In December, 2003, I received a request for a list of rolls that
I produce for the John Smith format busker organ.  Along with the
request was a 20-note arrangement using the Carl Frei scale.

I sent the catalog, and played the MIDI file.  It was excellent.
In less than an hour, Hiddo van Os of Leiden, The Netherlands, and
I had made an agreement to purchase his arrangements for perforating
music rolls.

Hiddo has spent a good portion of his life arranging music for
larger scales.  His holiday trip to England resulted in the purchase of
a John Smith organ, and when he got back to Holland, he was a bit short
of rolls.  Hiddo's arrangements began arriving almost daily and, 52
arrangements later, they are still coming.  I sent him copies of all of
his arrangements in roll form.  He now has a sizeable library of music!

I have a new web page of some of Hiddo's work.  There is also a CD for
sale of 21 of his arrangements.  Sound snippets are included on the web
page.  They were recorded, with one exception, on a Castlewood organ
that I assembled last year.  There is one selection played on a MIDI
controlled organ that I built.  You will have no problem noticing the
difference.  The URL for the web page is
  http://www.edgaida.com/26note.html

Coming soon: standard 20-note busker organs rolls, 110 mm wide, which
will play on a large number of organs.  A number of "grinders" are
Alpha testing sample rolls I sent them.  The jury, as they say, is
still out.  I will keep you posted.

Ed Gaida
San Antonio, Texas - where it is already ninety degrees!