is a private non-profit organisation. It is always better to know who maintains a web site ... By the way, I understand too that ROMFI means : (world) *R*epository *O*f *M*anu*F*acture...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Greetings! I recently came across a 480 page maroon and gold cover Duo-Art piano music book from the Aeolian company. It's full of pictures of composers and song titles. It's copyrighted 1927 and is in very good shape. The pages are in excellent ...

•Dear MMDers, With the ongoing discussion of band organs and carousel organs not being played, a number of folks brought up the suggestion of getting some modern music arranged for the organs. I hate to bring up this old subject but playing modern and current music in public could cause some problem...

•I picked up a group of rolls on eBay and in the batch was Imperial x5962, entitled "Who?" Does anyone know who played it? It is an unusually well-arranged and energetic fox trot with raggy "decorations" and perfect timing. This piece was from "Sunny", probably an old musical and was copyrighted by ...

•I have had so many messages about my 1986 book, "Building An Electronic Band Organ", that I am seriously considering rewriting it, taking out the electronic stuff and giving designs for making it a pipe model. I'd like to include the chapters from Mark Wicks' 1887 "Organbuilding for Amateurs", now ...

•One of my very observant music roll customers has brought to my attention that one of the Duo-Art rolls on my current music roll auction is not in the Charles Davis Smith rollography, "Catalog of Duo-Art Piano Rolls". See under Duo-Art rolls, lot number 134, at http://home.earthlink.net/~rollertune...

•Gavioli made these reed organs from about 1860 till 1900, maybe even until the closure of the factory in 1912. These reed organs were made with or without expression and with between 26 to 35 keys. I have sent pictures of such an instrument to Bill, but I cannot send them to MMD due to copyrights; ...

•Buster Keaton's last silent film, "The Love Nest", produced in 1923, was re-issued later with a sound track featuring a Fotoplayer operated by Robert Israel. The recording is excellent, and includes many of the sound effects produced by the Fotoplayer. The story is about Buster's adventures on a wh...

•The Wurlitzer band organ factory ledgers posted this morning are a great research source for all of us. Many thanks to Matthew and everyone who made this possible. I have downloaded both lists, a significant feat out here at the end of the phone line with a dial-up modem. My Style 146 is listed! I ...

•I am an avid collector of all things related to composer E. T. Paull. My interest in musical boxes stems from the Regina Music Box Co. having licensed music from E. T. Paull: "Ben Hur Chariot Race", composed and copyrighted by E. T. Paull, 1894, issued on Regina tune sheet #1409. My search for imag...