Recently Craig Brougher wrote, in part, to MDD:

> It's a good exercise to play a mod rock number on a player piano once
> in awhile to remind ourselves just how lucky we are.  Ask yourself,
> "If this is the music player pianos had started with in the teens,
> and these represented the bulk of the old rolls remaining, and there
> were no songs like S'Wonderful, or "You are My Lucky Star," how long
> do we think player pianos would have lasted?"

I couldn't possibly agree more!  Recently, while working in a customers
home, I became aware of the "noise" coming from their teenager's room.
As I listened I realized that, taking 'A' below middle C, Middle 'C',
'D' and 'E' as an example, those 4 notes in various mindless groupings,
made up the entire melody line of the "song"!  4 notes!  Imagine how
great that would sound reproduced on a player piano!

Dave Hall