Hi Group, I asked about this several years ago. Things change so
I thought I would ask again. Over the years I have spoken to several
people who were considering building a scanner that could scan
15-1/4-inch wide rolls with 132 nine-to-the-inch tracker holes. The
rolls are multi-tune, 3 to 10 tunes, mounted on 2-inch cores similar
to nickelodeon cores. I wonder if they or anyone else has made a wide
bed scanner?

A few rolls have been scanned and work perfectly on the organ. The
MIDI file operates the stop tabs on the console and the side chest in
addition to playing the note field. The roll scanner used two 8.5" CIS
strips that were overlapped. This worked but required a lot of extra
work to align the scans from each CIS strip to make a usable MIDI file.

I know that many people have made scanners but they are usually for
11-1/4 inch rolls. It is my hope that someone out there has made a wide
bed scanner and might be willing to scan some rolls for me.

At my age it is a lot easier to lift a SD card than change a 15-1/4-inch
multi-tune Reproduco Unified Theatre Organ roll.

Jack M. Conway
Los Angeles, California

 [ Wide-frame roll scanning machines were built circa 2005 by Kevin Keymer
 [ and John McClelland; see http://www.terrysmythe.ca/A4scanners.htm 
 [ Both machines produce image files of good quality but very little
 [ software exists that will convert images of wide formats such as
 [ 2-manual pipe organ rolls into ready-to-play MIDI files. -- Robbie