What Is New To This Web Site

(Index of New and/or Updated Pages)

New and Updated MMPress Items

July 12, 2010Updated: Wurlitzer Style 32 Concert PianOrchestra from Los Angeles. Added additional paragraph and thumbnail link to PDF copy of the Disney Concert PianOrchestra music roll list.

Updated: Philipps Pianella / Wurlitzer PianOrchestra Tracker-Bar Scales. Added an introductory paragraph and made several corrections to descriptive text.
July 4, 2010New: Mechanical Music Registry -- The Mechanical Music Registry project has been implemented to document the technical and historical development of automatic musical instruments, especially coin-operated pianos, orchestrions and band organs.
July 4, 2010Removed: The old PianOrchestra Music Roll Database Project page has been replaced by the new PianOrchestra/Pianella Rollography Project page, which is located in the new Mechanical Music Registry section.
June 15, 2010New: Seeburg Factory Video -- This short video is from a silent motion picture clip probably filmed by a European crew circa 1927-1928.
April 6, 2010Updated: Wurlitzer PianOrchestra and Paganini Shipping Lists. Added missing information and corrected all newly recognized errors, so that the lists reflect the latest and most complete information.
February 18, 2010New: Added new Home Page to delineate between the Mechanical Music Press and the new Reblitz Restorations sections; and moved The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments book page to its own new, "non-home page" location.
December 3, 2009Updated: Wurlitzer PianOrchestra and Paganini Shipping Lists. Made minor corrections to accuracy of text and updated lists to reflect the latest and most complete information.
August 3, 2009New: Added "printer friendly" style sheets for print media, so that, depending upon the browser used, pages will now be printed without navigation (menu) columns.
June 11, 2009New: Added new Introductory page to the Articles & Stories section of this web site.
June 4, 2009The entire Mechanical Music Press web site was upgraded to comply with the XHTML 1.0 Strict standard.
May 26, 2009New: Added "Web Slices" capability to this page.
January 14, 2009Updated: Links to Resources page by adding a new link in the Books and Recordings section.
November 12, 2008Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 33-A Mandolin PianOrchestra originally located in the New York area. Added new thumbnail with link to new image pane containing 2 photographs of the Bontems singing birds.
July 12, 2008Updated: The Herbert Vincent Story. Made addition to the text regarding Leon Blatchley and fixed a formatting error.
April 13, 2008New: The Herbert Vincent Story -- This is the story about a man who worked in and was an integral part of the mechanical music era during its heyday in the Los Angeles, California, area.
April 12, 2008Updated: Memories of a Collector. Made minor corrections to text and added an additional photograph of the Wurlitzer Bijou Orchestra.
April 4, 2008Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 32 Concert PianOrchestra. Revised and updated information regarding original shipping location in Los Angeles and Herbert N. Vincent, Glockner Music Company/Wurlitzer Music Company employee.
February 5, 2008Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 29-C Mandolin PianOrchestra originally located in Los Angeles, California. Added new restoration information at bottom of page and new thumbnail with link to new image pane containing 14 photographs of the recently restored orchestrion.
January 17, 2008Updated: All new music roll database reports in PDF format for the PianOrchestra Music Roll Project page.
January 2, 2008Updated: Main page for Welte Style 3 Cottage Orchestrion. Added newspaper story from The Republic about the return of the Welte orchestrion to Zaharako's Confectionary.
November 27, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 12 Mandolin PianOrchestra. Added new owner information.
October 15, 2007The entire Mechanical Music Press web site was further upgraded to comply with HTML 4.01 Strict standards. Additionally, the latest Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) and SafeSurf PICS labeling systems were installed.
September 7, 2007Updated: Image pane for Philipps Model "Pfau" Pianella Orchestrion originally located in Belgium. Added text and interior view photograph of restored PianOrchestra to previously existing image pane.
September 6, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 33 Mandolin PianOrchestra discovered in Culver City, California. Corrected and updated text in the sections for the Weber and Krughoff collections. Added thumbnail and link to new image pane containing 8 photographs of the unrestored PianOrchestra in the Rand collection.
August 29, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 29-C Mandolin PianOrchestra originally located in Los Angeles, California. Corrected pipe specification callout, added Pipework Notes section and new thumbnail and link to new image pane containing 2 photographs of the orchestrion in restoration workshop.
August 28, 2007Updated: Main page for Philipps Model 40 Pianella Orchestrion originally located in East Germany. Corrected pipe specification callout, added Pipework Notes section and new thumbnail and link to new image pane containing 12 photographs of the restored exterior and interior components.
August 24, 2007Updated: Main page for Philipps Model 14 Paganini Orchestrion originally located in Brussels, Belgium. Added new thumbnail and link to new image pane containing 12 photographs of the interior components.
August 22, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 32 Concert PianOrchestra originally located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Added new thumbnail and link to new image pane containing 10 photographs of the interior components.
August 21, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 32-A Concert PianOrchestra originally located in Leadville, Colorado. Added minor text details to main page; added both text and electric motor photographs to image pane #9; added new image pane 13a (showing fire damage to PianOrchestra) and pane 13b (initial restoration work in Milhous workshop).
August 20, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 16 Mandolin PianOrchestra originally located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Added new photographs of interior mechanisms to existing exterior view image pane.
August 19, 2007Updated: Main page for Philipps Model 34 Pianella originally located in Groningen, Holland. Added new thumbnails and links to new image pane 4 and pane 5 containing photographs showing the Cohen collection and interior of the orchestrion.
August 14, 2007Installed custom 404 File Not Found error page with the standard full homepage menu for easy re-navigation to verified Mechanical Music Press page links.
August 7, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 30-A Mandolin PianOrchestra originally located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Added new thumbnail and link to new image pane containing a photograph showing the exterior of the restored machine.
August 7, 2007Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 32 Concert PianOrchestra originally located in Los Angeles, California. Added new thumbnail and link to new image pane containing 14 photographs of the newly restored machine.
July 28, 2007Initiated restructuring and HTML code upgrade for entire Mechanical Music Press web site. Improvements will include correspondence with WCAG Priority 1 & 2 Accessibility standards, and conversion to current HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS 2.1 code standards. The old frames based navigation system is and will be fully replaced by a page based system. Certain minor visual enhancements will also be implemented. This transition is expected to occur incrementally over the next two weeks.

Webmasters: If you have links to this web site other than the home page some of these special cross-links may no longer function correctly, due to file name changes and/or directory relocation required by the restructuring and elimination of all frames type pages.
November 27, 2006Updated: Main page for Welte Style 3 Cottage Orchestrion. Added new owner information.
December 31, 2005Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 32-A Concert PianOrchestra originally located in Leadville, Colorado. Included extensive historical and family history about the original owner, John (Bernat) Perme, as provided by the wife of a grandson of the late John Perme.
August 19, 2004Updated: Main page for Wurlitzer Style 32-A Concert PianOrchestra originally located in Leadville, Colorado. Added newly acquired historical information and images provided by a longtime Leadville resident and friend of the John Perme family.
November 8, 2003New: The Vestal Press Story -- The Vestal Press and How It Grew, by Harvey N. Roehl.
November 3, 2003New: Hupfeld Helios III/39 Orchestrion page, with image links to descriptive picture panes.