•I received an e-mail from the Netherlands, as follows: > Dear Mister Petrak, I was searching the web for a good friend of > my grandfather, Nicolai Orloff, a great pianist and a beloved house > friend. Recordings of his are rare and, although my family has some > private recordings, we are always o...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello Mister Kravitz, my name is Daniel Pacheco, I'm from Chile and I've been looking for information about a Ducommun-Girod cylinder musical box. This item, which came to my brother as result of a relative's last will, has been lately the mos...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- To Mister Kevin McElhone: In my collection of Aeolian 46er rolls for my reed organ style 1500, I found the following rolls marked on your missing title list: [ Ref. http://mmd.foxtail.com/MMMedia/46nAeolianList.html ] 2795 Merry wives of Windsor ...

•I decided to look through the accessible portion of my roll collection for that pristine original copy of "Mister Jelly Lord" played by Jelly Roll Morton that I'm _sure_ is there somewhere. Didn't find it , but I did find an unusual Rythmodik roll for which I welcome comment. The Rythmodik roll num...

•Noteur Wolfgang Heisig sent this further information about the artist and composer, Lyonel Feininger. Thanks to Horst Mohr for his assistance with this translation. Dear Mister Rhodes, Lyonel Feininger was born 1871 in New York city, the son of German concert-musicians. After moving to Germany Fein...

•At a meeting of the Northwest Intl. Chapter of MBSI held at Sechelt BC last weekend, a member inquired about the composers and dates of two songs: "Mister Dooley" and "Sweet Saturday Night". Neither was found in the Directory of Sheet Music Published in America 1825-1875, so I presume they are late...

•Hauke Marxsen and Ingmar Krause provide these addresses of European experts on the Ariston organette: Alois Blueml Orgelbauer im Zacherlhof Achentalstrasse 11 D-83224 Grassau Germany Tel/Fax: +49-8641-1457 Mister Blueml is reproducing Aristons of different sizes, and also near-reproductions of the ...

•> A-802 > 1. Spooky-ooky Blue > 2. Aunt Jemima's Jubilee > 3. Home Again Blues > 4. The Ghost of Mister Jazz > 5. She's Always Singing > 6. Jelly Bean Rag > 7. No Wonder I'm Blue > 8. How Do They Do It > 9. ? > 10. ? In response to Ken Vinen's question about roll A-802, this is not a real Automatic...

•Somewhere in my collection I have this fine ragtime tune which I learned to play from listening to this piano roll: The Aeroplane (Rag and Two Step) Music by Jack Glogau (C) MCMXIII by Will Rossiter US88 65859B I searched for Aeroplane at Robert Perry's web site: http://www.pianola.co.nz/rollscans/...

•Happy 2019 to one and all of my friends in the mechanical music world! To start things off in the new year I thought that I would post this thing that I discovered recently in an episode of "Mister Ed: The Talking Horse". In the episode entitled "Ed's Diction Teacher", Wilbur Post (played by the ex...

> I'm a Band Organ kind of guy and no little about music boxes. My > daughter-in-law's grandfather died recently and left her a small > Thorens music box. It plays disks that are aproximately 4.5 inches in > diameter. The case is walnut aprox 7x6x3". My guess is (based on the > ink on the factory ca...

Philip Jamison asked: > Does anyone have the fax numbers for the Hofbauer and the Raffin organ > companies? In the memberlist of the german mechanic music club and in a telephonbook-database I have found following information: Hofbauer GmbH Rosdorfer Weg 14 37073 Goettingen Tel: **49-551-71001 (from...

Hey! Wow... I had to write somethin' again :) >[ Tell us your thoughts, Jack; would an audience in a concert hall >[ react differently than an audience of one? If the arranger was >[ informed that his work would be performed in concert, what would >[ he do differently? A big audience in a concert ha...

Hello all, Thank you very much for the answers and suggestions to my query, "Music Box Video". Meanwhile I have completed the information -- I have got from you -- with addresses, fax and phone numbers from leaflets, catalogs, memberlists and different Internet sources. Dear Nancy, you have written ...

•[ Editor's note: [ [ In digest 97.03.13 Doug Maulden mentioned a LP recording of [ a Dutch Band Organ. Doug I did ask the documentalist, mr. Schenk, of the "Kring van Draaiorgel- vrienden" (KDV) about your record. He did send me a kind letter, witch I do translate below. I hope this is the informat...

•I vaguely remember an episode of Bonanza. After a cattle drive, the main character was in a saloon in whatever the city was supposed to be. The shot began with a close-up of the character, but as the camera backed away you could see a music box disc revolving. Apparently they had removed both the f...

•Dear MMD's, I need your help: I saw two or three years ago on a German Christmas Market something wonderful for me: there have been about 20 "Santa Claus" hanging on a strip and every Santa Claus was playing on two metal pieces they give a special sound (= Glockenspiel). It pays with a discette and...

•In the MMDigest of 23 March 2000 I told about the new museum, the "Wilhelmsbau", part of the Technik Museum in Speyer(Germany). That report is now stored in the MMD Picture Gallery under http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/wilhelmsbau.html Today I am pleased to introduce you to Master Restorer Gotthard...

•Dear people interested in cylinder movements for musical boxes! In the MMDigest from 7 June 2000 I told you about the Swiss company MAP S.A. (MAPSA). I have seen, now and then, movements by that small company. During my last visit in Ruedesheim I accidentally heard that this company is producing mu...

•Otto Kalenka is looking for discs for his Chordephon (Zither). The discs must have a diameter of 20 inches, with serrated edges. He has already discs with the numbers 2, 169, 164, 178, 296, and 365, and a disc with the title "Marsch der Bersaglieri" on which the number is not readable. He wrote me ...