•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMDigest -- Our local museum owns an "Aeriola" push-up player with hook attachments that secure the cabinet to the piano. The compass is 65 notes and it plays orthodox player rolls that fit into a normal roll holder; an example is made by "Meloto Co Ltd...

•Hello MMD and Ian Comer. I have been looking at "Player Piano Treasury", Edition 2, by Harvey Roehl. The first few pages of the book summarize the early history of the player piano, including the statement that the "Aeriol" self-playing piano was an early (1895) product of the Aeolian Company. See ...

•Easy to answer what the Aeriola was -- it was simply the Pianola rebadged for sale in non-Aeolian dealers' shops! There's an interesting history behind this, though. The original Aeriol player was invented by Theodore P Brown, and was the first piano-player sold by Aeolian, around 1896. (They were ...

•I have found reference in early Aeolian literature to a roll playing instrument called the Aeriola. I cannot find it listed in the usual sources. I would appreciate learning what kind of mechanical instrument it is. Joe Orens VTPB43A@prodigy.com

•Joe Orens wrote [990202 MMDigest]: >I have found reference in early Aeolian literature to a roll playing >instrument called the Aeriola. I cannot find it listed in the usual >sources. I would appreciate learning what kind of mechanical >instrument it is. I've seen two Aerolias. One is a flat-top 65...

•In MMD 1999.02.04, Bill Wineburgh writes concerning the Aeolian Aeriola: "I...have a copy of the 1905 'Catalog of Music For the Pianola, Pianola Piano and Aeriola,' published by Aeolian Company, Aeolian Hall, 362 Fifth Avenue Near 34th Street, New York. The reference in the book's title to Aeriola ...

•Joe: In MMD 990202 you asked about references for the Aeolian Aeriola roll-playing Instrument. Arthur Ord-Hume has several, albeit brief, references to it in his book, 'Pianola,' published by Allen & Unwin in 1984. Unfortunately, there are no pictures or descriptions of this instrument. What he doe...

•I think the history of the Aeriol is that the Aeolian company, led by the Tremaines, developed it as their own piano player mechanism, but purchased Votey's Pianola when they had the opportunity to do so. (The Pianola was not actually invented by Aeolian Company, but by Votey, who sold out to Aeoli...

•For sale: 1905 Catalog of music for the Pianola, Pianola piano and Aeriola. Hard back, 598 pages. Contains a complete list of music published to July first, 1905. Price $85 plus shipping. Len Railsback brailsback@cox.net.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply] or tel.: 1-620-665-5740 ...

•Available from http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com/store/ : C-AEO-1 - Catalog of Music for the Pianola, Pianola Piano & Aeriola - July 1905 - Vol. I This catalogue contains a complete list of 65-note Pianola music issued prior to July 1st, 1905. C-DA-24 - Catalog of Music Rolls for the Duo-Art - 19...

•Adam Ramet said in 030514 MMDigest: > The player mechanism is a Hupfeld-built one. Hupfeld built > instruments with 73-note scale and 65/73-note players turn up > from time to time. Be alert to the fact that "Claviola" was a Hupfeld trading-round name, just as "Aeriola" was for flagrantly Aeolian-m...

•Dear Jim, Greetings from The Bronx, New York, U.S.A. Regarding the elevation crank, mine was made from a metal rod bent into a crank shape and then its end was ground to the proper dimension to fit the crank holes (this is what came with mine). As for the chuck adapter, there is only one. It fits o...

•These are intriguing early 65-note rolls. I have a few and they're just standard Aeolian rolls with a different name on the label -- the Aeolian labels say "Piano" rather than "Aeriol Piano", the serial numbers are the same). They're too early to have Metrostyle or Themodist on them, being made aro...

•Graeme Parish asked (000828 MMDigest): > I have an Aeolian Vocalion Phonograph in a cabinet, and in good > working order. The name appears to have been transfered onto the > inside of the cabinet lid in scrolled gold writing. There is also > a small badge that has been attached to the lid which say...

•Hello MMD. For several years I have owned a mystery 65-note roll which I acquired somewhere that, to me now, is also a mystery. The roll had lost its box and its leader, so I made it new ones, but it provided few clues to its manufacturer, apart from "Carnival Espagnole", hand written just before t...

•Dear Mr. McBride. Thank you very much for that information. I live in Tasmania, but I have relatives in Sydney. When I visited them I would always make an effort to go across town to visit Denis Condon, and attended a number of his "roll nights" on Saturday evenings. I am pleased that his collectio...

•Hello MMD. I enquired of the music department at Stanford University, which recently has acquired the entire collection of rolls and instruments of Denis Condon, a well-known Sydney collector. They do indeed have an Aeriol catalog in their library, and the number of my Charles Delioux Caprice is 47...

Greetings, The comments from Dan Wilson about the 65-note rolls I offered for sale on the 970301 MMDigest has prompted me to post this update. Please refer to that list to match updates to the rolls. All rolls are 65 note, 11.25 inches. # 5, 7, 12 and 15: Top of lables say "PIANO". # 10. Lyon Editio...

•Hello, Saw your MMD posting and thought I'd dash off a few lines. Back in the '60s I issued a few 58-Note rolls for Orchestrelle -- which meant that the division was in a different place than for the player-pianos of that period ... and also the Aeolian pipe organs which used the 58-Note scale for ...

•[ Ref. Leslie Hoffman in 100625 MMDigest, "Value of Wilcox & White [ 58-note Player Reed Organ" -- I am not so sure I would describe the Wilcox and White push-up as strictly speaking a player organ. The push-up is known as the "Orchestral" and, if you follow its patents backwards in time, its linea...