•Having read the discussion recently about whether MIDI does or does not cause audible timing degradation in music, I did a few calculations: Each byte of a MIDI message takes 320 microseconds to send. A typical note 'on' or 'off' event needs 2 bytes (assuming 'running status' is used, which is norm...

•This topic has been covered in two bouts in MMD, which at least covered the Themodist and Duo-Art differences. Summarising these and adding Welte to the list gives the following : 1. Originally, 88-note Themodist pianos were shipped with stacks divided E/F above middle C, giving 44 notes each side ...

•In MMD 050725 Björn Isebaert asked about old cardboard music books. From the pictures posted under http://users.skynet.be/fa580362/oldbookslabels.htm it becomes definitely clear that these music books are for the 30-note Piano Melodico. I have exactly the same music book labels: Nr. 347: O Tannenba...

•[ Ref. "Archival Media for Digital Data" ] Kevin McElhone wrote: > I have my 58-note catalog (organised by title and by composer) stored > on 8-inch floppy disks for an I.B.M. main-frame computer. I have been > unable to read these disks for 15 years, although I have tried to find > someone with an...

•Hi Group, Marvin Horovitz asked (in 091129 MMDigest) for the layout of the Arburo 88-note tracker bar. It is available in "Treasures of Mechanical Music" by Reblitz & Bowers. 88 Keyless "Arburo" Dance Organ Scale Paper roll 13.75 inches wide, 26 holes per 10 cm. 1. Temple block 1 2. temple block 2 ...

Ron, contact Don Rand about a piano roll of "I've Got To Sing A Torch Song" (from "Golddiggers of '33"). If you phone him expect a long conversation! Don is an expert on the songs of this era -- if it ever existed, he'll know about it. Clark Music Rolls Don Rand 163 Main Street Thomaston, ME 04861 t...

•Another reason for the necessity of a variable speed drive, is that many records were deliberately speeded up or slowed during recording, and editing to make the performer sound faster, or hit higher notes, or fit the time. Many 33's also vary, and between tracks. I learned by playing along, and th...

•Hi everybody. I am new to MMD, but know already that if there is a question about anything musical, I can find an answer here. I am looking for a source of molded musical notes, staffs, etc., to be used to decorate the outside of my trailer that houses my calliope. I play it myself, but with it in ...

•Asking all MMD for help with information for a music box restoration. The problem is a Komet disc playing music box, single comb, 61 notes, that uses a 13 inch (approx. 33 cm) disc. The leads are totally fused together and must be replaced. There is _no_ tuner's mark or any information to be found ...

•Several emails arrived as a result of the item in MMDigest 091202. Here are answers to some of the queries. My organ presently has two ranks of small pipes, 37 Bourdon, and 33 reed oboes, from a church organ, plus a single long folded pipe covering two bass octaves driven by four polyphonic oscilla...

Hello, Thanks Jody, I'll introduce myself to all and I assume that this is the correct address?.!? Hope so. [ [ yes. automatic-music@foxtail.com goes to this digest [ I have a private restoration business in Sandusky, Ohio. I do restoration of pianos, players, reproducing pianos, pump organs, etc. I...

Walter Tenten asked about paper for piano rolls in digest 960111, and just now I received a nice note from his collaborator, Horst Mohr. Along with Dr. Juergen Hocker, the president of the German Society for Selfplaying Music-instruments (GSM), they successfully connected a computer to control _two_...

Philippe Rouille in Paris has mailed advertisements to prospective buyers announcing the auction sale next week of an 84-key Mortier Dance Organ. The auction will be held 12 April 1996, in Chambery, in the French Alps. He says that several people have already expressed interest, even though the inst...

As the person who started the current discussion of the Hofbauer micro-box system, I have another thought to put forward. Im fairly confident that when all the replies are in we will decide that the system is obsolete, but I was hoping that someone along the way had cracked the black box and figured...

For several months I have been looking at an Automatic Musical Instrument that looks like a Grandfather Clock, and which plays large tin discs about the size of the old 33-l/3 rpm vinyl records. As it was with a dealer I had a hard job even getting the salesperson to demonstrate how it played. All s...

I have a 24-key music roll for the 20-key Jeager & Brommer Drehorgel tuned in B-flat (A#), with this scale: F,Bb,C,D,Eb,E,F,G,A,Bb,C,D,Eb,E,F,G,A,Bb,C,D,swell?,x,x,x The paper is 11 cm wide (4.33 inch). I measured 18 holes in 7.0 cm (2.755 inch), or 0.153 inch per hole. Is this note-scale and roll f...

After finally obtaining access to the Internet, I can now talk to others out here that are into mechanical music. Who am I? Funny you should ask. My name is Mike Carey. I have been involved in mechanical music machines all my life (33 years). I think I grew up cutting my teeth on T-bar tubing! My le...

Finally a topic for me :) Mike Knudsen wrote: > Two years ago at the Union IL swap meet I purchased a used 20-note > Deleika monkey/grinder organ, the style that should go on a small cart. > It's in fine-looking shape and beautifully built inside, looking almost > new inside and out. I have a few ro...

•Regarding "harmonic pedal" (was sostenuto pedal). This appeared on rmmp a while back. Does anyone know more about it. I went to the web site but unfortunately I do not parlay francais, un poco espanole solomente. Perhaps someone could fill-in us mono-lingual Americans. > There is soon a concert in ...

•[ Rick Inzero wrote in Digest 980302: ] > ... I still don't see why the speed of Pauline's note playing would > require the roll to be cut at a higher tempo. Hi Rick, Yes, we are talking about _arranged_ rolls when it comes to the Alpert series, viz. Milne and his graph paper methods. Jerky patch-u...