•I have a Meloart word roll titled "Ting-a-ling the Bells'll Ring" and I can't find an identifying number on it anywhere (and I did look at the end). Any suggestions on finding label info? Claud Cavnar [ "Ting-a-Ling, The Bells'll Ring", by Irving Berlin (1926), [ written for the Marx Brother's stag...

•I have 10 solo-Elle and 21 Mel-O-Art rolls for sale. Please make an offer. 10% of sales goes to MMD. Rich Ingram Hesperia, California [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/22/12/06/221206_200345_IMG_4368.JPG

•Warren (Woody) Nicholas Frisino was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 22, 1900, the fifth child of Biaggio (Benjamin) and Antonia Genovese Frisino. By 1915, there were ten children, six boys and four girls, living in the Baltimore row house at 619 North Linwood. Benjamin was a barber at the Balt...

•Woody Frisino was an arranger for the one year that Mel-o-Art ran after being sold by Geo. Taneyhill who did all on a custom design Leabarjan #5 perforator which I saw. 1929 was when the company closed. Playing style? Give me a break! Douglas Henderson - Artcraft Music Rolls Wiscasset, Maine, USA h...

•L. Douglas Henderson is, as I said, very familiar with Leabarjan perforators. He was away during our recent thread on the subject -- acquiring another Leabarjan, in fact -- but subsequently I got a lot of information from him, which he said I could pass on for the record to MMD. What follows is cop...

•Following up on the subject of music roll manufacturers: I attach a list from the 1930 revised edition of "How To Publish Your Own Music Successfully". The title pretty much says it all: aspiring songwriters were advised to send their compositions to the manufacturers on the list. The book contains...

•Hello MMD readers, Recently, there have been a series of postings about the problems and solutions of taking a player instrument, usually an upright, out of one's residence and bringing it to a public event. I do believe that I've had more experience in this activity than most people, especially si...

•Dear all, In my spare time, I have been pursuing a long term ongoing project for the past 3+ years of transcribing (typing out) all monthly roll listings of all companies (mostly 88-note and reproducing) listed in the Music Trade Review (MTR) magazine, to a text-file format for easier searching and...

•I am gratified by the response to my note in this place asking for help in determining if certain Artrio-Angelus rolls have Mel-O-Dee twins [180810 MMDigest]. The feedback has been very helpful, and with the new information I received I have able to make some progress. This note is a summary of wha...

•A very kind collector loaned me a roll for scanning. Unfortunately, it's missing its box, and if there was a copy of the label on the roll leader, it's missing (the tip of the leader is missing, actually) so we don't know who is the credited artist. The roll is Mel-O-Dee 4545, which must be from 19...

•A few days ago I posted a request here for help in determining if the 4-digit number that appears just before the rewind perforation on some Artrio-Angelus popular rolls is the roll number of a related Mel-O-Dee issue [180806 MMD, Relationship of Artrio-Angelus & Melodee Rolls]. I have received sev...

•[ Ref. Artrio-Angelus Rolls Played By Eubie Blake ] I have a Mel-O-Dee roll, signed by Eubie (not to me though), of "Crazy Blues"; it's one of my favorite rolls! I have a YouTube video of it playing on a slightly out-of-tune Kimball Electramatic Organ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diDLAqmS4j0 ...

•Does anyone know the "real" manufacturer of these outstanding 88-note rolls from the 20s? Because the arrangements are such good quality, I have some recollection in the back of my mind that there were made by a subsidiary of the folks who made Duo-Art rolls (Aeolian), or Ampico? Am I right? Does a...

•In reference to Tim Baxter's question about the Mel-O-Dee rolls, these were products of the Aeolian Corporation in New York City. The Mel-O-Dee labels (brown ink on buff paper) first appeared around 1920. Prior to that, most popular and light classical Aeolian rolls appeared on either the Universal...

•Hello MMD readers and Julian Dyer, Having read the posting about Mel-O-Dee rolls, I decided to contribute a few lines about them. Aeolian realized that its jerky, inadequate and essentially "phony" system of recording rolls via vibrating pneumatic cutters was not suited for the Jazz Age and music o...

•This brief announcement about the launch of Mel-O-Dee Music Company appeared in The Music Trade Review (MTR) of July 17, 1920, page 23a: MEL-0-DEE MUSIC CO. CHARTERED Incorporated With Capital Stock of $25,000 by H. B. Tremaine and Others The Mel-O-Dee Music Co., New York, has been incorporated wit...

•In Mechanical Music Digest of Dec. 21, 1997, Dave Saul wrote about the connections between Aeolian, Mel-o-Dee and Gulbransen. I would like to add a strange little incident that happened between two of those parties: A friend had come across a Mel-o-Dee roll played by George Gershwin and mailed it t...

•Hello everybody, I have a Mel-O-Dee roll and a Duo-Art roll both played by "Henri Bergman". The Mel-O-Dee roll is "Don't Tell Her What's Happened To Me". That exact same arrangement also appears on YouTube on a Duo-Art roll supposedly played by Frank Milne. Was "Henri Bergman" a pseudonym for Frank...

•Hi all, Wayne Stahnke was inquiring if there was any connection between Artrio-Angelus and Mel-O-Dee roll companies, because of the similarities of word stencil numbers. I would actually doubt if there was any type of cooperative effort to share stencils, for a couple of reasons. If both companies ...

•Hello everyone, Does anyone have a copy of the Duo-Art roll 203836, Osman Temple March, by Lyon? I would love to hear it or have a MIDI file of it. I have it on the Mel-O-Dee roll and sometimes they had the same rendition. I'm wondering if it's the same in this case. It was played by Erlebach and M...