Although I  had known about this group for months from  MBSI  and
AMICA publications, I only now  got around to contacting Jody and
learning what I have been missing.

   My maiden posting here is  to list the music roll catalogs that I
am aware of and to ask whether there are others that I don't know
about.   By  music  roll  catalogs  I  mean  modern-day listings,
published  or  unpublished,  which   attempt   to  enumerate   as
completely as possible all  the rolls of  a  given type known  to
have been produced.

   In  the  piano  roll  category  I   am  aware  of   the  Billings
Rollography, Charles Davis Smith's Welte opus (from having worked
with Charles on that myself), and his Duo-Art catalog.

   In the band organ roll category, there is Mike Grant's catalog of
style 125 rolls (a new ed.  of which, completely verified against
Copyright Office records, is  due  out soon), my  two catalogs of
style 150  and style  165 rolls, and  my  list  of  the  9  known
Wurlitzer style 180 rolls.

   I  am  not aware of anyone having worked on other types of rolls,
such as orchestrion rolls, at all.  There are heaps of  data  out
there for  such  work:  Dick  Howe  owns nearly complete runs  of
Wurlitzer monthly lists showing  the  rolls  for  every  kind  of
automatic instrument which they issued from 1913 to 1925; I  have
copies of Ozzie Wurdeman's notebooks listing all BAB roll masters
by  type; the Music Trades Review listed for  many years the  new
releases of  many  roll manufacturers (Charles Davis Smith's next
project was to have been an Aeolian (or was  it Ampico?) catalog,
and he was combing through a microfilm of  the MTR for such rolls
at the time of his death).

   What  about listings of Violano, Welte orchestrion, APP, Caliola,
or other rolls which have been the subject of extensive recutting
projects?  I  would think that cataloging these roll series would
be  a natural consequence of hunting them down and gathering them
for recutting.  Please add any catalogs I left out that you know
of.