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MMD Archives Authors Craig Smith The most recent submissions are listed first. Address supressed for SPAM control purposes. Write to the editor if you need assistance Digest Nr Subject 2008.05.31.03 Calliope Tuning Tool 2008.03.19.02 Mystery Wooden Roller 2008.03.12.05 Hazards and Effects of Ozone 2008.03.06.09 Forms of Shellac 2008.03.05.05 Repairing Duo-Art Steamboat Pump 2008.02.24.06 Aeolian "Spirit Black" Paint 2008.02.19.05 USPS Media Mail 2008.02.03.05 Hide Glue & Fish Glue 2008.02.02.01 Duo-Art Organ Rolls Played by Harold Gleason 2008.01.31.02 "Automatic Organs" by Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume 2008.01.20.05 Montana Heritage Commission Ridicules Collection 2007.12.24.03 Illegible Flute Clock Tune Sheet 2007.11.19.06 Advice on Casting a Metal Part 2007.11.13.03 Silvertone Phonograph 2007.11.12.07 Replicating Capital Cuff Box Governor 2007.11.12.06 Tanzbar Flywheel 2007.09.30.03 Value of Old Player Pianos 2007.09.19.08 Source of New Slotted Wood Screws 2007.09.01.01 Pinning a New Barrel for a Crank Organ 2007.08.07.06 Kistdraaiorgel Plans 2007.07.24.07 Pins for Barrel Piano Cylinder 2007.07.17.03 Artzsche DVD "History of Mechanical Music" 2007.07.10.04 Artzsche DVD "History of Mechanical Music" 2007.07.08.12 Artzsche DVD "History of Mechanical Music" 2007.05.17.09 Cast Iron Foundry in New York 2007.04.26.08 Blower for Caliola Residence Organ 2007.03.14.02 Seek Book "Schwarzwalduhren" by Berthold Schaaf 2007.03.05.04 Smaller Air Calliope? 2007.02.11.04 Repairing a Broken Tracker Bar 2007.02.04.07 Making Trumpet Pipes With Free Reeds 2007.02.02.04 1973 Article on Rzebitschek in "The Music Box" 2007.02.01.04 Seek 1973 Article in "The Music Box" 2007.01.01.02 Bob School, Musical Box Machinist 2006.11.13.01 Repairing Lador Musical Christmas Tree Stand 2006.10.09.07 Biox Metal Cleaner, Rust Romover 2006.10.08.05 Sources of Evapo-rust 2006.09.27.02 Lost Barrel Organ Question 2006.09.25.01 Flute Clock in Anniston, Alabama, Museum 2006.07.26.02 Rube Goldberg Restorations 2006.07.11.04 Liability for Flood Damage to Customer's Instrument 2006.05.31.05 Seek Chromatic Musical Box 2006.05.26.02 Jake's Painted Player Piano 2006.05.17.04 Seek Seth Isadore of Belgium 2006.05.07.03 Source of Music Rolls for Mills Violano 2006.05.05.03 Organ-Building Book "Kistdraaiorgel" in English 2006.04.13.05 Mills Violano Rolls Recut by Dick Hack 2006.04.12.03 Seek Book on Organ Clocks 2006.03.24.04 Plating Metal Parts 2006.02.15.09 Composition of Phenoseal Liquid Caulk in 1996 2006.02.15.02 Flute Clock Barrel Organ by Damian Dufner 2006.02.15.01 10-key Serinette with Spring Motor 2006.02.05.05 Replacement Comb for Musical Box 2006.02.03.02 Music Rolls in Indiana Museum 2005.12.11.02 Organ-Building Book "Kistdraaiorgel" in English 2005.12.08.09 FS: Organ-Building Book "Kistdraaiorgel" in English 2005.12.07.01 Strange Coin Mechanism in Olympia Musical Box 2005.10.18.03 Crank Wheel for Barrel Organ 2005.09.15.02 Identifying a 22-key Barrel Organ 2005.09.12.03 Player Piano 'A' Rolls for Ice Cream Parlor 2005.08.03.01 Musical Box Condition Inaccurately Described 2005.07.31.07 "The Art of Organ-Building" by Audsley 2005.07.06.11 Seek Player Piano in Virginia 2005.05.29.10 Ampico B Rubber Mounting Blocks 2005.04.27.03 MIDI-Controlled Chamber Organ by David Leach 2005.04.20.06 Rebuilding Tom Thumb Recordo Player Piano 2005.03.27.03 Internet Fraud 2005.03.22.01 Seek Scale of 15-note Flute Clock 2005.03.18.02 Possible Musical Box Auction Scam 2005.03.14.07 Protecting Instrument Against Humidity Extremes 2005.03.06.06 Barrel Organ Pipes Restored by OSI 2005.03.06.05 Reading the Pinned Music of an Organ Barrel 2005.02.26.05 Internet Fraud - Contacting the Seller 2005.02.17.03 Stella 9" Music Box Brings $47,000 at Auction 2005.02.01.01 Gavioli "Guitharmonie" Barrel Reed Organ 2005.01.28.01 Gavioli "Guitharmonie" Barrel Reed Organ 2005.01.26.09 Sealing Bellows Leaks with Pliobond 2005.01.24.07 Carbon Brushes for Motor Starting Switch 2005.01.21.04 Cleaning Musical Box Cylinders 2005.01.18.08 Digital Caliper for Valve Regulation 2005.01.15.06 Digital Depth Micrometer for Valve Regulation 2005.01.07.04 MIDI Explained in Piano Roll Terms 2005.01.03.02 Reginaphone Style 246 2004.12.28.05 Cleaning Keyboard Switch Contacts 2004.12.13.02 Palm Pilot MIDI Player 2004.09.10.02 Display Box Lost at the MBSI Convention is Found 2004.09.03.02 Display Box Lost at the MBSI Convention 2004.09.01.03 Printing a Book Music Template on Cardboard 2004.09.01.02 Mystery 14-Note Player Pipe Organ 2004.08.31.10 Radio Programs About Mechanical Music 2004.08.24.03 Organ Pipes of Metal - Fixing Dents 2004.08.06.01 Seek Barrel Organ Sold at George Theder Auction 2004.07.13.14 Paper Deacidification Using Cycloexylamine 2004.06.21.01 Calliope Plays Music Stored on Memory Card 2004.06.20.02 Label for Piano Shaped Musical Box 2004.06.10.02 R.M.B. Company & Regina Music Box Factory 2004.06.05.01 Seek Paillard Musical Box Tune List 2004.06.02.01 MBSI Museum Directory Update 2004.05.29.06 Nickelodeon Spool Frame With Belt Drive 2004.05.16.09 Hazards of Ozone 2004.05.06.05 Determining the Gamma of a Barrel Organ 2004.05.02.06 Stripped Screw Holes in Wood 2004.05.02.01 Recipes for Wood Stains 2004.04.29.05 Vacuum Transducer for Motor Speed Control 2004.04.20.10 FS: Barrels for Faventia Street Piano 2004.04.17.06 Reverting to Pedals for a Player Piano 2004.04.15.10 Reverting to Pedals for a Player Piano 2004.04.15.08 'Deal' Softwood 2004.04.12.09 Reverting to Pedals for a Player Piano 2004.04.11.09 'Deal' Softwood for English Barrel Organ 2004.04.11.04 Thorens 50-Note Music Box Adjustment 2004.02.10.01 Seek Deal Softwood for English Barrel Organ 2004.02.02.01 Regina 27-inch Parts & Discs 2004.01.23.06 Casting Brass Rosette Washers 2004.01.19.03 Wilcox & White Combination Pushup Player Controls 2004.01.06.11 The Old Piano Rolling Blues - Epilogue 2004.01.05.07 Horror Story: The Old Piano Rolling Blues 2004.01.02.01 Repair of Stella Musical Box 2003.12.30.05 Robert Morton Player Organ For Sale 2003.12.05.02 Book "The Organ-Builder" by Charles Ferguson 2003.10.05.07 Treating New Metal Screws to Appear Old 2003.10.02.15 Repairing Gem Roller Organ 2003.08.19.03 Seek Fredy Gerer of Germany 2003.08.12.10 Softening Epoxy 2003.07.15.01 Book "The Marvelous World of Music Machines" 2003.06.23.17 Voltage Converters 115V Input 230V Output 2003.06.19.02 Polishing a Brass Music Box Cylinder 2003.06.14.06 FS: Book "The Marvelous World of Music Machines" 2003.06.03.07 Ontario Beach Park Band Organ Is Too Loud 2003.05.13.02 Unknown Musical Box is a Symphonion 2003.05.11.04 Collection of Music Box Society Magazines 2003.05.10.03 Repair of Automaton Monkey by Michel Marcu 2003.03.26.05 Smoke Generator Element For Automaton 2003.02.14.03 Mortier Vibraton Pipes 2003.02.06.05 CD of Philipps Paganini Monstre 2003.02.04.02 Seek Nameplate for Regina 27" Changer 2003.01.25.08 Cleaning the Original Piano Finish 2003.01.21.04 QRS Story & Clark Self-Tuning Piano System Patent 2003.01.14.09 Mills Violano AC/DC Rotary Converter 2003.01.13.08 Mills Violano AC/DC Rotary Converter 2003.01.09.10 Source of Fish Glue 2002.12.19.04 Rueckenklavier Back Piano Plays Turkish Songs 2002.12.19.02 Pinned Cylinder (Barrel) Transcribing Machine 2002.12.01.02 English Barrel Organ by Joseph Hicks of Bristol 2002.11.28.01 Bellows for Singing Bird Musical Box 2002.10.31.01 Packing a Barrel Organ For Shipment 2002.09.13.10 Source of Replacement Lamp Bulbs 2002.08.23.03 Airflow Measurement - Phil Dayson Flow Meter 2002.07.24.01 Weight Driven 13-5/8" Symphonion Parts Arrangement 2002.07.08.07 Building a Pneumatic Roll Reader 2002.06.23.03 Orchestrion in Rochester & Hammondsport, New York 2002.06.06.06 Making A Musical Box 2002.04.30.01 Stop Mechanism for 20-3/4" Regina 2002.01.31.02 Value of Barrel Piano 2002.01.27.09 Music Roll Transport Frame for Scanner 2001.12.19.10 Repairing Gem Roller Organ Valves 2001.12.06.11 Neoprene Tubing for Street Organ 2001.12.03.03 Plastic Tubing in German Player Piano 2001.11.21.12 Seeburg Reiterating Xylophone Valves 2001.11.14.11 Removing a Bent or Broken Screw 2001.10.30.03 Music Box of "The Simpson's" Theme Song 2001.06.29.02 Gluing Leather On Pipe Stoppers 2001.06.26.04 Liquid Fish Glue 2001.06.26.03 Source of Armstrong Gasket Material 2001.06.21.02 John Smith Busker Organ Kit 2001.06.18.07 Spoked Wheels & Height of Street Organ Crank 2001.06.15.04 PayPal Currency Exchange Rates 2001.05.02.02 "Harding March" US Music 41515 2001.04.08.03 Deagan "Shaker Chimes" Play Mozart 2001.04.08.02 Noises While Playing Music Box Discs 2001.03.10.01 Barrel Organs by Poirot of Mirecourt 2001.03.03.11 Connecting MIDI Wireline to Laptop Computer 2001.02.25.01 Bank Currency Conversion Fees 2001.02.21.04 Graph of Transposed Organ Scale 2001.01.30.01 Seek Tuning Scale of Mirecourt Barrel Organ 2001.01.16.07 Relative Humidity and the Piano 2001.01.06.02 Duplicate Metal Case Parts By Lost Wax Casting 2000.12.30.03 Reig Verbena Toy Barrel Piano 2000.11.15.02 Recordings of Old Barrel Organs 2000.11.11.01 Polyphon Top-Mounted Dampers 2000.11.06.11 Recording And Processing Organ Data with Cakewalk 2000.09.27.06 Water Organ at Moldova National Museum, Romania 2000.09.27.05 Trumpet Clocks & Organ Clocks 2000.08.13.03 Antique Store Prices at eBay Auction 2000.08.08.03 Antique Store Prices 2000.07.24.11 Phonograph Turntable Speeds 2000.07.21.12 Testing Pouch Leather Sealants 2000.06.13.05 Making Transfer Decals 2000.06.12.04 Varnish Decals 2000.05.30.04 Organ for Carousel At Rye Playland 2000.03.24.06 Seek Laptop Computer With MIDI-Out Port 2000.03.16.01 Measuring Airflow Through Porous Wood 2000.02.18.09 Making Name Plates By Acid Etching 2000.02.18.04 Polyphon Gambling Music Box Slogan 2000.02.16.14 Escutcheon Nameplate Fabrication 2000.02.07.01 Avon Musical Carousel 2000.01.11.12 Mitering Organ Pipes 2000.01.06.08 Mandolin Rail Attachment Designs 1999.12.22.01 "Mr. Christmas" Music Box On Sale at Lowe's 1999.12.15.09 Printing Words on Piano Rolls 1999.08.21.07 Different Types of Glass Armonicas 1999.08.17.12 Glass Harmonica 1999.08.17.07 "Digital Music" Plays Self-Punched Paper Strips 1999.08.17.03 Packing and Shipping Music Boxes 1999.08.09.08 Pickup Cartridges for Old Phonographs 1999.07.05.02 Old Theaters of Syracuse, New York 1999.06.28.07 Pliobond Glue 1999.06.16.15 Wood Worms in Music Box 1999.06.03.02 Heads for Music Box Monkeys 1999.05.11.16 Florescent Lamp Starting & Operation 1999.05.01.02 Cobs and Barrels 1999.04.22.07 Transparent Music Roll Paper & IR Sensors 1999.04.09.10 Playing 78 RPM Records 1999.04.07.07 FS: 78 RPM Record Players 1999.03.21.07 Recording Pianos With Camcorder 1999.03.04.05 Door Prizes For 1999 MBSI Convention 1999.02.24.04 MBSI East Coast Meeting & Rally 14-16 May 1999 1999.01.08.10 Mounting Rail for Disklavier Solenoids 1999.01.08.04 Barry Johnson Address 1999.01.08.02 The Victorian Internet and Historic Technology 1999.01.01.11 Ampico "A" Parts and Motors Available 1999.01.01.10 Regina Coin-Slot Parts Needed 1998.12.12.15 Source for Silicone Sealant 1998.12.09.08 Solvent for Silicone Adhesive 1998.12.04.03 Lightweight Piano Aboard the Hindenburg 1998.12.01.02 Care and Value Of Your Music Box 1998.11.12.06 Noise Canceling Systems For Blowers 1998.11.05.01 Repairing 36-note Thorens Movement 1998.10.29.03 Georges Poirot Barrel Organ 1998.10.06.15 FS: 43 Note Calliope and Wagon 1998.09.23.04 AC to DC Converter for Mills Violano 1998.08.23.20 Help Find a Player Piano in Luxembourg 1998.08.21.02 Currency exchange 1998.08.15.15 "Wellington's Victory" - History 1998.08.13.04 MIDI Control for Ruth Organ vs. Tracker Bars 1998.08.02.02 Deagan Chimes 1998.07.18.03 Giovanni Zanin's Visit in the Good Ol' USA 1998.06.19.04 Visitor from Italy - Giovanni Zanin 1998.04.01.05 MBSI Publications on CD-ROM 1997.12.02.17 FS: Solid-state Relays 1997.11.22.02 Payments in Foreign Currency 1997.04.13.03 Dating A Music Box 1997.04.12.03 Need Small Music Box Movement 1997.03.09.15 Seek Motor Pulley for Round Belt 1997.02.28.03 Horse-drawn Calliope in New Orleans 1997.02.17.20 Tung Oil Finish 1997.02.17.04 Return to Rochester 1997.02.12.27 Seek: Tiny Organette Pipes 1997.02.12.14 Sealing Pouches 1997.01.06.01 Re: Thorens Music Box Project 1996.12.03.14 Re: Music Roll Punch Advance 1996.10.15.04 Mills Christmas Roll Project; Glue Removal 1996.10.02.12 Removing Screws and Fixing Holes 1996.09.26.07 Rick Inzero's Piano Search 1996.04.23.02 Pianolodeon Rolls 1996.04.23.01 Roll Arranging Software 1996.02.14.05 Museum Listing 1996.02.14.04 Roll Repairs and Thanks! 1996.02.14.03 Re: Recordo Rolls 1996.02.06.03 Re: Mortuary Organ For Sale (96.02.05) 1995.10.24.02 Regina 34 question - 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