•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello! I'm interested in the street barrel pianos, specifically in the tuning thereof. Would a piano tuner have been employed, or would the player have tuned and maintained the instrument himself? Grateful for any information, Thanks, Gill Green ...

•I am currently trying to tune one of those small Faventia barrel pianos for a customer. This piano has been mentioned on MMD two or three times lately. It is very small (24 x 22 x 13 inches) and plays 32 string notes, with four extra hammers which are used to sound the wood block and triangle. It h...

•I am the owner of a Nicole Freres musical box which dates from around 1828 and is serial No. 7703. It plays three airs and, because it is so early, it does not have a gamme number but it has three separate tune numbers: these are 467, 537, 538. The cylinder is 5" long and it has 109 very fine teeth...

•In the 04.04.25 MMD Kevin McElhone asked for the tuning scale of the Amorette organette. The tuning scale that I have for this instrument is as follows: F G C D E F G A B C D E F F# G A Ed Schmidt

•In MMD 04.04.25 Kevin McElhone asked for the tuning scale of the 18-note Amorette. Ed Schmidt presented in MMD 04.04.28 a scale (why only 16 notes?). The scale of my Amorette is quite different (not just transposed!): E F# A H C# D# E F# G# A A# H C# D D# E F# G# It plays wonderfully, so I guess it...

•I was asked to tune a Wurlitzer Band Organ, a model 125, I think. Before I venture out to attempt this, is there any advice to share? Having tuned pipe organs for the past 21 years, I don't believe that the actual tuning will present any difficulty, but, all the organs I usually tune have keyboards...

•Tuning a band organ takes time and infinite patience. I suggest wearing a pair of ear protectors, similar to those worn by heavy equipment operators or those who work on jet plane runways. You will be able to hear the notes clearly through the ear protectors, and the ears will not become tired and ...

•Because a band organ doesn't have a keyboard, one usually uses a tuning roll in tuning a band organ. You can buy a style 125 tuning roll for around $15, I think, from Mike Grant, Columbia City, Ind. (phone 260-248-8288). Just as tuning a pipe organ is a two-man job, one to sit at the console and an...

•I sent this to a piano tuner at the PTG (Piano Tuners Guild) listserver who hates tuning the tall old player pianos. He is short and has back aches. I thought it might be helpful to some of you on this list as well. -- Original Message posted to PTG -- Subject: Tuning old upright players Since you ...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Thank you everybody for your kind help! It's fantastic there are so many helpful unknown "self-playing" friends all over the world. I got four scales today, now when I see that all of them are the same I really can be sure it is the right scale! ...

•Hi Group, May I pester you with a question? I recently acquired a 1929 Wurlitzer 105 band organ. It has been heavily used and somewhat abused, the pipes repaired with duct tape and Popsicle sticks. When tuning was started it was tuned to A=424 Hz. I asked if it could be taken up to A=440, which has...

•I once owned a Wurlitzer 145 organ and had a copy of a Wurlitzer Owner's Instruction Booklet. The instructions were not very specific, with comments reading such as, "Remove a few screws here and there" (to gain access to the wind bellows). Tuning instructions were something like "Everything should...

•I believe that you'll find in Bob Stanoszek's book the instructions for tuning the Style 104/105 Wurlitzer organ one tone lower than standard. Additional note: the Wurlitzer Style 105 does not have any bells unless someone has added them, but even if it did the tuning to the next lower tone would s...

•In 051102 MMDigest, Jack Conway writes: > ... When tuning was started it was tuned to A=424 Hz. I asked if it > could be taken up to A=440, which has caused some pipes to go crazy > just as they were about to reach pitch. They may just need repair, > as the tuner has been doing as we go along ..." ...

•I have tuned organs at various pitches as best suited for the organ. First check the wind pressure to verify that it is appropriate for the type of organ you are working on, and compatible with and appropriate for the cutup of the flue pipe mouths. Pick a few flue pipes which are in good condition ...

•Further to my earlier comment, my Wurlitzer 145 organ had been dropped. Wurlitzer's successor, Ralph Tussing, built a new case and tuned it just before he died, so I suppose the tuning was as original. In 1977 I had the organ in a TV studio for live music spots. A pianist there attempted to accompa...

•Just a quick bit of input on tuning the Wurlitzer 125 scale. A typical Wurlitzer 105 has a transposed tuning scale. The note marked on the pipe is usually tuned one note lower than what is stamped on the pipe. I learned this the hard way by assuming the note on the pipe is the pitch it is supposed ...

•The Gebrueder Bruder 107 that was under my care for nearly a quarter of a century was comfortable with the "A" at 444 Hz. Having been built in 1914, one would normally assume that it was tuned to A=440. However, any attempt to bring the pitch down was an exercise in futility. They were built and sc...

•[ Ref. "Simple Mechanical Musical Instrument for Museum" Mark Kinsler is on a brilliant mission, teaching ordinary people to build musical instruments, and teachers like myself will be breathlessly awaiting the results. But I can tell you that if the plans include cutting and tuning pipe, you're in...

•The best material for making chime tubes is "bell brass". It is available from brass and bronze suppliers in a wide variety of diameters and wall thickness. It is actually fairly simple to tune if you cut the tube with a chop saw fitted with a metal cutting blade. You'll need a strobe tuner as well...