[ Jason L. Balcom wrote in 110404 MMDigest:

> ... I cannot help but wonder if anyone has compiled a rollography
> of Artecho and Apollo rolls ... Is such a task overdue?

Definitely overdue, Jason!  However, I fear that there are not many
of these pianos around, and so not really much reason to do the work
involved.  My 4-foot-10-inch Wurlitzer grand (the smallest grand
piano I've ever seen) is also the _only_ one I've ever seen, here in
California!  I know that the Art-Echo system was found mostly in the
Midwest, and never found wide acceptance on either coast.

Out here in California I have found exactly _one_ Art-Echo roll in
many years of searching.  I do have approximately 60 rolls, including
QRS Apollo and Art-Echo rolls, that I still have to catalog.  While
they may be common further east, they're almost unknown out here.

Bob Loesch
Northern California