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Digital Pianos and Digital Guitars! Karaoke display on all MIDI units! Truly unique MIDI products. Not only do we restore player pianos, we manufacture them. Allow plenty of time to down load the .wav files and view all the pages! Plays in your home, with MIDI files from the internet or from
  • any MIDI Guitar or Keyboard!
    •  Wireless MIDI available on all units. Our 52 piece acoustic MIDI orchestras with congas, agogos, timbales, claves, guiros, bongos, Vibra slap, drums, crash cymbals, etc. Player piano and nickelodeons, carousel organs, bandorgans, calliopes, preassembled kits or ready to play. Player piano and nickelodeon conversion kits for any piano. Player piano rolls for orchestrions. We buy, sell and restore music boxes, monkey organs, player piano, carousel organ antique instruments such as seeburg, coinola, Regina, Duo-Art Steinway player grands. Miniature MIDI valves, signal processors, replacement parts for Ragtime player pianos. Digital Jamaican Steel Drums! MIDI conversion of roto toms, drums, cymbal, tambourines, triangles,Indian wood block, castanets, flute pipes, violin pipes, etc. General MIDI files. E-mail us for a free brochure and to be on our mailing list. Send $15 for a color catalog to: Ragtime, 4218 Jessup Rd. Dept. WS, Ceres, CA 95307 For service questions please consult the video service pages below. If you don't see what you are looking for feel free to email Ken at ragtimewest@earthlink.net and he will send you a link or see that a video is uploaded to suit your needs.

    For product purchases and questions call Ken at (209) 735 0767 Skype Call (209) 735-0767.

    For parts and train whistles Monday through Friday 7am - 4pm call (209) 634-8475 or Email us at ragtimewest@earthlink.net.



    3 1/2" floppy disc MIDI playback recorder. Circus Wagon. Also known as a pianola, calliope, bandorgan player piano, pianola, calliope, draaiorgel,saloon,western town, draiorge, orguebarbarie , draihorgel, street organ, orgue de barbarie, orgue bernard, musique, mechanique


  • Click here for our Complete color Catalog in PDF format with current retail prices and specifications.
    • (May 7, 2011)

    If you would rather have a current Color hard copy of the catalog you may simply order it below:
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  • Pat Metheny and Ken in the Ragtime Showroom discussing his Version 2 Orchestrion for 2011


    • Noted film director, Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon, X-Men)recently was given an Automated Ukulele by his wife Lauren Schuler Donner. When I asked him how he had heard about me he related this story, which we got on video. He had heard about me from the widow of George Harrison...watch the video below!

    Harry Connick Jr. plays our Ragtime Nickelodeon on the set of Cheers. Watch it here below:

    Click here to go to the MIDI Ukulele page. See videos below.




  • Click here to go to the O roll
  • Trouble Shooting
    • Videos and Parts page    (March 8, 2011)

    The Ragtime O roll Trouble Shooting Guide

    Click here to go to the Ragtime Service Page - PDF files, mpeg videos and test files for various models

    Click here to go to the Ragtime Movie Demo Page - Excellent Mpeg files!

    The Ragtime MIDI songs pages

    Index of RagtimeWest Products Demonstration videos - (quick You Tube video links for watching)

    Index of RagtimeWest Products Demonstration videos - high quality Mpegs for downloading

    The Ragtime Miscelaneous Videos Page.

    The Ragtime YouTube Factory Tours Page.

    Index of RagtimeWest New Projects

    Ragtime Clients and their Location videos.

    Ragtime Product and Service Instructionals.

  • Click here to go to the O roll
  • O roll Song videos
    • Listen to the roll before you order!    Try it!

    Ragtime Roll Reviews Videos.

    The Ragtime YouTube Trade Show and Convention page.

    The RagtimeWest and Ken Caulkins News interviews and famous peoples endorsement page

    Index of RagtimeWest Audio CDs

    Steel Drums to play by hand



    This is our Newest product known as our

    BailaMaria

    Setup for display at the IAAPA amusement park show convention in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 13th-16th, 2006. It is a good example of what to expect when the instruments are mounted above the floor. This unit will be setup on a beach where a bar serving drinks will be placed below. It will be fitted with weather proofing clear vinyl siding which will roll of in good weather. Also, the bar can be moved back and a dance floor revealed. 16ft wide. Most of these photos were taken from the floor looking up at the cieling where the instruments are mounted.

    Click on the photo to see a Video of it playing a clip from the song "Dulce Maria" From the movie "Mambo Kings" (9mb)

    Click on this photo to see it playing


    Click here to see a Video of it playing a clip from the song Brazil with lots of drums (19 mb)

    Click on this photo to see it playing


    Click on the photo below to see a Video of it playing House of the Rising Sun. This one is 48 mb long. Don't click unless you have DSL or faster

    Click on this photo to see it playing


    Click on the photo below to see a Video of it playing Candela with the Marimba

    Click on this photo to see it playing

    This is a Video of a Smaller Version. Our American Gazebo:

    Click on the photo below to see a Video of it playing Besame Mucho with the 49 note concert Marimba

    Click on this photo to see it playing Besame Mucho

    This Model A shows off our BW66m band organ very well. Ask about our custom parade vehicles. This little band organ is on metal spoked wheels with rubber tires. It can be pulled in parades without the truck.

    Click here for MP3 song of the BW66m-AbCDK playing The Jolly Coppersmith

    Click here for MP3 song of the BW66m-AbCDK playing Roses from the South


    Click for an MP3 of the above playing "Yellow Bird".
    Click here for the above playing "Don't Pull Your Love Out on Me Baby
    Click Here for a clip of the above playing a march 165 KB - mono
    Click Here for a clip of the above playing New York New York 439 KB - mono
      Roll operated stringed instruments.

      New acoustic projects webpages.

      Click on picture above for a sound clip of our small band organ
       Click here to go to the MIDI Guitar page.
        Click here to go to the Roll Operated Banjo page. The cabinet to the right is known as the Morena.
          Click here to go to the MIDI Steel Drum page.


            Seen here is Maria and my son Jeff with our largest cabinet style Orchestrion. It is a MIDI Zm-AbCDEGJKPS with guitar, banjo, bass synth, pipes, glock, piano, accordion, Steel Drum and drums. The PC is located within, but a matching pedestal with touch screen is optional. Without it you may use your own PC or any MIDI player. Available in Cherry and light or dark Oak. Carving, as shown, is optional. There is one of these in Stock at the Ragtime Australia store near Brisbane, Australia.


            If you love what we do, do not have the room but would like to support our research in the field of Automated Music feel free to follow the link below to donate. Your contributions are both needed and welcome.

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