Dear O-roll enthusiasts;

I must admit I am not a regular fan of O-rolls.  I was one of those who
cracked jokes about "O-roll machines play at three speeds, slow, slower and
slowest".  Musically, I always found the arrangements lacking "punch and pep"
and to be sketchy at best with the solo melody.

BUT I MUST TELL YOU, I was absolutely floored when I heard George Bogatko's
new arrangement of "Frosty the Snowman"!!

He has taken the O-roll into the direction of utilizing ALL of the musical
potential it was designed to have, _without_ sacrificing the original
stylistic qualities.  In other words, if one of the old timers who originally
arranged O-rolls was still alive and kept up with modern arranging thinking,
plus had outstanding musical skills and Taste, he might come close to what
Bogatko is doing.

I can only hope that he will arrange many 10 tune rolls for us with vacuum
based midi systems :- )

S.K.Goodman

P.S. No I'm not his publicist!

 [ Editor's Note:  I had a chance to listen to an 8-bit Mono, 11khz
 [ copy of this tune on a sound card today and I was greatly entertained.
 [ In tomorrow's digest there will be an article by George about it.
 [ He has temporarily put the .WAV file on his FTP server.  I hope to
 [ get permission to put it on mine.  Temporarily, you can FTP
 [ the .WAV file:
 [
 [      ftp://ftp.intac.com/pub/intac/users/gbogatko/oroll.wav
 [
 [ More on this from George tomorrow.
 [
 [ Jody