Joe Vitacco of JAV Recordings, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, announces the
release of a new CD, JAV 139, of the 15-rank E. M. Skinner residence
player organ at Elm Court, in Butler, Pennsylvania.  Several excellent
performances of fully automatic Skinner music rolls are included on
this CD.

CD JAV 139, "Organ Music - An Elm Court Musicale", is described at
http://www.pipeorgancds.com/ & http://www.pipeorgancds.com/elmcomu.html

Another CD of this organ, JAV 123, also includes several selections
performed by music rolls, was issued as a double CD set in 2001 and is
described at http://store.yahoo.com/jav-inc/noname4.html  This CD comes
with a 64 page booklet that goes into great detail of how the Skinner
Player Relay decodes rolls, with numerous detailed photographs and
diagrams that illustrate what is described in the text. There are also
several other interesting essays about player organs in this booklet.
(JAV 123)

Both of these CDs can be purchased by going to www.pipeorgancds.com
There are free mp3 downloads available of the organ and a smaller
web site that shows photos and written descriptions of the player relay
and pipes.

  JAV Recordings, Inc
  43 Wellington Court
  Brooklyn, NY 11230
  email: joe@pipeorgancds.com.geentroep (Joe Vitacco)
  [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

MMDigest articles about Skinner are indexed at

  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/KWIC/S/skinner.html

Articles about the Skinner player organ at Elm Court are at

  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200105/2001.05.29.05.html
  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200106/2001.06.17.03.html
  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200111/2001.11.09.03.html

An interesting article about Ernest M. Skinner's activities in the
late 1920s appears at http://www.emskinner.com/

Robbie Rhodes
Mechanical Music Digest