Fellow Automatic Music Buffs:

 In real life (beyond my player pianos and other toys) I produce and write
television shows for the networks and cable tv. Perhaps some of you caught
our History of Rock 'N Roll which we produced for Time-Warner earlier this
year or our Ed Sullivan retrospective specials. One of the more fun shows
that I have the fortune to produce is called "The Hunt For Amazing
Treasures." This show, (in case you missed its March 1 airdate,) is
re-running Sunday Sept 10 on NBC from 7-10 pm. If you know any Nielsen
families...

The reason for my note to this digest is to invite suggestions for stories
about valuable automatic musical instruments  that may have been found in
unusual circumstances. We define treasure very widely, from rare documents to
sunken Spanish gold. The idea here is to find a story for our next special
that can promote our hobby, but must be visually interesting to the average
viewer. This means that the story needs visual documentation -- photos or
video of the instrument in its original location and condition, photos or
videos of its restoration and then, the final glorious performance done live
for our cameras.

Does anybody have a good one for us? Remember the key here is visual
documentation. Without photos or video, a good story is just that -- a story,
and won't work for television.

I look forward to hearing any and all suggestions.

Thanks,

--Marc Sachnoff