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Symphonion (Leipzig) Musical Box Disc Case -- by Karl Petersen (091124 MMDigest) Kelley Automatic Music Co. of Albany, New York Ruth Fair Organ Owned by Meinrad Dominikus Stey -- by Wolfgang Brommer (090718 MMDigest) Stolen Musical Boxes in UK 16 April 2009 -- by Kevin McElhone (090418 MMDigest) Wurlitzer Style 148 Band Organ Brass Pipes -- by Bill Klinger (090411 MMDigest) Calliope at New York Museum of Transportation -- by Craig Smith (090120 MMDigest) Wurlitzer Tracker Bar of Solid Brass -- by Christian Wittmann (090113 MMDigest) Wurlitzer Tracker Bar of Acrylic Plastic -- by Bruce Miller (090111 MMDigest) Gathering of Molinari Barrel Organs -- by Craig Smith (080718 MMDigest) Sign "The Duo-Art Pianola Reproducing Piano" -- by Andy Ott (080623 MMDigest) 20-note Punching Machine Built With Meccano -- by Christofer Noering (080622 MMDigest) Triphonola in Roenisch Grand Piano -- by Mario Solimbergo (080618 MMDigest) French Cylinder Organ in Thomasville, Georgia - by Melissa Sanford Endless Music Strip In Coin Piano -- by Bob Conant (070725 MMDigest) Who Invented the Electric Player Piano? Patent by Antoine and Charles Cros -- by Francoise Dussour (070703 MMDigest) Electrova Post Lamps -- by Jon Fortunato (070608 MMDigest) Dulciphone Organette Musical Sewing Machine Cover -- by Leslie Hoffman Unknown Player Action in David Moore Piano -- by John A. Tuttle (070325 MMDigest) Mason & Hamlin Concert Grand Ampico -- by Bob Taylor (070319 MMDigest) Unknown Player Action in Heintzman Piano -- by John A. Tuttle (070316 MMDigest) Hot Hide Glue Headache -- by John A. Tuttle (070315 MMDigest) Possible Photoplayer Pipes -- by Herb Crandell (070301 MMDigest) J. Lawrence Cook - Perforated Music Roll Specialist -- by Ken Vinen (070222 MMDigest) Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Buys Wurlitzer 165 -- by Matthew Caulfield Repairing a Broken Tracker Bar -- by Craig Smith (070211 MMDigest) 1923 Kimball Player Action with Fast Forward -- by John A. Tuttle (070207 MMDigest). Carousel Organs at Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley, California -- compiled by Robbie Rhodes Auto-Electric Coin Piano Friction Disc Drive -- by Philip Jamison (060727 MMDigest) Early Wurlitzer Pianino Has Wind Motor -- by Don Teach (060708 MMDigest) Synthesized Fairground Organ With Real Percussion -- By Andy LaTorre (050710 MMDigest) 5.5" Cardboard Disc Plays Christmas Bell-Lites -- by Bill Wineburgh (060623 MMDigest) Unknown Piston Airmotor -- by Randolph Herr (060619 MMDigest) Jake's Painted Player Piano -- by Craig Smith (060526 MMDigest) Strange Coin Mechanism in Olympia Musical Box -- by Craig Smith (051207 MMDigest) Swiss "ST" Musical Box Plays 23.8 cm Disc -- by Matthew Caulfield (050915 MMDigest) Mikune Band Organs -- by Vic Searle, Toyko Cotton Thread Secures Piano Rolls -- by Christine Robinson (050911 MMDigest) MIDI-Controlled Chamber Organ by David Leach -- by Phil Dayson (050426 MMDigest) Seeburg Celesta Super Orchestrion -- by Stephen Kent Goodman (050413 MMDigest) Reading the Pinned Music of an Organ Barrel -- by Craig Smith (050306 MMDigest) Barrel Organ Pipes Restored by OSI -- by Craig Smith (050306 MMDigest) Louis Bacigalupi (Bacigalupo): organ builder, wrestler, actor, herpetologist -- recollections by Thom Yaras (050315 MMDigest) "Volks-Klavier" Self-Playing Zither -- by Christian Greinacher (050223 MMDigest) Mystery Player Piano Action Stack Plays 65 Notes -- by Paul Manganaro (050223 MMDigest) List of Tunes for Capital Cuff Music Boxes -- by Kevin McElhone & Lelland Fletcher Gavioli "Guitharmonie" Barrel Reed Organ -- by Craig Smith & Hans van Oost Visual Effects in Mechanical Music Instruments -- by Johan Liljencrants (050123 MMDigest) Unknown Player Action in Chassaigne Freres Piano -- by John A. Tuttle (041226 MMDigest) International Karakuri Contest -- by Kazuo Murakami (041207 MMDigest) Reuge Musical Rocking Chair Movement -- photos by Robbie Rhodes J. W. Whitlock Violin Playing Machine -- by Mark Reinhart (040827 MMDigest) Mystery Fair Organ Plays Wurlitzer 165 Music Rolls -- by Jack M. Conway (040804 MMDigest) Aeolian Organ Factory in Garwood, New Jersey -- by George Bogatko (040802 MMDigest) Unknown Scene on Interchangeable Cylinder Musical Box -- by Ralf Smolne (040617 MMDigest) Unknown Player Action in Haddorff Piano -- by John A. Tuttle (040521 MMDigest) Animated Figures on German Christmas Music Box -- by Karl Petersen (040516 MMDigest} Tiffany "Flower Girl Nr. 3" Musical Automaton Is Fake -- by Christian Greinacher (040515 MMDigest) Tiffany "Flower Girl" Musical Automaton Is Fake -- by Christian Greinacher (040419 MMDigest) Sankyo 20-Note Paper Strip Movement in Model Organ -- by Christian Greinacher (040412 MMDigest) Nicole Freres Pocket Watch -- by Brian Chesters (040328 MMDigest) Cremona Case Restoration -- by Bob & Sonja Lemon (040320 MMDigest) German Organ Clock Plays USA Civil War Tunes -- by Vincent Morgan (040316 MMDigest) Nickelodeons That Play Style 'A' Rolls -- by Don Teach (040306 MMDigest) Welte Vorsetzer Includes Tracker Bar Pump -- by Randolph Herr (040108 MMDigest) Sterling Miniature 61-note Player Piano -- by John McClure (031220 MMDigest) Exhauster Pump With Bellows Outside the Frame -- by Bill Chapman (031212 MMDigest) Collecting Mechanical Musical Toys -- by Beatrice Robertson Smith Lyraphone Pneumatic Power Roller Push-Up Player -- by Ray Fairfield Stella Oiler (Stella Discs Must Be Lubricated Every Playing) -- photos courtesy Lelland Fletcher and Ken Vinen Tiffany "Flower Girl" Musical Automaton -- by Christian Greinacher (031125 MMDigest) Power roller instruments: Hupfeld, Pianotist, Pianovo, Lyraphone Gavioli 44-key "Gavioliflute" Organ No. 2049 -- by Hans van Oost (031026 MMDigest) Gavioli 38-note "Harmoniflute a Trombone" Organ -- by Marc Kaufman (031025 MMDigest) 48-key Dutch Street Organ "Winnie the Pooh" Stolen -- by Stephen Simpson (031007 MMDigest) "Das Eichhörnchen" Dutch Street Organ by Pluer -- photos courtesy Rick Inzero Wurlitzer 125 Band Organ Plays on Canada's Independence Day -- by Ken Vinen Odd Retrofit Piano Player System of Circa 1900 -- by Philip Jamison (030817 MMDigest) Band Organ at King's Dominion Park, Doswell, VA -- by William Griswold Jr. (030816 MMDigest) Wilcox & White Recording Piano -- by Dave Krall (030807 MMDigest) Simple Orchestrion Coin Mechanism -- by Zach Goldstein (030805 MMDigest) Gebrüder Bruder 52-key Organ at Sydney Carousel -- by Neil Palmer (030804 MMDigest) Peerless Model D -- by Don Bryant (030725 MMDigest) Rönisch Claviola 88-Note Player Piano -- by Robbie Rhodes, photos by Colin Campbell Barrel Piano by Henri Basile of Brussels -- by Björn Isebaert (030423 MMDigest) New Edison Cylinder Recording of Street Organ -- by Philip Jamison (030409 MMDigest) Small Steinway Box -- by Randolph Herr (030322 MMDigest) Player Action in Canadian Gourley Piano -- by Herb Huestis (030319 MMDigest) Duo-Art Push-Up Player by Douglas Heffer -- photos by Joyce Brite (030308 MMDigest) Homemade "O" Roll Orchestrion -- by Steve Bentley (020908 MMDigest) Homemade 'Pistonola' Player Action -- by Steve Bentley (000226 MMDigest) Homemade O-roll Perforator -- by Steve Bentley Mills Electric Piano & Violano in 1923 Music Trade Review -- courtesy Don Teach Coin Catcher for Coin-op Regina -- by Jere Ryder (030123 MMDigest) Music Roll Has Center Sprocket Holes -- by Philip Jamison (030116 MMDigest) Cremona Orchestrions made by Marquette Piano Co. -- catalog images courtesy Don Teach Rueckenklavier Back Piano Plays Turkish Songs -- by Christian Greinacher (021218 MMDigest) Edison Phonograph Musical Box -- by Tim Morsher (021208 MMDigest) Regina Hexaphone Coin Operated Phonograph -- courtesy Jack A. Conway Street Organ Music & the Savoyards -- by Philippe Rouille (021030 MMDigest) MBSI Exhibit at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT. -- contributed by Jere Ryder Paul Eakin's 52-key Gasparini "Gypsy Queen" -- by Jim Welty (021023 MMDigest) Storlien Mystery Barrel Organ -- by Philip Jamison (020906 MMDigest) Musée Mécanique in San Francisco -- by Vincent Morgan (020808 MMDigest) "Mécanophone" French Air Horn Calliope -- by Philippe Rouillé (991230 MMDigest), photos courtesy Han van Oost Mechanical Music in Finland -- by Christian Greinacher (020715 MMDigest) Triola Instruction Manual and Roll List -- courtesy Ron Perry (020706 MMDigest) Steck Tracker Bar With Extra Slots -- by John A. Tuttle (020702 MMDigest) Welte Orchestrion at Zaharako's Confectionery -- by Rick Inzero (990830 MMDigest) Nechada Barrel Organ, Odessa -- by Robbie Rhodes (020621 MMDigest) & Nic Iljine (021111 MMDigest) Repairing Wandering Holes in a Music Roll -- by Joyce Brite (020524 MMDigest) Advertisements in National Association of Piano Tuners' Journal -- images courtesy John Rhodes Seeburg E picture from early Seeburg Catalog (JPEG, 76 kb) -- courtesy Don Teach Suspended Pipe Organ in Cologne Cathedral -- photo (JPEG, 42 kb) courtesy John Page Nelson-Wiggen Full Orchestra Keyboard Piano, Style 7 (nelsonwiggenS7.jpg 41 kb) -- courtesy Don Teach Mills Violano-Virtuoso "Eight Greatest Inventions" Card -- courtesy Don Teach Fake Monkey Automatons -- by Jere Ryder (020327 MMDigest) Keyboard Violin "Monocorde" by V.-J. Poussot -- by Christian Greinacher (020326 MMDigest) Cast Valve for Player Piano Resembles a Locomotive -- by Robbie Rhodes (020325 MMDigest) Telescoping rod holds keys while restringing -- courtesy John A. Tuttle (020325 MMDigest) "Cine Rai" Film Strip Projector Organette -- by Christian Greinacher (020323 MMDigest) Seabreeze Park Carousel Organ -- by Rick Inzero Pianovo Barrel Piano Resembles Pianotist -- by Kevin McElhone and Hans van Oost Haarlem Museum "het Kunkelsorgel" Demonstration -- by Jan Kees de Ruijter (020316 MMDigest) Band Organ Maker Robert Heilbuth of San Francisco -- by Doran Wittelsbach (020309 MMDigest) Rolmonica Player Harmonica -- photos by Ingmar Krause Seeburg Mortuary Organ -- photos courtesy Randolph Herr 1902 Pianola Concert Centenary -- by Adam Ramet 'Sur Plateau' Musical Pocket Watch -- courtesy Brian Chesters (020225 MMDigest) Euphonium Player Reed Organette -- by Christian Greinacher (020223 MMDigest) & Nicholas Simons (020224 MMDigest) Pierre Van Roy of Belgium -- by Bjorn Isebaert (020204 MMDigest) Barrel Piano by E. Mazzoletti of Belgium -- by Bjorn Isebaert (MMD 020131) Empress 15.5" Concert Grand Music Box Restored -- by Larry Wilson (020127 MMDigest) Electric Self-Playing Piano Co. -- by Bob Kerstein (020116 MMD) Unknown Music Box Rotating Base -- by Joy McNally (MMD 020111) Music Box Rotating Base is Christmas Tree Stand -- by Hauke Marxsen, Christian Greinacher, Ralph Heintz (MMD 020112), photos by Christian Greinacher Cast Iron Cup for Musical Christmas Tree Stand -- by Gary Stevenson (MMD 020114) QRS Phonograph Model 15 -- by Jane Furlow (MMD 020110); additional photos courtesy Barry Kasindorf. Mechanical Music in Drawings -- Drawings and cartoons featuring mechanical musical instruments Music Rolls by Vicente Beltran of San Antonio, Texas -- by Ed Gaida (980324 & 011130 MMDigest) Wurlitzer 164 Band Organ "The General" -- photo by Jim Kenney (011105 MMDigest) Coinola Midget Orchestrion -- by Don Teach Street Piano by Luis Casale, Barcelona -- by Jere Ryder (011101 MMDigest) MBSI Mechanical Music Exhibit in Camden, NJ -- by Jere Ryder (011030 MMDigest) Moving Player Grand Pianos -- by John A. Tuttle (011003 MMDigest) Nickelodeon Wall Boxes -- by Don Teach Salzburg Stier Barrels at Utrecht Museum -- by Ralph Schultz (011002 MMDigest) Copper Tubing in Lauter-Humana Player Piano -- by John A. Tuttle (010920 MMDigest) Duo-Art Cam-Operated "Steamboat" Pump -- by Richard Vance (010911 MMD) 65-key Gebrüder Bruder Elite Orchestra “Apollo” Organ at Coney Island Carousell -- by Jeff Alterman Barrel pianos by Charles Romano & Theodorus Bruylandt -- by Bjorn Isebaert (010810 MMD) data and photos from books by Stéphane Godfroid World's First Self-Playing Tuba - Das erste selbstspielende Tuba der Welt -- by Robbie Rhodes Self-Playing Tuba in Cologne -- photos by Keith Reedman [010905 MMD] Action Swing for Baby Ampico -- by Craig Brougher Lauter Tubing Diagram, Tracker Device & Spindle Lock -- by John A. Tuttle (010810 MMD) Coin-Operated Barrel Orchestrion by Romano -- by John A. Tuttle (010806 MMD) Thorens Catalog No. 45 of April 1953 -- courtesy Hauke Marxsen Thorens Catalog No. 44 of August 1952 -- courtesy Hauke Marxsen Perforator for 20-Note John Smith Busker Organ Rolls -- by Ed Gaida (010712 MMD) Summer Class on Arranging Street Organ Music, conducted by Jean Potteck in Le Fraysee, France -- by Robbie Rhodes (010605 MMD) Spool Frame for Caliola Project (JPEG image, 24 kb) -- photo courtesy Julie Porter (010530 MMD) 80-Keyless Gebr. Bruder Organ from Mike Kitner Estate (JPEG image, 125 kb) -- photo courtesy Rick Cooley (010528 MMD) Prinsen Organ at Dutch Festival in Memphis (JPEG image, 49 kb) -- photo courtesy Philip Jamison (010516 MMD) 1926 QRS Advert for "Real Blues" Recordings -- by Robbie Rhodes (010421 MMD) Collen-Broadway Pneumatic Player Piano Action -- by Françoise Dussour (010324 MMD) Wilhelm Bruder Soehne Model 79 Organ in UK -- by Andrew Leach (010307 MMD) Piano Executant Artiste by Thibouville -- by Lorraine Aressy (010306 MMD) Piano Executant Artiste book music (JPEG image, 45 kb) -- photo by Brian Chesters (010228 MMD) Seek Identification of Rollframe Part (JPEG image, 33 kb) -- photo by Julie Porter (010214 MMD) Duo-Art Supplement in 1922 Harper's New Monthly -- by Terry Smythe (010131 MMDigest) Odeola Player Piano Action in Klein Piano -- by Jean-Pierre Jouandet (MMD 010201) Mike Kitner Tribute in "Maine Antique Digest" (GIF image, 71 kb) -- courtesy Philip Jamison (010127 MMD) l'Odeola Piano Pneumatique -- par Lorraine Aressy (010125 MMD) Odeola Player Piano Action (French) -- by John Tuttle (MMD 010123) Coinola "Cupid" Nickelodeon -- by Al Pebworth (MMD 010124) Peterson Bottle Organ -- pamphlet at NAMM show, Anaheim CA, 19 January 2001 Duplex Roll Player by Lee Music and Mfg. -- courtesy William A. Filler (010116 MMD) "Lawrence Welk's Music Maker" Organette -- by Lou Kretchek and Dean Randall (001119 MMD) Irving Caesar Recollections & "Ka-Lu-A" -- by Randolph Herr (001114 MMDigest) 24-key Ariston Organette -- by Ingmar Krause (001112 MMD) Church Barrel Organ -- by Brian Chesters (001111 MMD) Milton "Tom Thumb" Piano -- by Phyllis Haynes (001109 MMD) Wurlitzer Caliola With Upside-Down Brass Pipes -- by Jim Kenney (001104 MMD) 15.5" Polyphon Has No Dampers -- by Wayne Finger (MMD 001105) J. Lawrence Cook Family -- by Mike Meddings (MMD 001007) Player Piano Horror Story -- by John A. Tuttle (MMD 001002) Rebuilding Duo-Art Steamboat Pump -- by John A. Tuttle (000927 MMDigest) Musical Boxes klokkespil.jpg (123 kb) -- courtesy Nicolaj Roos (000919 MMDigest) Polyphon Horror Story -- by Michael Woolf (MMD 000902) Water Organ at Moldova National Museum, Romania -- by Lenuta Chirita (000818 MMDigest) Chein Melody Player Music Roll Drive -- photo by David Snelling (000817 MMDigest) Lauter-Humana Air Motor Pouch Rebuilding Tools -- by John A. Tuttle (000816 MMDigest) "Taj Mahal" 101-key Mortier Dance Hall Organ -- photos by Craig Robson Gem Organetta with Brass Music Roll -- by Brian Chesters (000731 MMD) "De Negentiger" Dutch Street Organ by Carl Frei -- by Hans van Oost (000727 MMD) More MMDers Around the World -- photos by Richard Vance Bob Essex MIDster Punch -- by Craig Johnson Welte Style 2 Cottage Orchestrion, formerly at Callart House in Inverness-shire -- by Jonathan Holmes (000710 MMD) 52-Key Gasparini Organ "Gypsy Queen" -- Tony Marsico (000712 MMD) Seeburg Sales Ephemera -- by Mark Forer European "Rolla Artis" Piano Rolls -- by John Phillips (000706 MMD) Piano Roll Repair Table -- by John Phillips (961218 MMDigest) Technisches Museum Wien - Technical Museum of Vienna -- text & photos by Thomas Henden Michael Welte Flute Clock -- by Gerhard Dangel-Reese Seeburg Wall Boxes -- by Don Teach Unique Cylinder-Played Music Box Piano -- by Christian Greinacher Seeburg Style L Automatic Orchestra -- courtesy Don Teach Nelson-Wiggen Style 6 Nickelodeon -- courtesy Don Teach Mills Violano-Virtuoso-- courtesy Don Teach Sheet Music Advertises "The Sterling" Player Piano -- by Damon Atchison (000416 MMD) Gotthard Arnold, Master Restorer of Bad Schönborn, Germany -- by Hauke Marxsen The Wilhelmsbau Museum in Speyer, Germany, a new museum for self-playing musical instruments -- by Hauke Marxsen "Isis Playing the Zither", Automaton by C. E. Nixon -- by Hal Davis Marantz Pianocorder -- article in Electronic Design magazine, courtesy Mike Knudsen Autopianos and Battleship Row -- by Harvey Roehl Boyd Pistonola Player Action -- The mechanism is ingenious, being the smallest player action ever devised. Contributed by David Evans, Keith Pritchett, Richard Vance. Apply Varnish Transfer Decals with White Glue -- by Don Teach Percy Grainger's Piano -- Harvey and Marion Roehl at Percy Grainger Museum in Melbourne, Australia Player Piano Pocket Knife-- courtesy Harvey Roehl "Artisan Bandbox" Percussion Attachment -- by Tony Leo (MMD 000216) Looff Carusel at Whalom Park, Luneburg Massachusetts -- photos courtesy Mark Chester The Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano, images and newspaper articles courtesy Gerhard Dangel-Reese, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg Reservoir and pressure governor for Welte original grand piano -- sought by Tony Marsico Four Active QRS Artists: George Bogatko, Bob Berkman, Hi Babit, Max Morath -- courtesy G. Bogatko Street Organs in Belgium and The Netherlands -- by Adam Ramet Pianola Lessons at Hickie and Hickie Ltd. (UK) -- by Adam Ramet Tying a Knot in a Piano String -- by Art Reblitz, John A. Tuttle & Jon Page Making Wound Bass Strings -- by John A. Tuttle Hooghuys Organs in Belgium -- by Bjorn Isebaert Wurlitzer Style 50 Band Organ ("The Kiddie Organ") -- by Hal Davis & Dan Robinson Wurlitzer Style 103 Band Organ -- by Hal Davis Cut Music Rolls With Laser Beam -- by Paul Ward Siren Frequency Counter Measures Organ Pipe Frequency -- by Hans van Oost Player piano on Wills's Cigarettes "Famous Inventions" card circa 1915 (97 kb) -- courtesy Ian McLaughlin 178-hole tracker bar for Kastner Autopiano -- courtesy Iñigo Perez-España, Madrid MIDI Controller for Hofbauer 37-key Street Organ -- courtesy Claus Kucher Organ Pipe Repairs (Rats ate them!) -- by Vicki Webb Unknown 38-Note Cylinder Music Box -- by Christian Greinacher Welte Philharmonic 9-Rank Player Pipe Organ -- by Kyle B. Irwin Music Roll Cupboard Design -- by John Phillips Seeburg Catalog of Automatic Instruments -- courtesy Don Teach. High quality color images for printing. Transparent 20-key Belly Organ -- by Robbie Rhodes. "Die durchsichtige 20er-Bauchorgel" and organ grinder Ron Bopp. 1925 Super-Simplex Player Action Advertisement -- courtesy Gabe Della Fave Jäger & Brommer Transparent 20-key Belly Organ -- by Robbie Rhodes Empress Electric Cabinet Player -- courtesy Ed Gaida MMDers Around the World -- photos of MMD authors. Early Weber Duo-Art Upright -- courtesy Mario Solimbergo Wurlitzer 157 Facade Replica -- courtesy Tom Grace Ben Franklin's Glass Harmonica at Franklin Institute, Philadelphia -- courtesy Ed Gaida "Het Snotneusje", the bravest organ of the Netherlands -- by Hans van Oost Cast Metal Music Box -- by Christian Greinacher Mechanical Organs of Mirecourt-- by Françiose Dussour Repairing Reed Organ -- by John Dewey Coinola Style SO Orchestrion -- courtesy Don Teach Coinola Style CO Orchestrion -- courtesy Don Teach Encore Automatic Banjo -- courtesy Don Teach The Great Dorset Steam Fair -- photo courtesy Hans van Oost Wurlitzer Automatic Harp -- courtesy Don Teach Chickering Cabinet Player Piano (67 kb) -- courtesy Don Teach Wurlitzer Tonophone Poster "Collecting the Take" (113 kb) -- courtesy Don Teach Coinola Advertising Postcards & color poster -- courtesy Don Teach "Memory Lane Special" Coinola when it was on exhibit at Paul and Laura Eakins' Gay 90's Melody Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. (112 kb) -- courtesy Brian Smith Player Piano Advertisements -- courtesy Damon Atchison Mills Tune Card "New Violano Music" -- courtesy Don Teach Solar Eclipse Telescope Controlled by Music Roll -- by Robbie Rhodes Music Box Plays Self-Punched Paper Strips (92 kb) -- courtesy Hauke Marxsen Gavioli Residence Pipe Organ -- by Rick Cooley Monkey Violinist Automaton in San Jose, California -- courtesy Marc Kaufman Wurlitzer Style S Nickelodeon -- courtesy Hal Davis "Spirit of Independence" - A New Orchestrion -- by Craig Brougher "De Poppenspaeler" 47er Drehorgel von Frederic Keller -- by Robbie Rhodes Player Piano Transmission Repaired Via the 'Net -- by John A. Tuttle Edison Phonograph Ad in Cosmopolitan Magazine -- by Damon Atchison Dual 88-Note Spoolbox Unit -- by Dick Beery De Dulciaan Speelt -- New CD Cover Artwork -- by William Kenney Temecula CA Organ Rally 15-16 May 1999 -- photos by Robbie Rhodes QRS Music Roll Company Tour in 1975 -- by Hal Davis Player Piano Actions -- Bush & Lane action courtesy Ed Gaida "Kai Orgel" Barrel Piano of Netherlands Antilles -- by Ed Gaida Music Roll Perforator at Precision Music Rolls -- by Dave Saul Music Roll Reader & Perforator at Custom Music Rolls, Richardson TX -- by Richard Tonnesen Label of "The Pearls", Vocalstyle 50488, played by Jelly Roll Morton -- courtesy Karl Ellison High resolution (pearls1.gif 153kb) Low resolution (pearls1a.gif 12kb) Seeburg K Art Glass "Dancing Girl" -- by Don Teach Gasparini Handle Reproductions-- by Philip Jamison Barrel-Operated 20-key Reed Organ -- by Wolfgang Brommer The "Taj Mahal" 101-key Mortier dance hall organ. -- photo by Hathaway and Bowers. Push-up Piano Players and Vorsetzers -- by Robbie Rhodes Aeolian Keytop Player Ad, circa 1950 -- courtesy Dave Kerr Photos from John Tuttle (Player-Care) -- courtesy John A. Tuttle Robbie Rhodes, Jody Kravitz & Beatrice Robertson -- at MBSI meeting in Solana Beach CA, 13 Feb 1999. Photo courtesy Kathleen Eric. Welte Remote Pump -- by Vicki Webb "Melodette!" -- A player glockenspiel from 1873, courtesy Philip Jamison Standard Pneumatic Action Company -- by Robbie Rhodes Portable Reed Organs -- by Robbie Rhodes Piano Roll Retail Identification Labels -- by Karl Ellison Pictures from Etude Magazine -- by Karl Ellison Unknown 4-tune Serinette in Australia -- by Ralph Meyer Seabreeze Park Carousel Organ -- by Matthew Caulfield, photos courtesy Rick Inzero Advertisement for 1976 Duo/Art Player by Aeolian -- Courtesy Al Pebworth Telektra Paper Roll Reader -- Courtesy Bob Billings Player Organ for Cruise Ship MS Zaandam -- Courtesy Elbert Pluer Seventails Productions / Pooker Organ Division -- Courtesy of Vicki Webb H.G. Johnson Nickelodeon -- Courtesy of Tom Dawson Getz Steam Calliope -- Courtesy of Kathy E. Getz Santiago Staib-Abendschein Mastertouch Advertising Poster -- Courtesy of Dean Randall Musical Liquor Cabinet -- Courtesy of Bill Wineburgh Transposing Duo-Art Tracker Bar -- Courtesy of Ed Hayden Wurlitzer 165 Band Organ at Glen Echo Park, Maryland -- Courtesy Matthew Caulfield. Wurlitzer 165 Band Organ owned by John Malone-- Courtesy Marc Elbasani The Laterna - A Greek Barrel Piano -- Photos courtesy of Gerry Bay. In Digest 98.07.12, Gerry Bay described a cart mounted crank operated instrument. Here are some pictures to go along with his article. |
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