Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info
MMD > Archives > July 1999 > 1999.07.15 > 03Prev  Next


Locate and Preserve the Music Rolls
By Albert Petrak

To All:  Reading Dan Wilson's recounting of the "Triphonola Story"
(990714 MMD) suggests that the readership should be reminded of the
need to locate and preserve these recordings.  Among them are some of
the rarest and indeed unique performances in the entire world catalog.

Further, his statement of the fragility of the rolls he owns would
reinforce the urgency.  Many of the historic pianists, forming an
interpretive connection with Liszt, Anton Rubinstein and Busoni to the
present are represented on these rolls.  And many of the recordings
are of pieces that have disappeared from the repertory, are only to be
found on these documents, and most important, comparative phonograph
recordings do not exist.

As many collectors of some history will know, the 78 rpm format simply
couldn't do justice to the singular interpretive skill(s) these artists
had mastered.  If we are to provide our descendants with documents
which otherwise will perish, we must act quickly.

A reminder: complete catalog detail of this company in PDF format
is to be found in the web site   http://www.rprf.org/index.html
I urge all of you to assist the RPRF in providing this valuable service
to posterity.  You will receive a gold star at the top of your
(heavenly) chart!  (Smile!)

Albert M. Petrak


(Message sent Thu 15 Jul 1999, 10:54:13 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

Key Words in Subject:  Locate, Music, Preserve, Rolls

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page