There are some roll recutters that prefer to sell their output to
resellers (retailers I guess is a bad word) and then they sell the
rolls to you the collector or end user.  The reason is that if I buy
their rolls then I warehouse them.  I also pick the rolls to recut,
which means I have to pick rolls that I think will sell.

The recutter gets paid without his space being filled with boxes and
boxes of rolls.  He does not have to run to the post office every
couple of days to fill an order, in the rain, snow ... you get the
picture.  He does not have to guess what will sell and what will not
sell.  Those rolls that do not sell make great packing paper and start
taking up a lot of space quickly.

He does not have to worry that the post office lost his last copy of
a roll, which just happened to me.  He does not have to explain that
the rare original roll really did get lost in the mail, which really
does happen, so if you are sending a rare original roll then I suggest
next day service from your carrier.

So if you like music rolls for your piano then I suggest you buy some
rolls or someday those resellers and recutters will be doing something
else.  There is an Acme perforator somewhere in Ohio that, the last
I heard, is being used as a plant stand.

Don Teach