88-note Classical Rolls and Duo-Art Do-Nothing Snakebites
By Dan Wilson
88-note Classical Rolls
Karl Ellison asks where to find classical music on 88-note rolls. The answer is England, because the greatest interest was always there and after 1929 or so the Aeolian Co sourced all its classical rolls from the plant in Hayes, Middlesex.
Try Steve Cox, Laguna Rolls, (dealer) and
Frances Broadway, "Post-Bid Enterprise", London (postal auction)
in the AMD resources list.
Duo-Art Do-Nothing Snakebites
I've never heard two restorers agree on why some DA rolls code their theme lower than the accompaniment. However, where snakebites appear with zero theme power, I've heard it said that this enabled easier playing of DA rolls on plain Themodist pumpers, where on the Duo-Art the emphasis put in on the accompaniment side was enough but a foot-player would need to have the note brought out a bit using the "theme" facility. Since DAs were often issued without the coding as hand-played rolls, this could have made the transfer editing simpler too.
Dan Wilson
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