It believe it was collector Mike Montgomery who coined the name
"Rollography", inspired by the "Discography" which lists all the
trivia you need to know about jazz phonograph records!

This is an example of the fields I used in my data base of music rolls
played by Fats Waller (or often J. Lawrence Cook):
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date \number \title                 \composers       \recuts  \comments

8/23  QRS    Haitian Blues          by Lizzie Miles   CC-244, BT-137046
      2304                          & Spencer Williams

(unk) Clark  Haitian Blues         (adapted from      JC-86,  MS-89.4
      A-442  (A-roll)               QRS 2304

6/24  QRS    Clearing House Blues,  by Webb           CC-314
      2661   The                    & Honesty

8/24  Stand  A New Kind Of Man      by Sidney Clare   CC-245, BT-137219
      0677   With a New Kind        & Leon Flatow
             Of Love For Me
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The first entry for "Haitian Blues" might look like this in the text
file version (.TXT or .TAB or .MRG) of the data base:

8/23\QRS 2304\Haitian Blues\L. Miles & Sp. Williams\CC-244, BT-137046\

In this example I used the backslash (\) as the field separator;
another common separator for spreadsheets and data bases is the
tab character.  (But in e-mail its action is unpredictable.)

Other useful data fields not shown here are

    The condition of the roll in my collection
    The guy who owns the roll sitting in my collection
    The guy who owns an original copy (not a recut)
    The guy I think I loaned my roll to
    The guy I think I borrowed my roll from (!!)

I would like to trade this type of data with others. Anyone interested?

Robbie Rhodes