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Piano Rolls with European Lyrics
By Bob Billings

Richard Moody asks if there were any Czech rolls made.  Yes, QRS issued
quite a few of them in the '20s.  As well as Slovak, Slavish (okay,
linguists: what is Slavish?), Serb, Croat, Polish, Ukrainian, to name a
few from the general area.  The Czech rolls were labeled "Bohemian".
Many of them were played (arranged?) by A. Mares.  Sorry, we don't have
any.

We are starting to catalog QRS foreign rolls, so any info will be
appreciated.  Depending on space available and other factors, this data
may show up in the next volume of the Rollography.

Bob Billings

 [ I bet that "Slavish" is a corruption of the German adjective
 [ "slawisch", meaning "Slavonic" -- the family of Slavic languages.
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Wed 16 Jul 1997, 04:10:55 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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