You will recall that our daughter Ardyth<alohuid@felix.vcu.edu>has been a
subscriber since Jan 1. She has been forwarding the Digests to me.  I have
decided that I would like to be a subscriber and offer the following bio
for you:

Hello from Del Lohuis-

I live in Roswell, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.  My wife Carol and I have
have been collectors of automatic musical instruments since 1968.  We are
members of MBSI, AMICA, and the Reed Organ Society.  We have a modest sized
collection of cylinder and disc music boxes, paper roll played organettes,
reed organs and three reproducing pianos.

My e-mail address is

      "Delmont J. Lohuis" <102745.2663@compuserve.com>

[which may also be written as]

      102745.2663@compuserve.com (Del Lohuis)

[or just]

      102745.2663@compuserve.com

I would like to  have sent to me, a number of the Automatic Music Digests
which were distributed before our daughter became a member. I am uncertain
whether I can request them directly through the "anonymous FTP" server,
since I am not connected directly to the Internet, only through Compuserve.
(I do have a hard copy listing of the Digests distributed in 1995.)

I have read the Digests distributed since Jan. 1 with a great deal of interest.
Thank you for the very great amount of time you have devoted to editing and
sending the Digests.

Del Lohuis

 [ Editor's Note:  Del, welcome aboard.  I think that Compuserve will allow
 [ you to FTP the files in our digest.  You (and anyone else interested) may
 [ retrieve them from:
 [
 [          ftp://ftp.foxtail.com/pub/automatic-music/digests
 [
 [ or you may access zipped versions of these from:
 [
 [          ftp://ftp.foxtail.com/pub/automatic-music/digests.dos
 [
 [ If you would like the back-issues mailed, I'll do that -- its no problem.
 [ However, at one time Compuserve used to charge for incoming Internet mail.
 [ I don't think they do this any more, but be aware that the 1995 digests
 [ contain 42,000 lines of text totaling about 1.7 Meg.  Before I send that
 [ much to anyone I want to double check that that is really what you intend.
 [ Please send confirmation to:  rollreq@foxtail.com
 [ Thanks
 [ Jody