•Dear MMDers: I have sought Lindbergh rolls for years and 'Lucky Lindy' is my favorite. The best of 8 versions I have on rolls is the Ampico 208941-E, played by Vincent Lopez (probably Adam Carroll). Other Lindy titles include 'Lindbergh The Eagle of the USA', 'Chamberlin and Lindy', 'Colonel Lindbe...

•I heard from a collector that the QRS roll of "Lucky Lindy" is rare. Is this roll or "Lindbergh" rare? I'd be surprised if it is. I have a modest roll collection and I've got both of those titles. I paid 50 cents for "Lucky Lindy" and about a dollar for "Lindbergh". Damon Atchison [ The really grea...

•I foolishly gave away my copy of "Lindbergh - Eagle of the USA" when I sold a piano many years ago, then discovered it had gone out of print when I attempted to replace it. It was one of my favorites, and I'd really like to have it again. Anyone have a copy they'd be willing to sell? Cheers! Roger ...

•Hello all -- I have uploaded a video to YouTube featuring my home-built Wurlitzer style 105+ playing a song from an early roll entitled, "Triumphant Lindberg March". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xysOimujJzU This is my first attempt to include some old photos that may add interest concerning the h...

•The march "Triumphant Lindbergh" was composed by Harry J. Lincoln, who is pretty famous and well represented on band organ rolls. So it is surprising that Burl Updyke didn't find any information about the tune. "Triumphant Lindbergh" was copyrighted January 7, 1928, and is one of the eight Lincoln ...

•38 marches (and two waltzes) by Harry J. Lincoln: American Emblem Aurora The Bade of Honor (1918 arrangement) Blaze of Honor Cannonade Capitol City The Captain Circus Life Electric Current Emblem of Peace The Flash Light For All and Forever The Gallant Hero (1920 arrangement) [Golden Wedding. waltz...

•Hi group, Maybe the tune that you are looking for is "There's A Little Box Of Pine On The '7:29'", QRS Roll number 5542, originally Imperial Ind. Corp., U.S.A., Mountain Tune Played by Scott and Waters, by Handman & Goodman. A couple of other melodramatic tear-jerkers are: "Picture That Is Turned T...

•In the discussion about music rolls about flying machines let us also not forget "You Can't Walk Away From An Aeroplane" which Wurlitzer already cut into all three band organ scales. It's roll #3127 in the Style 125 scale, I believe. Then also there are the many tributes to aviation in the piano ro...

•One of the lots of random eBay rolls I bought awhile back included a roll that had somehow been re-rolled the wrong way. The result was that the bass and treble were swapped. It was playable like that, and the result was pretty interesting! I was able to get the paper rolled back on in the proper d...

Although it is completely true that any work copyrighted more than 75 years ago is now in the public domain, the reverse is not necessarily true. That is, it is not necessarily true -- though it usually is -- that a work copyrighted within the past 75 years is still protected by copyright in 1997. F...

•Dear MMDers: I recently received a request from an older gentlemen here in Georgia that I copy my piano roll rendition of "Lucky Lindy", Imperial Roll # 06560 (played by ??? - no artist listed - maybe Kortlander). My piano tuner (also a player piano technician) noticed "Lucky Lindy" in my collectio...

•Three Stories Concerning Mechanical Music I recently saw two things on TV that I thought might be of interest to mechanical music fans, and they reminded me of a third thing that I will save for last, for reasons that will soon be obvious. The first thing is that Turner Classic Movies was showing a...

•Just a note to let you know that the Jelly Roll Morton page has been updated with some tremendous items of interest. New data is indicated by a "NEW" revolving button; just scroll down the page until you meet the logo(s). Over the past week some terrific new and fully documented information has bee...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I have found the lyrics to the song "Ham se nicht den kleinen Cohn geseh'n?". An interesting issue is that this song was also recorded (22.01.1929) by the "Comedian Harmonists" in a medley called "Anno dazumal - medley, part II". Interesting beca...

•The following is from a wonderful old populist rant called "America's 60 Families" by Ferdinand Lundberg, published in 1937 by Vanguard Press. Assuming you can find a copy, it can be found in: Chapter: "Extravagance Amid Poverty" Sub-chapter: "Pipe Organs" In my copy (A "first edition" woo-hoo!) it...

Hi all! While reading through the USENET newsgroup 'rec.music.ragtime' today I found an announcement of a *wonderful* new Ragtime WWW page devoted to contemporary *Swedish* Ragtime piano music! The site is run by Oleg Mezjuev (29-years-young) living in J=E4rf=E4lla, Sweden (though he was originally ...

... The end of an era ... Wally Rose, a key figure in the resurrection of ragtime in the early 1940s, died last Sunday, January 12. He was 83. I received a letter from Peter Mintun last week telling that Wally was then in a pleasant convalescent home in Walnut Creek, CA, enjoying the view. It closes...

•Hello all; Like Tony Marsico, I have a number of the albums that Johnny Maddox produced with the title of "The World's Greatest Piano Rolls" which is the name I remember them by. I haven't looked at them for years, but, it seems to me that I remember reading on the liner notes that these were 88-no...