•I'd thought I'd put my two-bits worth in here since I'm somewhat familiar with both. The Lincoln Park and Griffith Park Spillman carousels were near identical, with the Lincoln Park machine being three years older. The Lincoln machine came with a North Tonawanda Style 188. At approximately the same...

•Here comes my two (copper) cents worth. I have had a lot of plating done for car restoration. My shop guy (Arliss at Advance Chrome Plating in Nashville) says that _all_ commercial chrome plating is so-called triple chroming, involving the aforesaid layer of thick copper for build-up, polishing, ni...

•Much as been said about J. Lawrence Cook's work at the Q.R.S. Piano Roll Co. Most people associate Cook with his thousands of player piano rolls that he arranged for nearly fifty years. However, no mention was made of his work at the B.A.B. Organ Factory where he arranged rolls for military band or...

•G'day MMD'ers, Your help required, please. I'm currently writing the history and catalog of Broadway piano rolls manufactured in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. They were manufactured by Len Luscombe under the Anglo-American company. After chasing details of 3500 rolls, there is one title that I am u...

•I decided this morning to drive to Golden Gate park in San Francisco to visit the "hidden" carousel behind the tennis courts. San Francisco has its best weather this time of year. A bit hazy for a postcard day. The sun was out. The park was full with those who wanted to see the last days of the Old...

•Hello all, I realize that on April 1st, 2007, there is another organ rally coming up in Coney Island, New York, so here is a fundraising idea: have a donation bin for passersby to contribute money at the rally, and have AMICA/MBSI/COAA members volunteer their talents to restore and maintain (and ge...

Greetings, folks. I have a question. I want to purchase some rolls, as a gift for a friend with an (unrestored) pumper. There's a *lot* of rolls available, so I'd like to ask for everybody's personal 'Top-10' titles from the rolls available; in fact, this data could probably go into the (future) FAQ...

•I would love to think that somehow a public effort to keep our few remaining band organs playing for all to hear would be possible. I think that for some reason I was born with a band organ gene imbedded in my DNA. As a child growing up in the post-WW2 nineteen-forties and -fifties, and with visits...

•Some years ago I developed a MIDI file player, compatible with the Yamaha MDF floppy diskette file player, that meets many of many requirements as per the specifications of Mike Ames and Peter Phillips. More recently I have updated the floppy file player system to read and play MIDI files stored on...