I received a recut of NOS roll no. 51 when I purchased a Reproduco
piano/pipe organ recently.  In the MMD Gallery there is a listing
of Capitol OS and NOS rolls compiled by Robbie Rhodes with help from
friends.  Roll No. 51 says "Russian folk songs?".  The tunes on my
roll are listed as:

1  Song of the Volga Boatman
2  Orientale
3  Melodie
4  La Boheme Overture
5  La Cinquantine
6  Persian Song
7  La Czarine
8  Madame Butterfly Overture

My Reproduco has the smaller spoolbox to play "88 note" style rolls.
My roll No. 51 is mounted on an "O" roll size spool, and must be cut
down into several smaller rolls to play on my instrument.  I found
I was not able to do it on this particular roll.

This recut roll was made on a very stiff and heavy brown paper.  When
I try to coil it tightly around a small spool, it wants to spring open,
like letting go of a tightly wound coil spring.  Even in the spoolbox,
the feed spool will uncoil while trying to play the roll.  As a result,
the paper will not stay tight against the face of the tracker bar and
so many tracker holes are uncovered including the Motor Shutoff and
Re-roll holes and the piano does not know what to do.  (The paper is
so stiff, I don't know how it ever would have conformed to the face the
trackerbar to play properly.)

I believe this roll will have to go to someone who has the theatre
style Reproduco with "O" roll size spools.  Those spoolboxes feed the
roll differently, and the paper is on a large diameter spool, which
might just work.  It quite surprised me that someone would make a recut
on such stiff paper, with such resistance to being coiled tightly.

Jud Murphy

 [ I recently amended the list of OS and NOS rolls with new data
 [ from Mike Jardin and James Williams, and your description of
 [ your copy of NOS 51 matches the revised NOS roll list now at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/MMMedia/Reproduco/index.html 
 [ -- Robbie