•Once again I plan to attend the upcoming MBSI annual convention, this year in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If you have any questions or wish to discuss these delightful whistling devices, contact me during the convention, at the exhibition, after my workshop, or at my table during the mart. I will also ...

•I was going to suggest that digital scanning would seem to be the ideal solution to ephemera preservation until I considered the life span of computer file formats and their associated memory devices. Does anyone have any notion of how long the distributed information we keep on the Internet -- say...

•There is an updated version of Bruce Clark's excellent article about regulating the Ampico A at John Tuttle's Player-Care site: https://www.player-care.com/ampicreg.html In the updated article Bruce recommends removing the 1B and 1T tubes from the crescendo devices to cause the expression mechanism...

•The House On The Rock is located in rural Wisconsin near Frank Lloyd Wright's design studio. It started out as a private residence (construction began around the 1920s) and was opened to the public about 1960. This place really rocks and is home to many mechanical music devices as well as the world...

•The consumer power distribution system in Australia (and I believe New Zealand also) is three phase 240 VAC line to neutral at 50 Hz. Domestically, a single line to neutral phase is available at the general purpose outlets, so plug-in devices (e.g., an electric jug) are rated at 240 VAC. Houses may...

•There is an estate sale starting tomorrow in San Diego, California. Among the mechanical music items offered are a band organ, barrel organ, player piano and other interesting devices: https://www.estatesales.net/CA/San-Diego/92120/2347161 5568 Barclay Ave San Diego, CA 92120 David Moskow [ The org...

•I have a foot-pumped Weber player grand piano that I will need to move soon. I have heard sporadically about devices built to aid in the moving of player grands, I believe to help protect the stack as the piano is tilted up onto the skid board. I'm not sure if Duo-Art grands have the same issue. Ha...

•I recently appraised an upright player that has been in the family since new and is now in need of a full restoration. It is a 1917 Wurlitzer upright piano with a Recordo system, but fully foot-pumped, no electric devices involved. The first thing I noticed was the roll motor is a clockwork spring...

•I am trying to collect enough money to buy a waterjet cutter with which I will be able to make a variety of custom parts for mechanical music devices and other purposes. I will be posting a separate email about this. All of my e-rolls and emulations will be on sale at half off for the next two week...

Now that the work of getting this mailing list started is settling down, I thought I'd write a short message about what I'm doing and what my interests are. The "day job" is doing customer service (and some software development) for a company that manufactures large Unix boxes. We sell these as comp...

Jody, This posting to PIPORG-L might be of interest to Automatic list subscribers. Kerr. > ================================================================== > Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 12:53:00 UTC > From: "(Allen Miller)" > Subject: Re: House on the Rock > > While I have only seen HOR in photos, it h...

Just wanted to share my good experience with visition QRS in Buffalo. Use it if you want in the digest. We are in Buffalo on vacation and HAD to go to QRS. It doesn't take very long but there are some very nice examples of automatic music instruments there. They even have a 1995 example of a new aut...

My parents own a beautiful Story&Clark reed pump organ. It has two paddles that swing out on either sides of your knees (while your pumping) that allow you to push out on them outwards with your knees to engage a base octave coupler (with the left paddle) or a treble coupler (with the right paddle)...

Jody,¶ I love your idea of establishing an archive of piano roll data. And I also think that there should be some discussion, about formats, procedures etc. before submitting any files. In my opinion there should be no question about MIDI as "the" desired platform for this project. The MIDI file sho...

I`d like to subscribe to your mailing list. It was recommended to me by Mr.Essl (essl@ping.at). We are an austrian company specialized in building computer systems and control-circuits. We have now finished the developing and can offer a control-system for pipe-organs using MIDI-STANDARD for all tra...

Ref: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:43:07 -0500 (EST)¶ By: BILLCHAP@delphi.com Hi All, Although I rarely post to this forum I follow it often. My job consumes much of my time but when I can, I'll post my background. Like many people, I too am interested in scanning rolls and the Visioneer scanner (also remarke...

To continue the recent discussion about scanning music rolls: I found an interesting component in this month's DigiKey catalog (a mail-order electronic parts supplier). They have a visible laser diode line generator (I assume this is the kind designed for scanning barcodes at checkout counters) for ...

Greetings: Welcome to Brett Mohr, who asked about a test vacuum source a few days ago. If your own lungs are not up to doing all the sucking necessary to test various parts and systems as you rebuild or regulate a player, the old tried-and true device is a vacuum cleaner with appropriate custom made...

> Forwarded from Piporg-l list: > From: James Weisenborne > Subject: Larkin Administration Building The Larkin Company was started in 1875 by John Larkin. His slogan was "Factory-to-Family." The company had a mail order business which sold over 600 products ranging from soap, to groceries, to home f...

Erik Silverson inquired about compatibility in Digest 960313. As I understand matters, the older Yamaha Disklavier pianos will accept only their "native" disk file format, known as "ESEQ". Later production pianos also have a limited capability to accept MIDI files. PianoDisc files, to my knowledge, ...