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Length and Diversity of MMD Letters
By Bob Klepner

Concerning the length of messages I also believe that the whole
advantage of a daily digest is that it is proper and possible to write
what one would think needs to be written--no more and no less.

Personally, with an interest primarily in coin-operated machines of all
types, I am learning far more about player pianos than I thought I
would ever want to know.  And yet, I find that I am learning all sorts
of incidental things that will or may be of use to me in some of this
correspondence.  Unlike sound cassettes, CDs or videotapes I can "fast
forward" as quick as I like and scan the text without missing something
I might want to follow more closely.  If it bores me I can whiz past
whilst others may follow the text in detail.

As far as the diversity is concerned that's another benefit, someone
may yet require information regarding specific coin-op machines or wish
to share some.  Meanwhile the news of a Mechanical Museum in Sydney and
the fairground museum was of immense interest with me and I am sure
there will be other items of interest to come so I guess I'll stay with
it in spite of all the player contributions.

Bob Klepner

 [ Player piano topics alone provide the "critical mass" to sustain the
 [ the Digest.  It's nice that we can also serve the smaller groups of
 [ subscribers with other interests.  (I haven't figured out _why_, but
 [ it seems that a greater percentage of the player piano crowd is
 [ "connected" and "on-line".)  The happy result is that all of us are
 [ learning a lot about other areas of mechanical musical instrument
 [ collecting !  -- Robbie


(Message sent Mon 8 Dec 1997, 07:50:36 GMT, from time zone GMT+1100.)

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