Full Scale Piano Rolls
By Jim Canavan
I picked up a wonderful roll in a local junk shop the other day: an 88-note Themodist Metrostyle roll of Fucik's "Thunder & Blazes" (aka "Entry of the Gladiators"). Boy, when they said "88-note" they *meant* it -- it's the first roll I've had (in my brief 3 years of roll collecting) that uses note #1 and note #87 (I was really hoping it would use #88, too!).
Anyway, it got me wondering: how often were these top and bottom notes used in piano rolls? I know a lot of later pianos only use 80 playing notes, but my York/Standard dates from 1925, and fortunately has all 88. Now if only it was a Themodist! :)
Jim Canavan
Alexandria, VA
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