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Archival Music Roll Scanning
By Andy Struble

I have been busy catching up on the last few weeks articles
pertaining to archival roll scanning.  This is a topic I find very
interesting as a curator of a museum of mechanical instruments.
I am looking for, and private e-mail would be fine, some contact
with persons who have already successfully created a roll scanner.
I am very interested in learning details as to how practical it
would be to build one myself.

I am looking at scanning our collections of the following types
of rolls:  Ampico; Duo-art; T-100 red Welte; Lösche Jazz; Skinner
Semi-Automatic (Hammond); Aeolian Grand; and an untold number of
player piano rolls (and those odd size Kimball rolls.)

Ideally I have always thought it practical to create one extended
map so that as each type of roll is scanned, it would have it's
unique instrumentation preserved, but in a common format.

A. Struble
Music House Museum
Individual e-mails welcome to <musicmachines@chartermi.net>


(Message sent Thu 6 Jul 2006, 13:13:05 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

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