•PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL LISTS/INTERESTED PARTIES: I just received notification in the mail today that the estate of E. Dean Hedman of South Bend, Indiana, an estate including more than 220 organs and Leslies, player organ units, thousands of hard-to-find components, pump organs, pipe organs, upright ...

•I am putting the following out for a friend -- please respond directly to Wes: FS: Estey Reed Organ, Model T. 2 manual with concave pedalboard, 10 ranks of reeds. 5'6" wide, 5" tall, 2"8" deep not counting pedal. Bench and quiet suction blower included. Golden brown oak, no pipe top. Looks and play...

•I was unable to stay all day until 3:00 PM when they were supposed to get to the pianos. I did call the widow Sorrells the following Monday evening and found out that the built-up orchestrion that they listed as a Seeburg G and another built-up with drums in a normal sized upright player piano with...

•Re: 980822 MMDigest Bruce Clark suggests using a roller ironer for drying out damp-swollen rolls. Even the old companies couldn't get completely non-hygroscopic paper, but there are several modern recutters I will not name, especially here in the UK, who cut rolls dry and let owners sweat when our ...

•In 980823 MMDigest Dan Wilson, quoting Pearson, mentions that Maelzel was the inventor of the mechanical chess player. Wasn't that the famous fake that had a midget chess champion inside it? Are we to accept the Panharmonicon musical mechanism on faith, or might it have contained midgets skilled in...

•Re: 980927 MMDigest > > > Those of us with old Windows 3.11, can only use RealAudio 3, > > > and the site doesn't handle that. We get the message that it > > > is not a RealAudio format, because it is 5.0's. > > Alas, I know what you're talking about. I held out against > > Windoze 95 for years bec...

•MEMUSI'98 -- Vienna International Me-chanical Musi-c Festival 1998 The traditional international annual meeting of friends of Mechanical Music will take place in Vienna from 3rd - 6th of September, mainly at the 'Boehmischer Prater' park and at some places in the city (Kaernter Strasse / Graben / S...

•[ Re MMD 980910: MEMUSI '98 in Vienna ] > ... So, I must have seemed very busy just with handling the books > and -- sure, I don't make it too easy for myself with choosing > the next book out of the many boxes that we have -- this must have > been so intriguing to Claus, he thought a little and th...

•Re: Digest 98-10-07 and 98-10-09 Hello Thomas! Yesterday I have suggested to take a comb from a Thorens/Reuge 4.5" disc movement because of the universal balance of notes. I haven't thought about the different damper system of the disc movement. The comb needs dampers; I can't say if it's easy to c...

•[ Rick Inzero wrote in Digest 980302: ] > ... I still don't see why the speed of Pauline's note playing would > require the roll to be cut at a higher tempo. Hi Rick, Yes, we are talking about _arranged_ rolls when it comes to the Alpert series, viz. Milne and his graph paper methods. Jerky patch-u...

•In MMD 980316 John Tuttle asks "What is Delrin?" Delrin is a hard engineering grade plastic. It is trademark of the DUpont company. The generic term is acetal homopolymer. Don't ask me what that means, I'm not a real expert. Suggested applications include bearings, bushes, gears, valves and valve s...

•In Digest 980530 Dave Clark wrote: > Other then problems with tuning, is there any reason why a band organ > can't play in the cold (let's say 20 degrees F)? Has anyone done this? Dave, 20 degrees F is pretty cold. I don't fire mine up if it is less than 50 degrees. That is an arbitrary figure but ...

•In MMD 980623 Bryan S. Cather wrote: > "Jacque Legg" -- Robbie, apparently you don't have a dog ! > > At piano tuning & repair school, any dubious technique was casually > referred to as being a "Jack-leg" repair, referring to the act > frequently performed by male dogs with weak bladders ... ;) > ...

•Re: 980916 MMDigest Dear all, Not to try to steal the thunder of our two eminent translators but: "Treue Liebe macht uns gluecklich - O, Liebe welke nie!" Gluecklich has a second meaning: fortunate; happy. Welke (v) means to whither or fade. It translates better as: "True love - it makes us happy -...

•In MMD 980922, Meta Brown asks "What is a Disklavier Station?" The proper name for the item in question is a "Klavierstation" and it's a device from which Yamaha sells music for the Disklavier. I haven't seen a Klavierstation, but saw a similar device at a Yamaha dealer in Tokyo. You walk up to a k...

•Re: 980924 MMDigest Mechanical Music Digest wrote: > http://www.intac.com/~gbogatko/htmlfiles/technik.html > > George Bogatko - gbogatko@intac.com > http://www.intac.com/~gbogatko > > [ Those without a RealAudio player are missing out. If you > [ have a Web Browser and a 16 bit sound card you are i...

•In 981103 MMDigest Julian Dyer said in passing: > In general, it is now agreed that the distortions and inaccuracies > of the CD are less unpleasant than those of the LP, although it > took some refinement to get that far. Just when digital audio tape was around, which used the same sampling techni...

•Andy Taylor wrote in MMD 981103, "I honestly don't see how Rachman- inoff's playing could ever be judged by an old 78-rpm record!" Robbie commented : >[ We don't have a super Hi-Fi recording of Rachmaninoff for compari- >[ son, but maybe we can make an acoustic recording of Wayne Stahnke's >[ piano...

•[ Re: 981202 MMDigest, New Clear Plastic Tubing from Schaff ] Oh no, a mis-quote! I just had a chance to look at the MMDigest for 981202. Something was lost in translation here. I have only ever used large diameter clear plastic hoses. I never, never, never put them in places like tracker bar tubin...

•Steve McCollum wrote in 981211 MMDigest: > This underground music movement might have remained unknown to most > consumers if it weren't for a lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry > Association of America (RIAA). The suit, filed against San Jose, > Calif.-based Diamond Multimedia, was an attempt...