Recently, at Cracker Barrel, I was looking at some new fake music boxes from Mr. Christmas. One that caught my eye used an endless punched paper tape to play...
How much are these boxes? They look like the roll frame of a draiiorgel. I wonder if any standard rolls would work? Also is the paper stiff enough to stay...
Hello Don. Can't state the price, but I CAN state that the paper is NOT stiff, more like manila cardstock than it is like "book hardboard". Also, they state...
I have several of the Mr. Christmas musical boxes, and the old ones actually used the small musical boxes that play from paper strips or cardstock or plastic...
Hello All, This Mr. Christmas discussion caught my eye. I have a Mr. Christmas music box that is Santa's Workshop. It stands about 24" tall and about 14" wide....
Hi Jeff. A friend of mine used to have one that was similar. I think they're quite popular, especially around this time of year. As I noted in an earlier...
You can see the patent at http://uspto.gov and search on the patent number 5,698,801. or go directly to http://tinyurl.com/ywfkd4 To see the drawings, click on...
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Hi! Perhaps you have a rollscanner to donate or for sale ... or know someone who does. For various reasons, I am not capable of making my own, yet I need one....
... Date sent: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:50:10 -0800 From: Adam Keller <kelleradam@...> Subject: Thanks for Preserving the Music To: smythe@... Dear Terry:...
Terry's inclusion of a catalog of Welte-Mignon rolls is great stuff! I too am a fan of preserving original literature. His anouncement reminds me that this...
Hi all, Best wishes for 2008 to all rollscanners ! I've now about 1000 rolls, and my rollscanning with a flatbed scanner is very tedious. The result is only...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Rollscanners group. File : /Carolina...
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I once made a roll using a hand-held punch and mallet, plus Exacto knife. At that time, you could buy a special blank roll for this purpose with a grid...
Hi everyone, I've recently been thinking again about my desire to archive / generate sheet music / punch rolls for carillon systems. The holes appear to be...
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Does anyone have an opinion on scanning "O" rolls? I originally adapted my player piano to handle the "O" format music about 20 years ago by adding the extra...
Hello Hank, I listened to the Rooster Rag MIDI file, and it sounds pretty good, particularly since you say it was done with a flatbed scanner. If you (or any...
Warren, The "O" rolls have the same track layout and spacing as the standard 88-note rolls. I found the tracker bar assignments in The Player Piano Co....
From the MMD: Coinola O-Roll Tracker Bar Scale By Don Teach Collector friends of mine disagreed in the earlier days as to the correct tubing of an original...
For this year (2008) the cut-off for copyright protection is now 1923, not 1922 as indicated on the IAMMP roll database pages. It would be nice to see...
Please cite the specific reference that leads you to believe that the 1923 tunes are now out of copyright. According to Circular 15a from the U.S. Copyright...
Oops. I wrote the first reply too quickly. 95 years from 1923 is 2018, not 2008. So, we have still another 10 years to go. The 1923 rolls won't be available...
What sort of copyright is being discussed here? Copyright in the underlying music? Performance copyright? It seems like we are discussing copyright in the...
