Howdy!

My name is Ed Chaban.  Some of you may recognize me as the proprietor
of "The Patriot Piano Roll Company"  I've been providing recuts of
AMPICO and Duo-Art rolls for the last three years.

What I do is publish a list of titles and ask my customers to "vote"
for those titles they'd be interested in buying. This seems to be the
only economically feasable method of servicing a very small market.
Making up inventory without knowing if there are buyers is a recipe for
disaster.  We use the services of Play-Rite in nearby Turlock CA to do
our recutting.  We then package the rolls in high quality boxes with
reproductions of the original label and ship them to our customers.

Anyway,  I've been using my personal collection and the collections of
a few dedicated customer/collectors as a source of "master rolls".  I'm
rapidly depleting my resources and need your help!  If any of you are
willing to lend me your rolls so that others may enjoy some fine music
for their beloved instruments, I'd be most obleiged.

What's in it for you?  Free recuts!!  For every roll of yours that we
recut, we'll give you two free rolls.  Simply send a list of rolls you
think are dandy and we'll run them in our next list.  We'll contact you
if your rolls see enough demand to warrant recutting.  We'll pay for
any shipping or insurance costs and let you choose from any rolls we
have in stock or will be recutting.

This is not a huge money making venture for me.  In fact, I've seen
losses in two of the last three years.  My motivation is to provide a
source of beautiful music to those of us who can't afford to pay huge
amounts of money for auction rolls or buy entire collections at estate
sales.

Even if you think your collection is big enough, won't you please
consider loaning us some of your favorites?  The Malones at Play-Rite
have a long and respected reputation for treating valuable originals
with the utmost care. Think about the generations of young people who
will enjoy the music your helped to preserve by allowing your rolls to
be reproduced.

Be well!

-Ed Chaban