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Fire at Play-Rite
By Douglas Henderson

Robin Pratt 'phoned me a few minutes ago, about a call he had concerning a major fire at the Play-Rite Music Roll Co. factory building.

The company lost the Word Roll stenciling machine, their roll inventory and Play-Rite production masters, the huge paper supply and other equip- ment, but fortunately all the roll music roll perforators were in a separate property on the other side of Turlock, California.

According to Robin another stencil device will be invented, and it might take a year for the company to start up again. No Artcraft Master Rolls were there at the time; the three-year-inventory in the Maine storage building should carry us through this period. Up to now Play-Rite has done all the duplicating for us.

[snip]

Regards in haste,
Douglas

Artcraft Music Rolls, PO Box 295, Wiscasset, ME 04578 USA
(207) 882-7420 artcraft@msn.com artcraft@wiscasset.net

(Message sent Tue 4 Feb 1997, 04:32:06 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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