The Music Box Club

Things have not been going too well for this club since our great old player piano has broken down. It was bound to happen, and finally last month it just gave up. It has always had trouble with the American in Paris roll, and when Ralph Heintz played it with such feeling it just gave out at the last few notes. We are trying to find someone with repair knowledge of the old foot pumped player pianos, but we have not been too successful. We miss standing around the piano singing "Heart of my Heart", "Lucky Lindy (Eagle of the USA)", "Bye Bye Blackbird", and other great songs of that era. Some of us would even wear period cloths for our player piano sing along get togethers - Never fear we will rise again to sing the "old" songs. We will keep looking.

In the meantime you can visit these sites to find out what is happening on the www with respect to mechanical music and electronic music of all kinds.

(MIDI information? Visit this site!)

(Player Piano with the roll moving. (You need a graphic browser for this one.)

(Another friend of player pianos.)

(Sigfried Wendel friend of automatic music.)

(Another one of Sigfried Wendel's pages.)

(Little hand played instruments called Organettes (Sears Roebuck sold them by the thousands in late 1800's and early 1900's)

(Old mechanical musical instruments)

(Download MIDI files?)

(LEXIKON-SONATE (1992 - 1997) an infinite realtime composition for computer-controlled piano)

( More information about the above piece.)

(Dr. Karlheinz Essl SAMT - Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology - Bruckner-Konservatorium Linz / Austria)

(Mechanical music site somwhere in Paris.)