•"Put ice in your saxes, freeze that trumpets blare; It's too darn hot for a hot tune - Play me a frigid air. Fan your clarinetter, I'm sure that he won't care; It's too darn hot for a hot tune - Play me a frigid air. "The Eskimos would love it, up north in their hometown, But I don't think much of ...

•I have the following items to sell: 1. Wurlitzer style 125 brass trumpet organ, with or without trailer. The organ is basically unrestored but has had the stack and a few odds and ends redone. It plays well. It's mounted in a nice trailer with lights and motor drive. The price for the whole rig is ...

•Maelzel's Panharmonicon was a large barrel-operated orchestrion. The "trumpet" sound was provided by a rank of pipes. Parts of the Panharmonicon are shown on pp. 131-132 of Dr. Alexander Buchner's book "Mechanical Musical Instruments" (Batchworth Press, London, undated, c. 1954). One shows a corner...

•Hi all. May I be permitted to blow my own trumpet (or "tromba" in Aeolian stop nomenclature)? My 1919 Aeolian Pipe-Organ (Op 1431) of 21 ranks of pipes, has been delighting many people for a few years now, and I have had a professional recording done which I am offering for sale. The first CD is ca...

•[ Ref. 050815 MMDigest, "Wurlitzer 105 Trumpet Design" If you ever need replacement reed tongues, blocks, shallots, wedges, tuning wires, you do not have to order on-the-shelf organ supply company parts. You may contact Organ Supply Industries, Erie, PA; Schantz Organ, Orrville, OH; Wicks Organ, Hi...

•Has anyone found it necessary to replace the rewind belt on a Raffin 31/119? The trumpet pipes impede access to the two shafts over which the belt must go. I can see how loosening the upper roller with a hex wrench will allow me to pull the shaft out and slip the belt over it. I do not see how to m...

•This is a postscript to my posting about organ reed pipe voicing [121011 MMDigest, "Reeds for Trumpets"]. Dom Bedos [*] describes a test for determining if the resonator length is correct: Put your open hand over the top of the resonator as if to stop the pipe (while it is playing). It should fly o...

Pete Docter asked if player pianos and animatronics are the same thing. I would say yes and no. However, in the Deuches Museum in Munich, Germany resides the "remains" of an animatronics trumpeteer whose only movement was that of the umbuchre of his leather covered lips while blowing a valveless tru...

I've been working on an Aeolian Style V Orchestrelle for some time. To some extent I need moral encouragement to finish the project -- getting all the air passages tight is proving difficult. But more tangibly, two trumpet reeds are broken. What is the best way to obtain replacements? Thanks for any...

•Hi Robbie, Well count me in!! I think what you fellows are doing is worth lots and I have to say that our company has certainly had good response from the other members. Re the "trumpet parts build" and "organs for sale". Just let me know what the subscription is and its on its way.$$$$ Ron Schmuck...

•Dear MMDians: Wurlitzer roll #6501 style-165. I heard the tune "Impassioned Dream" and fell in love with a certain segment in it where the trumpets took on the main melody. (Sorry I can't be more specific, but I think Matt Caulfield might have a good idea). Anyway, the trumpets blared away in that ...

•Fritz Gellerman wrote: > This scale has two MIDI channels with the bass, accompaniment and > melody on one channel and the trombone, trumpet and drums on the other. > I'm ready to wire it up, but find that there is a one note overlap > between the accompaniment and melody parts. It appears that the...

•Tommy, Generally speaking you are correct in assuming that the lower model numbers Wurlitzer assigned to its organs were for simpler models and the higher numbers (up to 180) were for its more elaborate organs. Complicating the picture is the fact that some models were the earlier brass-trumpet org...

•Hello. Does anyone have information of the Barrel Organ builder Hermanne Bode from Magdeburg, Germany? Also the barrel arranger Max Gewedie from Bielefeld Germany? We have a 49-key Bode trumpet organ in for restoration so if anyone needs information concerning this instruments scale, dimensions etc...

•Dear MMDians, After having gathered up all of my previously acquired data, I found a few photographs I had taken through the swell shades of the Tilden organ. They clearly show the trumpet section for the counter melody as well as the rank of pipes in front of the trumpets. A fellow MMDian has just...

•Dear MMDers, Marc Elbasani wrote in MMD 990218 regarding the Tilden Park organ identity: > ... the Ruth organs of Waldkirch are known to have stopped flutes in > front of the trumpets (as helpers), whereas Bruder organs have cellos. > ... in front of the trumpets, I see quite clearly a rank of stop...

•In MMD 990225, Robbie Rhodes asked: > Is there a characteristic sound which differentiates a fair organ > in England from a band organ in the US? Is the strident brass > trumpet and wood trombone unique to the American Band Organ? First some qualifiers: French organs seemed to have dominated on the...

•Stephen Kent Goodman wrote: > Often times the original rotting machines need full replacement > of parts that don't exist for them... A few years ago I restored a 62-key Gavioli trumpet barrel organ. It came to me as a collection parts in boxes which had been (badly) stored for a quarter of a centu...

•> From: avery@hyperlinx.net.geentroep (Avery Kravitz) > To: rolls@foxtail.com > Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 02:38:56 -0500 > Subject: interested in trumpet and clarinet > > Hello, I am a professional musician and would like to rig up > a trumpet or clarinet to play using artificial lips. Could you > hel...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I appreciate your reply and I am really looking for something new and different. I found a lot of information on the web in regard to "artificial lips + trumpet" (enter this search string at Google) and I was wondering if you heard of the glass a...