Back  from  the  MBSI's Mid-Am Chapter's band  organ  rally  with
      probably as much sensory overload as Jody said he  got  from  his
      talk  with  John  Malone  at  Play-Rite.   You  asked  about  the
      Wurlitzer Monster and Mammoth band organs.  (Since you  asked  on
      the net, you can forward this reply if you want to)

      The Monster or style 155 was an early trumpet organ of 100 "keys"
      which operated from  its  own unique style 155 roll.  The Mammoth
      or  style 160  was  a similar but larger (122-key) early machine.
      When in the 'teens Wurlitzer standardized its band organ rolls to
      the familiar three styles, 125, 150, and  165 (with the style 180
      organ, introduced in  1922, requiring a  fourth style  roll,  the
      180), they must have converted many Monsters and Mammoths to play
      165  rolls.   The  machines  owned  by  Bill  Black  and  by  the
      Burlington, Colo.,  PTC carousel were converted as  was  the  one
      being sold by Marty Roenigk.  I  have copies of Wurlitzer monthly
      roll bulletins for  1913  and  1914  that  show style  155  rolls
      (single-tuners) were being sold then, but not much later.

      A photocopy of  a  page from  the Wurlitzer factory shipping list
      that  Marty included in  his advertising shows  the serial number
      and specs for  the Monster he  is selling.  It mentions that  the
      organ  has  a "Jameson chest" (other organs are  noted  as having
      "new chest," "old chest," or "Jameson chest").  I wonder what the
      Jameson chest was.  That's a  new name  for  me.   More questions
      than answers always.

      According  to   what   I  heard   at   the  rally  Play-Rite  has
      enough specialty roll business from Dick Hack and his group having
      Violano and Duo-Art rolls recut to  keep Mrs. Malone busy  for  a
      year more or maybe two years.  So  I guess I'll have to have Mike
      Grant cut my  165 rolls for me.   He  is having new dies made and
      will get them from  the machinist this week  or next.  Also Wayne
      Holton talks of some people trying to  set  up  a computer driven
      Wurlitzer perforator.  Is that talk or reality, I wonder?

      Speaking of talk, there was a rumor at the rally that one of  the
      10  remaining 165's  has  been  sold  to  someone  for  $600,000.
      Unbelievalbe, and I can't begin to guess who the seller would be,
      John Malone or Hayes McClaran maybe.