As a few of you are aware, I am in the embryonic stages of forming an
88-note player-roll-making concern.  I would like to include instructions
on our web page of how to be a "Pianolist" so as to render the
performances more musically.

I have heard that during the player piano's hey-day, there were
instruction booklets on how to make a plain ol' 88-note player sound
more musical, by judicious use of the separate bass and treble levers,
pumping more or less intensely, creating accents in proper places, etc.

Does anyone have a "period" instruction booklet from which a photocopy
could be made?

Thanks,

Tim Baxter p/k/a Meliora Music Rolls