•Once again, I plan to attend the upcoming MBSI annual convention in Dearborn, Michigan, next month. If you have questions, wish to discuss these delightful devices or have one that needs attention, contact me during the convention or see me at my tables during the mart. If you have something to rep...

•John, I join you in this quest as I seek a MIDI solution for remote controlled acoustic pianos and other devices. At one time I had information to MIDIfy such instruments with devices fitted above the keys to trigger electronic "fingers" as you mention, with or without pneumatic triggering, but hav...

•Regarding the value of an 88-note push-up player, if enough people were clamoring for 65/88-note push-up players, and the supply of such devices was insufficient, it seems to me the player rebuilding shops would be fabricating new ones, either from scratch or by modifying existing internal player a...

•The discussion thread, "How to Interest People in Mechanical Music," has made interesting reading. It is also interesting to hear of all the meetings, conventions and exhibitions available to people in America and Europe who are interested in mechanical music devices. This posting is mainly for Aus...

•Once again I plan to attend the upcoming MBSI annual Convention later this month, this year in Rockville, Maryland. If you have questions, or wish to discuss these delightful devices or have one that needs attention, contact me during the convention or see me at my tables during the mart. If you ha...

•And here's another take on the 'bottle organ' -- a milk-bottle organ?! http://www.thepressurecompany.org/devices/tonefloat Enjoy, Jon Large - The Pressure Company Manchester, UK http://www.thepressurecompany.org/

•With all respect to instrument owners who work on their beloved machines and love them dearly: pianos simply cannot be tuned using the method described in 120229 MMDigest using a $70 chromatic tuner and a toothpick. Proper tuning devices have recently come down in price from four figures to several...

•Just as route operators have owned most of the jukeboxes, cigarette machines, arcade machines, and other coin-operated devices in major U.S. cities, they owned most of the coin-operated pianos and orchestrions in the 1920s. The route operator provided new music rolls and performed maintenance. In d...

•Hi all, I am looking for an Ampico B pedal suction regulator to finish off (hopefully) a Mason & Hamlin restoration project. If you have one of these devices (with a single sleeve pneumatic) available, please let me know! Thanks very much. Mike Walter Buffalo, New York tel.: 1-716-656-9583 mikew_14...

•Dear MMDers, I have written and published a book, "Japanese Automata -- Karakuri Zui: An Eighteenth Century Manual of Automatic Mechanical Devices." "Karakuri Zui" was published as a set of three volumes of books in 1796 and the British Museum has its original set which is introduced at the followi...

•This may sound like a commercial, but the DeBence Museum is doing the best we can to keep band organs (and other mechanical music devices) available to the public. We have worked with two different amusement parks over the past 13 years. One of the organs is still in use, the other has been parked...

•Once again, I plan to attend the upcoming MBSI annual convention, this year in the Chicago area. If you have questions, wish to discuss these delightful whistling devices, or have one that needs attention, contact me during the convention or see me at my tables during the mart. If you have somethin...

•I used to own a 1913 Chickering Stoddard Ampico upright in mahogany. It had a large open pump run by a flat belt and piston expression devices. Frank Adams bought it from me, and I've regretted ever since having sold it. Does anyone know of such a piano now? Thanks, Tom Binnall

•We've seen numerous comments regarding low humidity relating to this subject. Some of them suggest steps to control the humidity in the house. I would like to point out that there are devices which mount up inside a piano to control humidity very locally. The one I have is called a Dampp Chaser, si...

•Hi All, I've put together a simple web page with a number of pictures of the devices in a Packard player grand piano. While it has a number of parts that indicate a connection with Ampico/Amphion, the expression devices are completely unfamiliar to me. See http://www.player-care.com/packard.html Ac...

•Once again, I plan to attend the upcoming MBSI annual convention; this year in the Fort Lauderdale area. If you have any questions, wish to discuss these delightful whistling devices, or have one that needs attention, contact me during the convention or see me at the exhibition, after my workshop p...

•I believe that there are characteristics of piano-specific climate control systems being ascribed which are simply not there. In my experience these systems do not have the power to save or destroy a piano; they are relatively low-wattage devices which are merely there to help to moderate the extre...

•Jeff Alterman wrote: > A word to lawmakers: please use some common sense! Tell them directly. A somewhat analogous problem occurred around 2012 in the European community: A new law would ban the use of lead in all electrical devices. At one point, someone found out that church organs would count as...

•[ Ref. Dave Stevens in 150715 MMDigest I downloaded the free MIDI player mentioned in the 150715 MMDigest. I have not used it yet but did notice a mention that you can select different MIDI devices for systems up to Windows 7. This is probably because Windows 8 made it more difficult to do so -- it...

•Beginning June 16, the Morris Museum will present an exhibition exploring coin-operated entertainment from the early twentieth century. Showcasing amusements, vending machines, and gambling devices, the exhibition will bring together objects from the Museum's Murtogh D. Guinness Collection and work...