What's New?

This page - a way of letting old friends find new additions, and also a way of keeping track of what's here, a sort of reverse history. Dates of additions before February, 1999 have been recovered from file data and other records and are approximate.

Added to Band-organ Page - Babyface - Hungarian Rhapsody - National Emblem - Over the Waves - The Thunderer

Added to Link Page - Anny de Leeuw's Site (ABK)

Added to Friends Page - Jackie's site (Web Head)

Christmas Favorites - My Christmas Page -The PinWiz in a Santa suit - Favorite Christmas Music

PinWiz Bio Page - Meet the PinWiz - Everything you wanted to know about The PinWiz

Time Out Page - Where The PinWiz works - a Fun Place

Web Design Page - Links to good sites for page, site, and web design and general interest - My personal start page.

Navigation Panel - Added to most pages - I got tired of always having to go through "Home" to get to another page.

Added to Friends Page - Indian's Home Page

Added to Link Page - The Laugh-In

Added to Friends Page - Robin Cantor's Home Site

Added to Link Page - Enchante` (MIDI Carousel) - Jasmine's Carousel - City of Loveland - Mechanical Music Digest

Added to Composer Gallery Page - Janacek - Sullivan - Bartok - Sousa

Added to Band-organ Page - Light Cavalry Overture - A Dream of Springtime

Added to Bach Page - Musette - Prelude and Fugue in E Minor - Prelude and Fugue in F Major - Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor - Polacca - Brandenburg 1 Trio 2 - Brandenburg 2 Movt. 2 - Brandenburg 3 Movt. 1

Added to Band-organ Page - Emperor Waltz - Die Fledermaus - Entry of the Gladiators - Hello My Baby - La Donna e Mobile - La Spagnola - The Artist's Life - Looneytoons - Maple Leaf Rag - Missouri Waltz - Old Paint - The Ragtime Dance - The Good old Days - Redwing - Skaters Waltz - St. Louis Rag - Ragtime Two-step

Added to Link Page - Robin Cantor (Computer Help)

Added to Band-organ Page - Bill Bailey - Mice on Parade - Vienna Life - Wishing Star - Zip a Dee Do Dah - The Blue Danube

Added to Friends Page - Hulk's Home Site

Organ Builder Page - Simulating Pipe Organs with MIDI

Added to Link Page - Claude Ferguson (Spoon Player) - Kasaci's Site (Istanbul)

Added to Composer Gallery Page - Charles Ives

Added to Bill's Soup Kitchen - French Onion Soup

Band-organ Page - Age of Gold Polka

Friends Page - Banners from friends' sites, many of which I made

Added to Bach Page - Jig Fugue - Organ Trio Sonata No. 3

Bill's Soup Kitchen - Chicken Soup

Composer Gallery Page - Beethoven - Gounod - Handel - Massenet - Mozart - Rachmaninoff - Riegger

Pinball Gallery Page - Air Aces - Darts - Fireball - High Diver - Jigsaw - Soccer - Stampede - Travel Time

Link Page - Chuang Keng Wei - You Make a Difference

Added to Bach Page - In Tears of Grief - Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring - Jesu, Meine Freude - Air for the G String - Prelude and Fugue in G Major - Tocatta and Fugue in F Major - Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor

Home Page - Started my First Website

Bach Page - Music by the Master

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Whew! You got all the way down here. Let me tell you, there's a lot of work involved in building a website. Especially a personal site like this, that can be expected to evolve over time.

Initially, I used the page assemblers available at Geocities, but I also followed the source code too. I didn't like the way some page assemblers added unneeded code into the page and so I decided to follow the advice of the NotePad people and learn to write HTML in the raw.

I usually build at least the working framework of a page using NotePad to write the code and InternetExplorer4 to display the page. (Save, refresh, save, refresh.) And I usually have Paint (.bmp) and PhotoEnhancer (.jpg, .tif, .bmp) going too.

Then I upload the page to Geocities, along with all the MIDI, images, and other files, that have been assembled to that point. From there I use the Geocities Advanced Editor, which is very similar to NotePad.

I find it takes a month or two for the page to settle down, designwise, and it may get just an occasional update from there on.

When I started this site I didn't have a plan, I just thought it would be a cool thing to do. I had been playing with MIDI for several years and had quite a few classical files completed. It seemd a natural source of content, something I could use to build an interesting page quickly.

I began to see early on that some things worked for me, and some didn't. Oh sure, I tried this and that, animated gifs, embedded MIDI, some JAVA effects, but I didn't like the hassle of waiting for that stuff to load.

I began to organize my files, and in the back of my mind there began to grow a plan, a progression from page designer to site designer to web designer.

Of course I was totally unprepared for the reality of the web. I exchanged emails, I got on ICQ. My interests and directions changed with every impact: new friends, new ideas, cool sites. Teddybears, butterflies, flowers, hugs, flames, sharing joys and sorrows with friends the world over.

So this site is the result, a balance of The Plan (order) and The Web (chaos). I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.