•Hello, I'm seeking to purchase perforating machinery, preferably computer-controlled, specifically for producing piano rolls in 88-note format. Would prefer something robust enough to produce multiple copies at once but can consider something with more modest capabilities. Budget up to 25k but coul...

•Hi, everyone, Just found MMD on the 'Net. Been a Mighty Wurlitzer and automatic instrument nut for the last 45 of my 52 years. Time to really get into it! I am looking for a means to recut Wurlitzer Style RJ residence organ rolls. They are 12 inches wide, 9 holes per inch, 105 channels. It would se...

•Robbie commented in 010125 MMD: >[ A typical music roll for a 20er crank organ weighs about 300 >[ grams (11 ounces), same as a medium-size Ampico piano roll. >[ So why does a 20-note music roll cost 50-60 USD but a '100-note' >[ Ampico roll of the same weight is only 15-25 USD? I don't know of any...

•My experience with punched music is limited to the 20 note organ. I have only ordered music through Hal O'Rourke, who is the US agent for Melvyn Wright. According to the catalogs that I have, the music is priced by the length of the selection. Melvyn has worked it out so that a _full_ spool of musi...

•Perhaps I might add a word or two on John Smith's reply to Bob Meyer's comments. The great advantage of the John Smith method of constructing organ pipes is the ability to voice them easily "on the wind". The upper lip, or languid, is applied as a separate part of the front face of the pipe, thus a...

•I've been reading back and forth about different punching machines and that they would be quite easy to build. I do, however, have my doubts, not only about the construction, but also about the machines accuracy and its 'lifetime'. I don't write this to kick off yet another thread about that, but f...

•At the last minute I decided to make a day trip to north Los Angeles, a six-hour drive from where I live. I arrived at the Descanso Gardens on Sunday just after 9 AM. I must say this is one of the nicest rallies I have been to. I had attended two years ago but I missed last year due to being out of...

•It has been two years since I ordered the plans for the John Smith organ. In that time I have built a number of them with all sorts of modifications and changes to dimensions. My efforts and comments are available in the Archives section of this august journal. No matter how exotic or simple an aut...

•Mister Rogers is shown a player piano and he plays a roll. They look inside an Aeolian player. Then they watch a movie on making rolls at the QRS factory with the old three-to-one masters. They make the rolls, the tabs, spool them and box them up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3JYwY6V0M8 D.L. Bul...

•I wish to thank D.L. Bullock for submitting the above named video. It was truly worth viewing and saving. I've got a question concerning the arranger shown working at the factory. Can anyone verify if that person was Rudi Martin? It didn't look like J.L. Cook. Keeping with Q.R.S. arrangers, by any ...

•A question arose about the identity of the roll arranger in the film within the Mister Rogers clip. He looks like Rudy Martin to me. Doug Mauldin, near Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, home of the Over-The-Jumps carousel and the mystery of the missing band organ.

•Hi all, George Karpel had made an inquiry if Rudy Martin appeared in the QRS segment of Mister Rogers. Yes, that was Rudy who had appeared in the segment. Mister Rogers introduced a bit of trick photography in that segment. Mister Rogers or his staff was actually providing the music in the backgrou...

•I wish to thank D.L. Bullock for submitting the Mister Rogers video. It was truly worth viewing and saving. I've got a question concerning the arranger shown working at the factory. Can anyone verify if that person was Rudi Martin? It didn't look like J.L. Cook. Keeping with Q.R.S. arrangers, by an...

•Yesterday, May 25, 1998, I was watching Mister Rogers with my two- year-old daughter. As he came through the door he had in his hand what I thought was a QRS Piano Roll. After he put his sweater and shoes on he showed it, and it was a QRS roll. He took the kids to the music shop where they showed a...

•There have been a lot of recent posts to the MMD about mechanical music in the movies. On Memorial Day, while watching Mister Rogers with my 2-year-old, to my surprise, I received an education on how QRS manufactures rolls. Mister Rogers first hand-played a piano, then visited the local music store...

•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...

•The current issue of Live Steam magazine (Jan./Feb. '03) has an article describing a steam calliope built by Conrad Milster. It is the first in a series and includes dimensions for the whistles he built (he rolled his own tubing from copper). It appears that the instrument is played via a keyboard ...

•Hello Mister Greenfield, your message in the MMD 971115 said: > I have examples of all three types of makers and have developed > my own "Fact Sheets" on these makers as they relate to my boxes. > If you would > like them, give me your fax number, etc., and I > will send you . . . Is it possible to...

•Hello Mister White, there is a workshop in Southern Germany where those instruments are built (the "Tanzbaer"). It's a Mister Blueml in Grassau. Look in the Internet at http://www.drehorgelwerkstatt.de/ Mister Blueml is producing very good instruments. He told me that his handicap is that his Engli...

•In the last Digest Gary Rasmussen wrote: > Mister Rogers first hand-played a piano, then visited the local music > store where he played a newer, studio size, foot-pumped 88-note pumper > player. I could not see the brand of the piano. Hi Gary: I seen that too. I am pretty sure the player was one o...