•Mr. John Joswick seeks these Alexander Brailowsky performances as audio recordings or, preferably, as MIDI file transcriptions of the Ampico rolls: 67681H Chopin: Etude 0p.25, No.12, C minor 69783H(1) Grieg: Papillon (Butterfly) 0p.43, No.1 69783H(2) Liszt: Au Bord d'une Source (At The Spring) 6401...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- [ Ref 040522 MMDigest, Seek Ampico Rolls Played By Alexander Brailowsky Nearly five years ago Mechanical Music Digest very graciously published an announcement listing the Brailowsky Ampico rolls I had been seeking to enable one of my contacts, M...

•Ref. http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/B/brailowsky.html I am helping John Joswick to complete the Brailowsky recording project, initiated in May 2004, to make a CD of the Ampico performances to present to Brailowsky's brother-in-law who is now 91 years old. The project suffered a big setback e...

•Bill, I have the original Ampico roll number 64023-H "Nocturne E-flat Major Op. 9 No. 2", played by Alexander Brailowsky. I also have the same tune on a Duo-Art roll: Frank Adams recut DA-236, played by Godowsky. I'm willing to loan the Ampico original to whomever for a quality recut; I suggest Tim...

•John McClelland provides the list below, with data from the 2-volume book by Larry Sitsky, "The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll" (1990), plus publisher's data. RollNr / Artist / Title Ampico rolls by Manuel de Falla 66733 Schmitz, E. Robert / Pieces Espagnoles No. 4: Andaluza 67441 Schmitz, E. Rob...

•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...

•Recently my elderly mother listened to the Rachmaninoff CD and was astounded, saying that Wayne's Telarc CD is a magnificent reflection of Rachmaninoff's playing. She had to have a copy for herself. Mom graduated from the Eastman School of music about 1927, majoring in piano and organ. Her teacher ...

•My Ampico has been playing from 'erolls' since the late 1970s and still does. My first point about 'erolls' versus real rolls is that an eroll system fitted to a pneumatic player can result in a better performance, as the 'third' valve (the electric valve) helps overcome deficiencies in the instrum...

•After three years of work, I am pleased to announce the release of 12 CDs containing recordings of over 60 Ampico artists playing 166 works from the Ampico classical catalog. The recordings were made in March 2007 at Paul Badura-Skoda's recording studio in Vienna, on a Bösendorfer Imperial piano fi...