•I'm looking for the following piano rolls in good playable condition: - QRS 1983 Collector's Christmas Roll Duo-Art rolls by Genevieve Pitot: - If Love Were All. 103015 - Three French Songs. 103128 - Awakening Of the Lion. 72119 - The Happy Butterflies. 71667 - La Juive Fantasia. 73667 - The Whispe...

•[ Ref. Ben Roth in 191222 MMDigest ] Aeolian issued a 4-roll set of Themodist rolls of "Scheherazade", one roll per movement. I have two of them. They first appeared on 65-note form and later appeared on 88-note, in both the USA and UK catalogues. At the moment I don't have all the 88-note numbers ...

•Hey Guys and Gals, Back when I sold a Duo-Art but thinking I might have another one day, I kept 38 special rolls. They are now surplus. 3 College rolls (Dartmouth and Yale) Songs of Sunny Italy Chopin Waltz Op 42 #6618-6 Sousa's Glory of the Yankee Navy (a little known Sousa march) Chopin Scherzo i...

•For sale are four discs for 27" Regina music boxes and changers. Two discs are original Regina discs and two are repunched discs from the Porter Music Box company. (Porter stopped making this size discs several years ago.) Usable discs this size are hard to come by. The Porter discs are copper and ...

•Hello everyone, I'm looking for someone to convert a 4-hand piano audio file to MIDI file for me for a price. Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini" was cut on two rolls by Aeolian, but those rolls are rare as hen's teeth. If I can get that audio piano file converted to MIDI it would be wonderful. The...

•I have inherited a BA Bremond Harpe Music Box. No 17095. It's got eight Airs on the play list. They are: 1. Faust - March et Choeur 2. Le Carnaval de Venise - Variations 3. Les Trompettes du Régiment - polka 4. Fantasten - Valse de Eikoff 5. Silver Threads among the gold 6. Les Grelots - Mazurka Ã...

•Hi Colin, Regarding your MMD posting: > Does anyone out there have any rolls from the Otto Higel Co. of > Toronto, Canada? I have many rather bashed-up rolls, none of which > have boxes or even roll tabs .... I have a couple of small and one large roll, and if you wish I can scan the labels. Most a...

•Robbie wrote me: > Hi Ed ! I'm also a fan of the quaint sounds of Rollo Mexico > -- were the arrangements by Senor Lodoza himself? Robbie, I met Lodoza in 1959 and visited him every time I went to Mexico after that. It was not so much for the new rolls he made, and yes, he did most of the arranging...

•Hello, Saw your MMD posting and thought I'd dash off a few lines. Back in the '60s I issued a few 58-Note rolls for Orchestrelle -- which meant that the division was in a different place than for the player-pianos of that period ... and also the Aeolian pipe organs which used the 58-Note scale for ...

•Just saw the posting about the "Martha Stewart" Steinway Duo-Art program on television, the other day. Not long ago, I offered Henry Z. Steinway, who corresponds with me regularly, a VHS video copy of the broadcast, since one of my musical friends who rebuilds players has a client who saw and video...

•On the weekend I bought a box of unusual rolls which turned out to be Phonola rolls. I have read through the threads on Hupfeld Phonola rolls in the MMD archives. At the risk of going into too much detail, I thought I would add my own observations. Perhaps other MMDers will have some information on...

•Probably all of you know that George Gershwin got some of his earliest musical inspiration from listening to automatic music. In his first biography, he is quoted as saying that he remembers that when he was 10 years old, he heard an automatic piano in a penny arcade playing "Melody in F". This wou...

•In MMD 020708 I asked for some information about mechanical music in Finland. It was Philippe Rouille and Ingmar Krause who answered and suggested to visit Mekaanisen Musiikin Museo, Pelimannikatu 8, 78850 Varkaus, Suomi-Finnland, Directeur: Liisa et Juergen Kempf Thank you, Philippe and Ingmar, fo...

•Hello MMD readers, We have a series of Internet pages, many with music roll illustrations (old and new) about this experimental work by George Antheil, "Ballet Mecanique", including two reviews of a recent attempt to present the work with the aid of multiple solenoid players, at http://www.wiscasse...

•I have followed this thread with great interest and amusement, but my instincts tell me we know about the same of the future of mechanical music as the producers of Flash Gordon or the GM styling studios did of the future of transportation. My first player piano purchase as a teenager was in the la...

•Hello friends, My concert of mechanical music, RoboRecital, will be held in Juilliard's Paul Hall on Tuesday, November 30th, 2004. It will include no human performers. Four robots will be heard: Lemur's GuitarBot, a robotic self-playing guitar; an automated 57-rank pipe organ; a Yamaha Disklavier, ...

•Piano roll artist Hi Babit seeks help to compile a list of the piano rolls he made for several firms, including QRS, Aeolian/Klavier and MelODee. Pieces such as "Nutcracker Suite" were released under his real name, Herman Babich, and most everything else bears his professional name, Hi Babit. He wr...

•Going through my lists, I find the following entries for "Sheherazade": Residence organ rolls: Aeolian Duo-Art, Moller Artiste, Estey, Artona, and Kimball Soloist -- no titles Welte Philharmonic rolls -- Sheherazade, Movements 1, 2, 3 & 4: rolls 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Skinner Automatic rolls: Sheh...

•George Gershwin is one of those composers who, like Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller, requires a particular performance style in order to be effective. Even the composer wrote in the preface to his 1931 Gershwin Songbook that "the music should be free of sustaining pedal" and that the performance ...

•Part One: The Tushinsky Vorsetzers Having now just passed the 51st anniversary of the premiere radio broadcast of "Keyboard Immortals Play Again - In Stereo!," first presented on Los Angeles radio station KFAC-FM the Sunday evening of October 2, 1966, I thought it might be of interest to some in or...