88-note Classical Rolls

Karl Ellison asks where to find classical music on 88-note rolls.
The answer is England, because the greatest interest was always
there and after 1929 or so the Aeolian Co sourced all its
classical rolls from the plant in Hayes, Middlesex.

Try Steve Cox, Laguna Rolls, (dealer) and

Frances Broadway, "Post-Bid Enterprise", London (postal auction)

in the AMD resources list.

Duo-Art Do-Nothing Snakebites

I've never heard two restorers agree on why some DA rolls code
their theme lower than the accompaniment. However, where
snakebites appear with zero theme power, I've heard it said that
this enabled easier playing of DA rolls on plain Themodist
pumpers, where on the Duo-Art the emphasis put in on the
accompaniment side was enough but a foot-player would need to have
the note brought out a bit using the "theme" facility. Since DAs
were often issued without the coding as hand-played rolls, this
could have made the transfer editing simpler too.

Dan Wilson