On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 11:54:36AM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
  Just to follow up on this:
 - I have removed the timidity daemon
 - I have tried to play as root. Nope.
 - I have installed alsa-oss. No difference
 - I have run the alsamixer program. The usb device is NOT muted (if it was
 the wav file wouldn't sound either).
 Running out of options! 
another option for you:
timidity -Od -o /dev/dsp2 ityti.mid