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65-note Music Mounted on 88-note Spool
By Tom Hutchinson

Hi MMD,  I'm sure Terry Smythe is correct with his view of how 65-note
rolls got wound on 88-note spools.  However, in my own shop it was done
deliberately.  I have a collection of about 700 65-note rolls.  During
the collecting and repair of these rolls I came upon several that had
broken pin end flanges or other problems that prevented me from using
them as originally intended.

Now I'm a very lucky man in that I have a 1906 Melville Clark player
piano that plays four types of rolls.  Important here is the fact that
it will play both 65-note and 88-note rolls.  Secondly, I have a roll
repair table that allows me to quickly reroll a 65-note roll onto an
88-note spool.

Have you ever tried to remake or repair a broken 65-note pin-end spool,
or find new ones or find new boxes?  So several of the rolls in my
collection have been converted.  They play perfectly.  To play them the
only thing I do differently is to set the chucks in the spool box to
accept the 88-note spool.

There were a gazillion of these 65-note rolls made and more than just
the Melville Clark piano that would play both types, so perhaps more
folks than just me did the same thing.

Tom Hutchinson


(Message sent Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:19:08 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

Key Words in Subject:  65-note, 88-note, Mounted, Music, Spool

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