Dear Jody,

Robin Pratt sent the following info to me concerning the Carousel
Museum in North Tonawanda. You may wish to post this as others might be
interested in it also.....  Mike Walter

> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:22:53 -0500
> From: PIANOLA@aol.com
> To: bf@freenet.buffalo.edu, 105@Freenet.Buffalo.EDU
> Subject: Wurlitzer stuff
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>      In regard to your Wurlitzer posting, AMICA member Don Rand of
> Thomaston, Maine was the person responsible for rescuing the
> perforators and all of the master rolls from Playrite/John Malone and
> eventually offering them to the museum.  Just some details for your
> records.  In the Wurlitzer issue (July-August 1995, Vol.32, Number 4)
> published by AMICA, there is a record/history (page 232) of how that
> whole deal came down with Don Rand.  In fact the Museum ordered a case
> of that issue to sell in their gift shop!  The Merry-Go-Round Museum in
> Sandusky did likewise.  One of AMICA's better efforts.