•Years ago I used to play 65 and 88-Note rolls in the Autograph Themodist-Metrostyle and Metrostyle (only) series "back to back" at The Musical Wonder House, especially at the end of the evening concerts. This usually took place on the Steinway "AR" with both Pianola lever manipulation and with Duo-...

•I have added a photo of an Autograph Metrostyle roll on the following page at my site: http://website.lineone.net/~agr/rolls/rollscan.html It is one of the only 20+ titles made in 88-note format. This is what Julian Dyer so well described in MMD issue: http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/199805...

•Who is interested in piano rolls of the Studies for Player Piano, composed by the famous American-Mexican composer Conlon Nancarrow? It's hair-raising, but contemporary music! Nancarrow died the 10th of August, 1997, in Mexico. There are left some rolls, personally numbered and signed by Nancarrow...

•Babs Cannon wrote: > Regarding autographed photos, I'd like to have a couple from > S. K. Goodman and George Bogatko. Are these available? Well, I don't know what Stephen looks like, but I have more of the "pudgy geek with a bad back" look, certainly nothing to adorn the covers of health magazines...

•Babs Cannon wrote: > Regarding autographed photos, I'd like to have a couple from > S. K. Goodman and George Bogatko. Are these available? Dear Babs, Thanks for asking, but after you get 'em you might wish you hadn't!! ;-0 I think I can dig up something that would be nice, can you send me your snai...

•I recently picked up, at a used book store, the books "Re-Enacting The Artist - A story of the Ampico Player Piano" and "Rebuilding the Player Piano" by Larry Givens. The Ampico book has the liner page written with "With very best regards, from Larry Givens 7/15/71". At that time, the book belonged...

•Thank you [for the subscription]. I'll be interested to see the postings. If you would run Mr. Krall's notice, I'd appreciate it. He is much better than I am in explaining what I do. I'm no good at "tooting my own horn". James Camner La Scala Autographs, Inc. P.O. Box 715 Pennington, NJ 08534 LSAut...

•In the 98.05.19 digest, Karl Ellison forwarded a mail inquiring about the value of some player rolls. Part of it went: > The one he gave me details from has a copyright listed by Aeolian Co. > 1906. It was a Beethoven scroll and had Sonata Passionate and Allegro > Assai on the label. Handwritten no...

•Robbie, The details of the final roll in this series are QRS 80186 Magnolia Suite 5. The Place Where The Rainbow Ends All four rolls were listed in the QRS Autograph monthly bulletin for October, 1912. This was included in the QRS Autograph rollography I published privately a few years ago, and whi...

•I have just found an unboxed roll of Liszts Transcription of Saint Saens Danse Macabre number TL35000 (Aeolian). Just above the words on the leader "Full scale THEMODIST" I find in very small letters "autograph". Into the first few notes and I find a few words apparently handwritten (or perhaps a v...

•In MMD 99.10.14 Alan Whytock asked about an Aeolian Autograph Metrostyle roll he possesses of Saint-Saens 'Danse Macabre'. This area was covered in the MMD in May 1998 (search the Archive for Autograph and Autograph-Metrostyle). In 98.05.21 MMDigest I listed all the artists listed as having have ma...

•Greetings, I have a batch of Wurlitzer Autograph rolls that I am scanning and hope to find some information about them so that I don't have to figure out a few things on my own. These rolls are from sourced from Welte rolls. Not sure whether Red or Green Welte or whatever. They are perforated at 9 ...

•This tracker scale for Wurlitzer Autograph Rolls is from my 1981 book "Treasures of Mechanical Music" (co-authored with Q. David Bowers). I took it from an original scale stick used in the roll-making department of the Wurlitzer factory. It is an adaptation of the Apollo Art-Echo roll for home repr...

•Greetings, I have received a few suggestions as to the scale and coding of the Wurlitzer Autograph rolls that I have scanned but nothing really fits the rolls that I have. They seem to be Welte coded with a minor change regarding the sustain pedal. The best way I can think of to try to resolve the ...

•[ Robbie commented in 060301 MMDigest: >[ Spencer, you wrote in 060227 MMDigest that the rolls are perforated >[ at 9 holes to the inch, with long chains of perforations. Despite >[ the "Autograph" label, might they have been perforated by Wurlitzer >[ for instruments that played the Welte-Mignon T...

•>[ Despite the "Autograph" label, might they have been perforated by >[ Wurlitzer for instruments that played the Welte-Mignon T-98 "Green" >[ rolls (which resemble Licensee rolls without lock-and-cancel)? M. Welte & Sons, Inc., made the rolls before 1920 for the Wurlitzer Autograph piano. In the o...

•Greetings, After chasing down a bunch of false leads and a few helpful hints, I think I have figured out the scale of the Wurlitzer 11.25" rolls. They are from Welte T100 rolls, with a few modifications and some added sloppiness. There seems to be no motor speed control track and the soft pedal is ...

•In the massive book by Charles Davis Smith, "The Welte-Mignon -- Its Music and Musicians", there is a section covering the 1915 agreement between Welte and Wurlitzer. I digested it for an article in the Player Piano Group magazine, looking at the history of the Mignon system. Without having any dir...

•I would like more information on the QRS Autograph series, the QRS Bluebird Series and the QRS Story Roll Series. I have access to the Billings Rollography and cannot find anything there. Thank you! Laura Leavell

•[ Laura Leavell wrote in 081014 MMDigest: > I would like more information on the QRS Autograph series, > the QRS Bluebird Series and the QRS Story Roll Series. I have > access to the Billings Rollography and cannot find anything there. Hello, I don't believe anyone has done a formal survey of the Q...