The
Automatic Musical Instruments Collectors' Association Conceived
and born in San Francisco in 1963, is a non-profit, tax exempt
group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of
musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated
music books. The natural growth of the Association has broadened
its interests over the years to embrace many forms of vintage
musical instruments that will play by themselves by some mechanical
or electro-mechanical means. Instruments of interest include player
pianos, reproducing grand pianos, nickelodeons, orchestrions,
circus/fairground organs, player pipe prgans, disk/cylinder music
boxes.
Musical
Box Society International An
educational organization dedicated to the enjoyment, study and
preservation of automatic and mechanica musical instruments. A
Goal of the MBSI is to provide information and education. Visit
our entire website and then join us.
Mechanical Music Digest
One of the most popular sites on the Web for anyone interested
in Mechanical Musical Devices and related topics.
Meliora
Music Rolls Piano
rolls (paper) original and recuts in reproducing Piano Roll formats
as well as 88 note. Excellent selections and excellent quality.
Master recreations of original piano rolls.
Player Piano Group
UK-based
society welcoming all owners and enthusiasts of the player piano
in all its varieties, founded by Frank Holland in 1959. Holds
regular social meetings and issues a quarterly magazine covering
all aspects of the hobby, plus postal auctions of rolls.
Julian Dyer
piano rolls Maker of perforated paper rolls for
Duo-Art and 88-note player pianos. Has a small catalog of perforation-accurate
replica rolls available off-the-shelf. Offers a custom recutting
service for a wide range of titles, including most of those offered
on Spencer's eRolls, and creation of new rolls from MIDI files."
Carol
Beigel's Web Site
An excellent resources for Yamaha Disklavier owners as well as
anyone interested in MIDI.
Paul Manganaro (E-Mail
link only, no web site) Full
service piano and pneumatic restoration. Authorized
Chase E-Roll Player installations
Peter
Phillips
Ampico erolls. A CD-ROM collection of over 1440 Ampico erolls
in BAR/ANN and MIDI formats is
now available from Peter Phillips, Australia. Peter's CD-ROM was
released
in February 2001 at the AMICA convention in Melbourne. It comes
with
lots of documentation, and an easy to use catalog system in which
you simply
click on the item in the catalog to play it. Price of the CD-ROM
is US$400
Player Care
A reference for all your Player Piano needs. Very well organized
and friendly.
Warren Trachtman
For the best "Sound Fonts" to make your sound
module or PC sound card sound as much like a piano as possible.
Excellent samples, including multi layered fonts give a realism
that is unmatched. Free samples and a very informative site.
GNMIDI
Anyone
who uses MIDI files, needs this program. Dozens of useful functions.
Simple program with full help file does everything it purports
to do and does it extrmemly well and fast. I have been using the
program for years and continue to find new uses for it. Excellent
support although rarely needed. Look here for MIDI functions before
looking any place else because anything done in GNMIDI is unlikely
to be done better elsewhere.
Van
Basco's Midi Player
This
is an excellent playlist player for MIDI files. Not specifically
designed forE-Roll playing but simple and quick to learn.
www.mechanicalmusicpress.com
"Mail-order
source for Art Reblitz' book The Golden Age of Automatic Musical
Instruments; plus pages of detailed historical information on
automatic instruments by Terry Hathaway and other authors; links
to other interesting automatic music sites."
Brougher
Restorations
Full pneumatic and piano restoration service. Authorized Chase
E-Roll Player installations. Helpful articles, written by a leading
authority in the field, are also available.