In response to my message in Digest 970404, Robbie Rhodes asked:

> [ I'm always concerned that music box subjects don't become swamped by
> [ by player piano talk.  Could you please check, Bob, for occurrences of
> [ the phrases "music box" and "musical box."  -- Robbie

Well, I can't do exactly what you want, but I am able to count how many of
the articles contain a particular string and give you that number.

I looked for the strings shown below, and in the right-hand column, I show
how many articles contained the specified string (not word). Hence, when
looking for "piano" it is possible that the word "piano" doesn't appear,
but "pianolist" is within that article. It's a good approximation of what
Robbie's looking for.

   Looking for                                Found
   -------------------------------------      -----
   "piano"                                    2,303 articles
   "organ" or "orgel"                         1,137
   "music box" or "musical box"                 448
   "orchestrion"                                195
   "nickelodeon"                                160
   "violano"                                     84

Remember that there have been a total of 4,887 articles through March 31, I
guess it confirms what we already knew: we talk about pianos a lot more
than music boxes.

Bob Fitterman
bobf@ilx.com