•Ref. 070609 MMDigest Hello All! I have read all of your inputs on this matter with great interest, and have also paid a visit to the rebuilder. He has found out from the lady involved that what she didn't tell him was that the piano was in a warehouse for 12 years, until she took over her mother's ...

•This may have come up for discussion before, but how did Seeburg number their pianos? I have seen many over the last twenty years, and they range anywhere from 52000 through the one I saw this morning at a show. That was a KT Special, and it was very clean and complete. The serial number was 161597...

•Hello MMD'rs, I have a friend who has a completely gutted Seeburg B A-roll piano. The instrument is pristine and he did a beautiful restoration and refinishing job on it. The piano itself is a 1916 Edmund Gram. I asked about purchasing it and putting in a digital player and he became very upset. He...

•Hi All! There is a really good book, I don't know if it is still available, titled A History of Midwestern Piano Manufacturing, by Jack Greenfield, RPT. There are graphs and charts, and it is a good chronological history of many of the companies from the beginnings through World War Two. Aaron Carl...

•Hello All! I'm surprised that there has not been more responses to this. Over the years, I have seen several Fotoplayers in various collections. There was a Style 25 that Harvey and Marion Roehl had at their home in Vestal, New York. There was a Style 45 at Pedals, Pumpers & Rolls in Elmhurst, Illi...

•I was out of town, when this post first appeared, but about 15 or 20 years ago I knew a gentleman named Dennis Jensen who did excellent piano and player work up there. I went to visit him and he was very friendly and informative, and willing to take the time to listen and share. He had a few finish...

•I remember that awhile back someone was making a database of Seeburg serial numbers, but I forgot who. Any help? Aaron Carlson 16walnutweiser94@gmail.com.geentroep [delete *.geentroep" to reply] [ Visit https://www.mechanicalmusicpress.com/registry/seeburg/seeburg.htm [ -- Robbie

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I have read much discussion about player pianos, from Ampico and Duo-Art to Disklavier on this forum. There is much debate and disagreement about how well these reproducing systems capture an artist's performance, or if they even come close to do...

•Reyah Carlson asked (981107 MMDigest): > Could somebody tell me what, and where the Themodist is located, > or at least what it looks like, in my piano? I was told it has > one, I am not sure exactly what its function is, and where it is > located... I do know that on some player rolls, the small h...

•Aaron Carlson asks for sources of mandolin rail clips in the 05.06.05 MMD. The first player I owned was a Story and Clark. Its mandolin rail had little pieces of walnut shell glued to the strip and sounded very nice. I was later told that metal mandolin rail clips would ruin the strings. I did not ...

•In MMD 981107 Reyah Carlson asked what and where the Themodist is: The Themodist (Aeolian's trademark), as well as other maker's similar systems like Solodant, is a device which causes most of the notes in a piece to play at a constant, low volume. Certain notes, usually the main melody line as wel...

•- The Kit Carson County Carousel, fairground, Burlington, Colorado: The Wurlitzer Style 155 "Monster" band organ plays only during rides. Rides are given daily during the tourist season once every half hour, for just 25 cents! - Santa's Workshop at the North Pole, Cascade, Colorado: Two band organs...

•For Roger Hughes: I used Schafer Bros. Piano Movers [Carson, Calif.] for moving my K from Florida and they were great. The trailer was climate controlled and the move was flawless in every way. Jerry F. Bacon

•Dave Haibach's posting to today's 110902 MMDigest about availability of the CD presenting tunes from the Kit Carson Carousel's Wurlitzer 155 in Burlington, Colorado, led me to check the carousel's web site. I was surprised to find no mention of the CD; so perhaps it is no longer available. The peop...

•When I last ordered player piano roll boxes, Carolina Box Company (Carustar) informed me that they were no longer going to stock the Alligator paper but they had just enough to make my boxes. The key here is to find out just where _they_ get it from. Good luck in the world of custom orders! Ed Gaid...

•Galen Bird asks about moving a piano from the Sacramento area. I second the recommendation for Brookes Piano Service given by Bob Lemon. They moved three pianos in one day for me, from Reno to Carson City, then to a second story location at Tahoe City, and on to Sacramento for the third one. This m...

•Dear Robbie, yes, here in WALDKIRCH (not Weitkirch) we tried to buy the great collection of Mr. Jens Carlson. Last Sunday all the people of Waldkirch had to decide whether or not to buy this collection. So they voted: not to buy. It's too much money in all. The Jens Carlson collection has more than...

•[ Re 031119 MMDigest "Editing and Expression Coding for Disklavier" Greetings, The best part of Richard W. Carlson's article is the last line, "I only wish people would listen to the music and not just the machines." It is too bad that so few people actually listen to these instruments. The editors...

•Hi Group, I am a docent at the International Printing Museum and I was asked to bring my Concert roller organ to perform as part of "Dickens Day" performances at the International Printing Museum in Carson, California. Using the dating section of Todd Augsburger's "Roller Organs, The Autophone Comp...

•I'm pleased to inform everybody that the song named "The Waltz of the Zebras" on the recording "Music for Carousel Lovers", which features the Kit Carson County Carousel's Wurlitzer Style 155 "Monster" military band organ, has been identified as "Smarty", by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, 190...