•An obituary in the Wiscassett paper announces the passing of Danilo Konvalinka, operator of the Musical Wonder House on High Street in Wiscassett, Maine. http://lincolncountynewsonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=7&ArticleID=65588 Steven Bucknam Oakland, Maine

•Wonderful to see so many responses in the field of piano wire and sustain pedal and sound of pianos. One more comment from me: In South Africa, we have tons of old pianos from before the First War to 1960. We have more German pianos than American pianos, and it is a common fact here that the bass s...

•Wonderful to be able to welcome John Farrell to MMD. With the exception of some James P Johnson, much Fats Waller and a little of Jimmy Blythe, there is a subtle difference between actual 1920s jazz playing and modern "traditional" jazz piano which is immediately apparent on playing a John Farrell ...

•Wondering if the publication, "The Nicole Factor in Mechanical Music", is still available? I have a 4 Airs Nicole Freres, Gamme no. 878, registration #27948, that I am seeking any and all available information on. Thank you, Dennis Morley Michigan, USA djmorley0604@aol.com.geentroep [delete ".geent...

•Wondering if any of you all trivia experts have any idea the time frame in which the copper colored Regina 15-1/2" discs were made? I'm trying to determine if these were the original discs that came with latest acquisition. Daniel Davis Oklahoma

I wonder if anyone is aware of a Welte Red test roll - 12 7/8" wide. I'm also interested in turn of the century classical piano Welte rolls. Is anyone out there interested in selling, trading, or just discussing them? Thanks Jody, I really do enjoy the daily postings! ¶ Stacey Bowers

I wonder if any of the subscribers has a nice piece of software to use as a catalog for listing my roll collection. It would be nice if it could run in windows. Also I would like to be able to search for rolls by title, composer, pianist, number etc. I am not a computer expert but could it be sent b...

I wonder if there are any members of the German Society of Friends of Mechanical Musical Instruments on line. If so, can dues of $66 (US) be sent via personal check to Herr Hocker, or must one send payment in Deutschmarks? Philip Jamison

I wonder if we have any readers from The Netherlands or Belgium who are familiar with the organ makers there. I'd like to correspond. Philip Jamison¶ Pennsylvania USA

•I wonder if any subscribers are familiar with Max Geweke of Bielefeld, Germany. I have been told he makes small Drehorgels. Philip Jamison

•I wonder whether John Guy's organ is really a style 150 or whether it is an organ playing the style 150 roll. I thought all the 150's HAD brass trumpets to start with. What say you, Bob Conant?

•I wonder if the name Jack Schott means anything to anyone here on MMD. As I poke around into Wurlitzer history, his name comes up now and then, more often than not in connection with the "Fort Worth Organ Factory," another shadowy entity where some of the early organ recordings are said to have bee...

•I wonder whether anyone can provide a bit of information about Artista music rolls? I've been loaned a collection of Italian popular songs made in New York in the early 1920s, which have a fine selection of labels from local music shops and publishers. I've been working out who actually made these ...

•I wonder if anyone can recommend a way to get a handle on the model numbers of Wurlitzer Band Organs. Bruce Pier gave a good talk at the National Carousel Association's Technical Conference in Pittsburgh in March in which he ran down most of them with a slide show and a tape of each organ in sync. ...

•I wonder if some of you would list your favorite recordings of Band Organ music and sources? Including but not limited to Christmas Music. Thanks. Tommy Forney Shelby, NC

•I wonder if Mrs. Gashinski has any pictures of the Gavioli? In the archives of the Kring van Draaiorgelvrienden (KDV) we have a lot of pictures made in the Gavioli factory around 1906. 110-key models were always built in Paris, never in Waldkirch, Germany. Some examples had a box with additional pi...

•I wonder if MMD'ers are aware of the major copyright law change of last year (or the year before?) that adds another 25 years to copyright term, in order to bring U.S. law into line with that of other western nations? Because of this the 1923 borderline between public domain and copy- righted mater...

•I wonder if one of you readers who intend to go to that MMD meeting in Florida can bring me a very little bit of light oil of the type that is used to lubricate small boxes. I need possibly about a thimble or two of that oil. I am down here in Florida and left my little bottle of oil in Montreal. A...

•I wonder if the problems are related to the goods and the experience of the buyer? I would guess that most buyers at the eBay auction are novices (bidding on anything), whereas most collectors of piano rolls and sheet music and phonograph records have many years of experience with international com...

•I wonder what other subscriber's experiences are of the past year or two as far as prices for mechanical musical instruments go? I think it is worth making a comparison with the field of collecting railway relics: locomotive, station and signal box nameplates, tickets, etc. This is a "first generat...