Randolph -- We had a Friends of the Pianola Institute committee meeting
today and I mentioned your enquiry.  Rex Lawson says you can find a lot
of Voteys simply by putting the word into a search engine on the Web,
which he's already done.

There is, for example, a Votey Building at the University of Vermont.
This Votey was a Dean of the university and, Rex says, was a brother
or cousin of the E S Votey we know of.  There is also a living Edwin
Scott Votey who is E S Votey's grandson, and with whom Rex is in touch.
He has likewise traced a number of Tremaines as well.

This activity may seem bizarre in the States where Aeolian is thought
of as no better than an earlier Microsoft, that ended up making junk
products and bringing the whole name of its trade into disrepute.  In
the UK, Aeolian faded from the scene in 1931, leaving only the memory
of stout, well-known, reliable products.  But as Rex says, when you
do the research, it turns out it really crashed in 1924 and everything
after that was smoke and mirrors.  He can be contacted on
<pianola@lineone.net>.

Dan Wilson, London