If you draw a blank (pun here?) on your roll paper source, I
suggest you contact Dan Wilke, the auction man at QRS, not with
regard to the paper QRS is selling in small and expensive lots,
but in regard to his activity at the Herschell Carrousel Factory
Museum. He and a group of others have been involved in getting
the Wurlitzer roll-making equipment purchased by the museum last
year set up and running to produce band organ rolls. Not that
you necessarily need paper of the same quality as ba band organ
roll paper for indoor piano use, but Dan should know where bulk
paper can be bought. Then that paper can quickly and easily be
trimmed to size on the Wurlitzer paper trimmer, which is one of
the machine acquired by the museum. It is working, I am told.
Most perforators I have seen do not use pre-trimmed paper, but
trim as they perforate. Wurlitzer's perforators were the
exception; they did use pre-trimmed paper. Hence Wurlitzer's
ownership of the paper slitter. I'm not what advantage Wurlitzer
saw in using pre-trimmed paper. I am told they had to shut down
their roll department when the humidity in North Tonawanda rose
too high. But on the other hand, I suppose that if they had run
trim-as-you-perforate machines and just kept on, no matter what
the humidity, they would have sold some rolls that would track
poorly once they were in use under normal conditions of humidity.
Anyway, as a last resort, I'd give Dan a ring at QRS and tell him
what you need.
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