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65-note Piano Rolls?
By Larry Norman

Hi, Kathy,

The subject "Seek 65-note piano rolls" and the body of your email saying
"I am wondering where I can find piano rolls for a 65-key player piano"
with such little information, makes me suspicious that you are not
looking for 65-note rolls for a 65-key player piano, but that you have a
65-key player piano that is a spinet model made in the late 1960's or
early 1970's that actually plays standard 88-note player piano rolls.

So, we need a little more information to tell you what type of rolls
play on your player piano.

1. Is your player a push-up player that sits in front of a piano or is
the player built into the piano?

2. Is your piano a huge monster built back around 1900 that weighs a ton
or is it a more modern small-sized spinet piano?

3. How to tell if your player piano is 88-note or 65-note?  Take a short
wooden ruler and hold it in front of the tracker bar and count how many
holes there are in one inch.  If you count six holes per inch, then you
do have a 65-note player.  If you count nine holes per inch, then you do
have an 88-note player mechanism.

The 88-note mechanism is better, as you can get just about any type of
music you want.  Do you already have any rolls that play?  What do the
boxes say?  Perhaps Aeolian, or QRS?

In any event, whichever type of roll you are looking for, you can find
both types of rolls for sale at my website.  My website is at:

    http://home.earthlink.net/~rollertunes

Also QRS Music Roll Company is still in business, and many other people
offer rolls.  You can find them on the MMD website under "Links" or
visit the "Store" for another great link to the "Player Piano and
Mechanical Music Exchange."  Have fun and let us know what player type
you really have.

Musically,
Larry Norman



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