Jody:¶
Heard the system crashed and never saw this posted so I'm sending you a
second copy.

Say I noticed the German fellow who just intro'd himself mentioned a guy in
the German version of AMICA who created an optical roll reader. Let's find
out about it.

Hope all is well with you and your family.

Perhaps we'll have the opportunity to speak again soon.

Thanks for an excellent service.¶
 --Marc S.

 [ Marc,
 [    Thanks for the positive feeback.  Yes, I too would like to hear more
 [ about Horst Mohr's "opto-electronic roll reader" mentioned in Water
 [ Tenten's introduciton in digest.95.09.05.
 [
 [    All is well here, although the "Iron Mountain" brush fire in San Diego
 [ county (31 Aug 95 - 02 Aug 95) got very close to the house and we evacuated
 [ our animals, the wedding photos, and (oops -- backups weren't up to date) the
 [ computers.  We were very lucky.  The brush fire made for a terrific air-show
 [ less than a mile to the south of us as air tankers and helicopters dumped fire
 [ retardent on the hillside facing our house.
 [
 [    I'm not sure how in happenned, but your article (which appears below) was
 [ received here OK the first time, but I managed to edit it into a digest
 [ which had already been sent!  Looking over the digest, it looks to me like
 [ your message arrived the afternoon of the fire and I got flustered and put it
 [ in the wrong file.  Sorry!
 [
 [ Jody

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Forwarded message:¶
Subj:    Story wanted for TV special¶
Date:    95-08-31 16:03:18 EDT¶
From:    SACHNOFF¶
To:      rolls@foxtail.com

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