•I have just finished restoring a Seeburg E, with xylophone. For those of you who are old time MBS members, I bought it from Eddie Fryer many years ago, when he lived in Flemington NJ. It played up a storm until five years ago when it became restoration time once again. Restoration was long, thoroug...

•Regarding Charles Hildebrant's question about the bleeds in the treble octave of a Seeburg E stack. The bleed is equivalent to a tiny hole in the pouch itself. The rule is: * If a bleed is too big, the note won't play. (The pouch doesn't have enough power to lift the valve. A hole in the pouch has ...

•I'm finishing up the restoration of a Seeburg E with violin pipes, that several tinkerers have unfortunately done their best to "fix it up" in the past. With the spring tension that is currently on the reserve and the way the violin pipes are just blowing -- just a shade under overblowing -- plus s...

•Can anybody sell me plans or a diagram of the repeating castanet mechanism as found in Seeburg photoplayer or the style J orchestrion? Or if someone needs one rebuilt, I'd be glad to do it for free (you only pay shipping) so I could use it as a model for making another one. Thanks, Stephen Kent Goo...

•There have been several wall boxes for Seeburg Coin pianos on eBay auction. The enclosed picture shows three Seeburg wall boxes. The two on the left are original and made of aluminum, and weigh almost nothing. The one on the right is a reproduction of nickel-plated brass and it weighs several pound...

•Here are a few interesting pieces of Seeburg ephemera I just picked up and would like to share with MMDers. It's a letter with several enclosures addressed to a Mr. Garrett E. Bacorn of the Royal Doane Truss Company of NY. Mr. Bacorn seemed to be concerned about the cost of electricity eating into ...

•Does anyone know what happened to the Seeburg H that was in the Crystal Bar in Virginia City, Nevada? I am told it has been gone for several years now. Can anyone put me in touch with the present owner? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much, Bobby McDearmon

•I know this will arrive too late for any MMD people to see, but once again a reproduction Seeburg wall box for coin pianos has surfaced on eBay claiming to be an "original". You can compare the reproduction with the real ones on the picture gallery of MMD. I will send more pictures to MMD as time p...

•Dear MMD's, I am rebuilding the mandolin bar on my Seeburg E. Seeburg originally used a then-popular (the 1920's) fastener, a style of paper clip, for the ends of the fabric strips of the mandolin bar. I have been unable to locate anything exactly like them. Can anyone make a suggestion as to a sou...

•Over the past fifty years, I have had the opportunity to look at a great many Seeburg Coin Pianos of all makes and models. There is always something missing from the cabinet front near the coin entry. This is evident by looking closely at the wood surface where you will see a lighter area about two...

•Hello again All, I am restoring a Seeburg "K" with an xylophone and I have a few questions for the knowledgeable out there. My xylophone has the external small pneumatics with the activating levers that cover the bleeds on the backside of the xylo unit. The previous "restorer" (15 years ago) had re...

•Roger, A very likely cause of your problem is that the bellows are too stiff, and that is most likely caused by the silicone seal applied to the cloth. At the very least he should have used orchestrion type sealer instead of bathroom type. Obviously the original restoration was done with cloth that...

•Hello Folks, I would like to thank everyone who helped me out on my Seeburg "K" xylophone questions a few days ago. Thanks to Don Teach and Craig Smith I was able to finish up the repairs correctly. There were two main problems with this xylophone: the small activating pneumatics were old and stiff...

•Another possibility is that the holes are left from the wooden support bar that runs in front of the pipes to hold them stationary. Look for screw threads in the holes. If the pipes were built for a Seeburg Mortuary Organ with piano, then more than likely they are not "nodal" pipes. In instruments ...

•In response to Randolph Herr's inquiry in 020202 MMDigest about the Seeburg MO mortuary piano/pipe organ, here are the answers. This unit uses Seeburg MO rolls, which are multi-tune rolls with perforations spaced 6 to the inch. These rolls are 15-1/4" wide, the same width as Seeburg SSS rolls (or H...

•Seeburg E #155,827 was made in the Seeburg factory, probably in 1922. If the original piano hammers are still present, there is probably a date rubber-stamped on the bottom of the wood molding, somewhere in the mid-range of the piano. The piano was probably sold within a few months of that date. Th...

•Randolph Herr's photos of the Seeburg MO mortuary organ are now at the MMD Pictures site, and probably some more will be added when restoration gets underway. See http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/seeburgMO.html Robbie Rhodes

•The Seeburg Style "L", known today as the Junior or Lilliputian, was known as the "Cabinet Model" on the Seeburg price sheet. There are at least five variations of the Junior case and glass. All the different "cabinet model" pianos, except the Coinola SO, used a smaller scale than the 88-note piano...

•The Seeburg E's roll is driven by a rubber-tired wheel that bears against the larger wheel that is belt driven by the electric motor and connected to the crankshaft that runs the pump bellows. The driven wheel can be positioned closer to or further away from the driving wheel's axle to change the r...

•Dick Merchant wrote, "the driven wheel wants to drift as close to the driving wheel's axle as it can go and stay there." I haven't personally encountered the problem. But, for certain clients who have a tendency to change the tempo a lot, I place an appropriately sized and tensioned coil spring fra...