Hello, anyone has information about the invention of Don Angelo
Barbieri called the "Automusicograph"?  This musical "typewriter"
was used by Pietro Mascagni in recording his opera "Isabeau"
in 1910/1911.

"The Music Typewriter Co., Ltd" (directors J. T. Sibley and F. P.
Mannock) was the title of the company registered in London who
acquired the rights of Barbieri & Co. for the "Automusicograph".

Thank you!
Giorgio Farabegoli
Italy

 [ The Washington Herald newspaper of September 14, 1910, on page 4,
 [ re-published an article from the London Daily Express which
 [ described the machine thusly:
 [
 [ "... His apparatus consists of a metal frame containing a row of
 [ thin steel bars.  The frame is fixed behind the panel of a cottage
 [ piano so that each bar rests on a key, and when a note is struck on
 [ the piano the bar rises and brings a small inked wheel into contact
 [ with a revolving roll of paper."
 [
 [ Thus the paper was marked with inked lines similar to the paper
 [ 'master' rolls marked by the Welte-Mignon recording piano, but
 [ without Welte's complex mercury-trough switches and magnets.  Ref.
 [ http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1910-09-14/ed-1/seq-4/ 
 [ -- Robbie