Roger Waring said on the above subject [021129 MMDigest]:

> Thousands?  I don't know.  But it would not surprise me.

Somewhere in the MMD Archive is a more accurate memory than I could
muster now of Paul Young, proprietor of the Autoplayer player repair
and sales shop in Slough, 25 miles west of London, telling me around
1978 that after advertising in an antiques magazine he was being
offered _five_ Weber or Steck 88-note or pedal-only Duo-Art uprights
_every week_ from different people in the Thames Valley _alone._
(Thames Valley is the east-west 60-mile strip of Southend, London,
Reading, Swindon).

He could afford to go and collect only one or two of these a month.
I will bargain that most of those instruments are still there.

Dan Wilson

 [ I searched for "Paul Young" and "Slough", and I found:
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 [ 960606 MMD: New Duo-Art Rolls in England (Dan Wilson)
 [ 971112 MMD: English Duo-Art Market (Dan Wilson, London)
 [ 980223 MMD: Slough of Despond was Slough of Hope (Julian Dyer)
 [ 991001 MMD: Frequently Asked Questions & ... (Dan Wilson, London)
 [ 010708 MMD: Surviving Player Pianos & ... (Dan Wilson, London)
 [
 [ -- Robbie