•Kathleen Cilker asked, "Would 'you' ... install a solenoid player on a piano like this?" I am a Registered Piano Technician and certified PianoDisc digital player installer. Over the years I have installed, in all types of pianos, somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 and counting of these systems. ...

•I have thirty-seven old 88-note rolls I would like to sell, any number at a time. You pick and choose from the list, half of which is given below, the other half of which will appear in the next MMD. I want $2 per roll, plus shipping at the cheap USPS Media Mail rate. Any rolls that don't sell at t...

•[ Ray Bauer's Reproduco piano-organ formerly played in a Midwest [ funeral parlor, and it arrived with a number of music rolls of [ appropriate music. The music sheets are mounted on standard [ 88-note spools, one song per spool, and are stored in small piano [ roll boxes. -- Robbie All the rolls a...

•MMDer Jim Quashnock sent this list of Capitol music rolls that play the Unified Funeral Organ, and Jack Conway merged titles from a previous list. Thanks to both for sharing this with MMD. I'll place this list also at http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/MMMedia/Reproduco/index.html Robbie Rhodes Etiwan...

•Hi all, Frank Milne had quite a musical career working for Aeolian, Aeolian-American Corp., and then QRS. By checking the Billings Rollography, it appears that he started to work in earnest with QRS around January of 1942 (roll 7588). After he started working at QRS, he was asked to update a number...

•Critical Cultural Aspects About the Player Piano on Radio I recently read "Agapé Agape", a novel by William Gaddis. By way of introduction to the author, I attach a quote: "I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the ...

•In addition to commissioning a roll each year for the Wurlitzer 165 band organ, I have also been commissioning a few MIDI-only arrangements that wouldn't ever make it to a paper roll, with the generous support of Andy Park and Glenn Thomas as always. On a non-mechanical musical note, I have recentl...

•The discourse on the Baby Ampico brought out one thing -- these players still reside primarily in the areas they were marketed. I have been a professional restorer for 37 years, and have never worked on one of these until just now. But I have received a half-dozen personal responses from people, mo...

•Dear Collectors & Enthusiasts, Please be aware that there is currently a 'wave' of brand new, made-to-deceive old-looking automatons reaching the international marketplace. The few different variants of this monkey 'hookah-like' smoker which we've seen are purposely constructed so as to allow no in...

•Dear MMDers, It occurred to me that the piano-roll fraternity lacks something. There are many key piano roll performances presumed "lost". We lack a central resource to cross check these. For cinematography there are many projects listing "lost" silent and early sound movies (e.g. "The Vitaphone Pr...

•Much has been said and written about Player Piano Company (PPCo). I will miss them for the few items I bought from them. I have talked with some of my restorer friends with the conclusion that none of us were really buying much more than tubing and some cloth from them. I have been in close contact...