•Thanks to everyone who responded to my request concerning how to remove fiber tape from music rolls. I was able to remove the tape using acetone. I chose that product simply because that's what was most easily available to me. I have salvaged the title and number of the roll, and shall do a proper ...

•Thanks to Kelly Goodman for the update to the "sources" list. It's pretty comprehensive, but I'm looking for something so totally off-the-wall that it ought to _never_ find its way onto the list. I'm looking for paper tape, not the wide music roll stock but instead the narrow stock, approximately 1...

•I am sure happy to see that Jim Brady has offered to publish these letters of Dr. Clarence Hickman. I met Dr. Hickman very briefly, and heard his talk in Philadelphia about 1979, I think. He was a very unassuming, modest person with a brilliant mind, but what I was most impressed with was his keen ...

•> [ While I was working at the University of Illinois School of Music > [ (as a computer consultant, not a musician or composer), I recall > [ reading about an audio recorder that had a rotating head that > [ made it possible to change playback speed without altering > [ pitch, or conversely change...

•In 1951 and 1952 I built my first audio tape recorder and it indeed had a three-head assembly that rotated contrary to the direction of the tape travel. I invented and designed and built this machine without having seen the innards of another tape machine or knowing the technique being used by any ...

•Regarding my comments about QRS using Scotch brand adhesive tape for repairs. Some people have written me saying that it's not a problem to use this product. I went to the 3M web site to see what I could find, and they do advertise that it'll remain invisible over time. I guess it might remain invi...

•I'm not a fan of 3M 'Scotch" brand adhesive tape. I wrote an article many years ago for the AMICA Bulletin addressing 3M Magic (?!?) tapes versus archival tapes. I thought this issue was long resolved. The 3M product tape problems are manifold. The adhesive is non- reversible, which means, you can'...

•I have been trying to persuade people to use archival repair tape for mending rolls for some years now, in my capacity as editor of the Player Piano Group's bulletin. It has been quite interesting to find out just how set in their ways some people have got. There have been some nonsensically defens...

•Hello MMD. Since reading Mark Reinhart's article in the AMICA Bulletin, and I agree that it was quite a long time ago, I have changed from Scotch Tape to archival tape for roll repairs. I use Filmoplast Tape, manufactured in Germany. It is very satis- factory to use but I do question one claim that...

•G'day all, This is a topic which has been debated many times in the past but I believe it is so important that it deserves to be updated regularly. I totally agree with Mark Reinhart's comments and would like to add that because such small amounts are used, the cost saved by using general purpose t...

•Greetings and Happy Holidays! I have been watching the MMD lately and seen all the recent write-ups on archival acid free roll repair tape and roll repairs. The great news is that I do stock this type of repair tape for my customers and others who want the tape. The brand of tape I stock is: "Archi...

•During the recent flooding here in eastern North Carolina I had about five days where we could not do anything but sit at home and wonder if we were going to be air-lifted out. During that time I decided to catch up on the roll mending I had been putting off for years. About a year ago I bid and wo...

•Hi Folks. Does anybody know if Filmoplast comes in a iron-on variety? I think that it may, but the young lady at the only agent for the stuff in Tasmania says that it doesn't. However she didn't know that her company kept Filmoplast anyway, until I told her, and I then bought their entire stock: on...

•Go to MMD Archives, Authors, N, Larry Norman, (http://www.home.earthlink.net/~rollertunes/) see postings for Filmoplast and archival repair tape @ $11 per roll, 2 for $20. Tom Lear

•Hi All, While running through the internet looking for more information on piano rolls, I stumbled on an interview with Les Paul at http://www.beacham.com/paul/paul_radio.html. He describes his first multi-track recording as being done on his mother's piano rolls. There is also interesting informat...

•Interesting info on Les Paul. I still think he is the best on an electric guitar. Jim Cook

•Just a note to say that I have purchased the two Orchestrelle tapes from Kevin McElhone, and I must say I am very pleased. The style V Orchestrelle tape is very professionally recorded and packaged and remains my favorite, with a good selection of pop and semi-classical tunes. The other tape, a sty...

•In recent weeks, I have been happily transferring the content of old 8-track tape cartridges over to CDs, using Cool Edit Pro and an old 8-track player I have, that up to now has been working just fine. But this evening, the player ate a tape. Now I have an 8-track cassette with about two feet of t...

•> Am I trying to do something akin to trying to stuff toothpaste back > into the tube? Is there a way of recovering 8-track tapes after such > a discouraging event? Hoo, boy! (That's English for "Oy, vey!") It's very unlikely that your tape machine is at fault. It never hurts to open things up, cle...

•Hi all, Back in the 8-track tape days my folks used to sell 8-track cartridges door to door, to music stores, and at flea markets, to help make the ends meet. The tape coming out of the cartridge was a common problem for some customers. Fortunately the solution is easy. It's weird, but the way that...