•These parts were originally nickel plated. Why would you want to have a plating shop apply anodizing or black oxide when you could have them nickel plated? Hint: if you don't keep the beater wires in order, or if you mix up the pneumatics when recovering them, the beaters won't be in a straight lin...

•Hi Robbie, Maybe you can help get this message out to everyone. Wanted: I am looking for a used 22-note rosewood xylophone to retrofit on a Mortier band organ that had been converted to play Wurlitzer 165 rolls. The organ originally played 97-key book music, but was converted some five to ten years...

•I would like to find a skilled music machine craftsman to convert my Edgerton KT-Special reiterating xylophone action to single stroke. If you are qualified to do this, or can recommend a competent and experienced craftsman, please let me hear from you. Thanks! Jack Hardman Great Falls, VA ...

•Seeburg used two different types of repeating mechanisms in their xylophone. One of these had a little metal finger on the bottom of the pneumatic that opened a pallet valve. Remove the finger and no more repeating. The other style used a slide valve. I think the Edgerton KT Special used the little...

•In Digest 980706 Jack Hardman asked of finding a competent person to convert a reiterating xylophone to single stroke for his Edgerton KT-Special. I would strongly recommend Brian Thornton of Short Mountain Music, Woodbury, Tennessee. Brian can be reached at 615-563-5814 or e-mail . Brian's work is...

•Can anyone help me with the following? Were the original Seeburg photoplayer xylophone strikers the same as the Seeburg H? They look like they are 1-1/8" in diameter, made of rosewood. Or are they actually made of rock maple stained to look like rosewood? I'm in need of 30 of these striker balls, d...

•To Stephen Kent Goodman: Try http://www.cherrytree-online.com/ They have hardwood (maple) balls in 1", 1-1/4", and other sizes, quite cheap. Lots of other stuff, too, that the list members might like. Service has been excellent when I order. They also have small toy musical movements. Tom Detweiler...

•The electronics magazine "Nuts and Volts", http://www.nutsvolts.com/ , occasionally prints MIDI do-it-yourself projects. In the October 2000 issue there is the ultimate MIDI project in the robot column: a MIDI-controlled xylophone! The construction article even goes into the details of winding the ...

•The site http://www2.netdoor.com/~rlang/ contains information on building a MIDI controlled Xylophone and a MIDI controlled Harpsichord. There is also information on the restorations of an 1840 square piano and a 1920 Marxophone. I have received good feedback on the electronic circuitry which has b...

•Wanted to buy: Seeburg xylophone beater wires, plated or unplated. Quantity 50 needed (no balls needed -- I have all the balls I need). Must be reasonable or I'll have to make 'em myself. Cheers, S. K. Goodman

•Ray Finch asked where he could get a xylophone. I chopped down a mulberry tree and used the wood from that to make several sets of xylophone bars. I did let the wood dry for a couple of years inside my shop first though. A few years ago I saw two of them and they were still playing. I suspect that ...

•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...

•I am willing to rebuild a Seeburg single-strike xylophone action for the cost of materials and shipping both ways. I need the xylophone to copy. Rebuild would not include plating, but does include re-painting with original Seeburg black finish. Restoration references available. Please contact me if...

•Hello MMDer's! I have a player piano that some time ago I rebuilt into a nickelodeon. It plays "A" rolls. I have a mandolin attachment but not a second instrument. I have decided to add (most likely build) a xylophone, as I feel when I'm playing rolls I am missing out on a lot. I have bell bars alr...

•I built a xylophone for my O-roll orchestrion, somewhat a copy of the Wurlitzer, but with a modification: I added dampers since my tone bars were more like bells and had a long sustained tone. Therefore, two pneumatics per bar. I would be happy to send you the "plans" I drew up. For the strikers, I...

•Although I have never constructed a pneumatically operated xylophone, I have constructed MIDI-controlled, solenoid actuated glockenspiels and a xylophone. The hammer (wood, in my case) must not remain in contact with the bar, otherwise a buzzing noise will result and the tone will not sing out. As ...

•Ray Finch wrote, "Should they strike a xylophone bar briefly and bounce off, much like a piano hammer hitting a string?" I built a electro-mechanical xylophone operated by solenoids and what I found out was that the shorter the contact time between the key and hammer the longer the note would ring...

•Here in U.K., I thought that a xylophone had wooden bars, often rosewood? I also thought that tuned flat metal bars were termed a Glockenspiel? I have a keyboard operated xylophone in an oak case here, and also a Glockenspiel with 25 notes, obviously made for a marching band as there is a leather s...