I have to take issue with Robbie Rhodes on one detail of his recollections of those thrilling days of yesteryear. He says, in reference to the Tangley calliope: "...on a quiet afternoon in the suburbs it could easily be heard over a quarter-mile away!" I am sure that that particular calliope could b...

> From: "William J. Sheehan" > > I'm starting my project to build a Calliope, and am in the info needed > mode at present. If you have not already done so, you may wish to consider making contact with: Bob Stanoszek 17641 Sagamore Road Walton Hills, OH 44146 (216) 467-8271 Bob is the author of "Tang...

Steam calliope, 32 whistles, chromatic, lowest pitch circa "Middle C", with brass carillon-style keyboard and bellcrank linkage to spring-loaded balanced poppet valves. Powered by 30-horsepower vertical firetube boiler, all mounted within a 20-foot-long rubber-tired circus wagon with ornate facade. ...

Hi Jody, I just came across the note you had in the MBS "Projects and Wants" section some time ago. You were requesting information on a home made calliope that you saw around Issaquah, WA in 1982 or 83. Have you ever found anything about the machine or builder? If not, I am sure that I also have se...

Remember the thread about the Wilhelm Bruder barrel organ in Italy? We received several intriguing photo images from Giovanni Zanin which Jody placed on the Foxtail FTP site. See Digest 970126 and subsequent. The images are at the foxtail FTP archive at   ftp://ftp.foxtail.com/pub/mechanical-music/m...

I believe calliope plans are available from: Bob Stanoszek, 17641 Sagamore Rd., Walton Hills, OH 44146 Also, here is a calliope builder who owns the Tangley Calliaphone name and turns out exact replicas, plus customs, and has the largest selection of special calliope-scored A-roll recuts I've ever s...

Hi from the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. In a previous digest, a member was interested in building a calliope. I dug into my files and came up with a Xerox copy of "Live Steam." The issue featured the building plans for a small hand-played steam calliope. It requires a bit of machining and...

•I have built a Wurlitzer Model 105 Military Band Organ from scratch. After two years and $3000 in material I now have what I think is a very good organ. I used a Dayton blower vice the bellows for reliability. I am now wanting to build a steam or air calliope. Does anybody have any plans out there ...

•In August, 1983, I visited friends in Issaquah Washington. We went to a park near their home where a large steam locomotive was on display. While at the park I was attracted to the sound of a mechanical musical instrument the likes of which I've never seen before or since. The sound was coming from...

•Davis Calliope Works and Custom Systems, 4023 Woodland Park North, Seattle, built the calliope for the Mississippi Queen riverboat. The date on the drawings is 11/12/75. We have been maintaining this instrument and the Nickel built calliope on the Delta Queen for about twelve years. The Mississippi...

•Subscribing to get information for a friend who just bought a used air calliope which uses the 65-note Clark "A" roll. He has several 11-song Clark rolls but is looking for some more containing Christmas music. Any hints appreciated, but I will monitor the digest and see what turns up. Thanks Denni...

•Hello, In the early sixties after the World's Fair in Seattle, Washington, I used to see a circus calliope being towed by a pink Jeep in the summertime. Does anyone up there in the northwest know what ever happened to it? Also, does anyone also know what happened to the Kimball theatre organ that w...

•Hope you can help this fellow. Calliopes are a bit out of my scope of information! Beatrice Robertson --- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD --- From: "James McKenzie" To: Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:21:17 -0500 Subject: calliope interested in locating : (re: calliope) Technical informa...

•I know where there are many operational steam calliopes and would be interested to trade information with you on any you know of. I am on the board of the Circus City Festival in Peru Indiana and we own one of the original Gentry Twin Calliopes. We have a calliope concert every year after our festi...

•--- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD --- I'm with a non-profit production company (gbproductions.org) that specializes in event theater. This fall we are producing The Music Man and would love to be able to have recorded calliope music playing, or better yet, an actual playing piec...

•Robbie and I have long talked about having some new sections within the MMD web site. We've started in on improving the "links" page: http://mmd.foxtail.com/links/ Today we are please to announce the Calliope page: http://mmd.foxtail.com/Calliope/ We're still searching for material for this page so...

•While Jody is in New Orleans on business, and also (hopefully) visiting MMDer Don Elbers, we have been corresponding with several technically- minded MMDers concerning "Steam Calliope Theory and Engineering". Organ-builder Giovanni Zanin, in Codroipo (UD), Italy, sent me this cute note today. Photo...

•A quick question about steam calliopes. We used to visit New Orleans fairly often, and we heard quite a bit of steamboat calliope music from the steamboats tied up at the pier. I was wondering why on earth they were always so badly out of tune. I was just about ready to volunteer to try to figure o...

•Re: 981009 MMDigest From watching one of these beasts at close quarters for a couple of days I conclude that they are naturally out of tune. When the organist starts to play, he/she depresses the keys for a few seconds to blow steam through the pipes in order to heat them up, then starts to play. N...

•Recently on what seem to be one of the hottest days in September, a friend wanted me to tune his Calliope(air, not steam). After spending time polishing the pipes it was time to do the tuning. I started around 7:30 am (I bet the neighbors just loved me that day). As the temperature was rising that ...