I would like to know when QRS stopped using stick-on labels on their
rolls and replaced the label with an ink stamped notation, which many
times is smudged and difficult to read.

The label on one old word roll, QRS 289, "You're Some Pretty Doll",
gives information such as "played by" and the composer and copyright
date and publisher.  The same label is on the box and the roll.

Another roll I have is QRS Q-146 (formerly P-10806), "Oh By Jingo";
the box label is brief, just naming "played by Paul Loraine".  The roll
leader is ink stamped and blurred, difficult to read.  I would imagine
that when it was first produced, it would have a 'stick-on' paper label.

I have many more rolls of the old style and the 'new' style.  I have a
long-play roll, Themostyle 4197, "Broadway Echoes."  What is the name
of the roll company?  Some of the sustain perforations are just over
two inches long, the least being one inch.  You have to be careful in
not having the 'sustain' too long and over-running where there is a
chord and key change.

Some of the later QRS rolls have very short sustaining perforations,
about 3/8ths inch long, using only 3 perforations spaced by an equal
gap either side of the center hole.  When playing the rolls, the
sustain pedal goes down and up briefly giving no effect at all to the
music.  I would have thought that this would be realized when the rolls
were tested, especially by the person that played it or by some other
form of production.

The length of the sustain 'perfs' are in keeping also with the Tempo.

Steve Bentley
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

 [ Some rolls assume a fast-acting sustain pedal like in the Ampico B
 [ grand piano.  Other music rolls acknowledge that the loud pedal
 [ pneumatic in many player pianos is slow as molasses!  -- Robbie