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Duo-Art Organ Music Roll Catalog On-Line
By Terry Smythe

Special thanks to Ed Gaida for graciously sharing a number of roll
catalogs with me, which I'm starting to scan.   One among them is
an undated Duo-Art Organ Music Roll Catalog A, published by The
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Boston, Mass.

This 14-page catalog is nicely displayed in column format, making it a
good choice for OCR conversion, versus conversion to Adobe Acrobat PDF
format.  The result is a tiny Excel spreadsheet containing 445 entries,
facilitating searching and sorting.    That does not mean it lists 445
different rolls.  This catalog lists a number of rolls alphabetically
several times under different spellings.

The catalog does not indicate if the listing is for 176-note
reproducing rolls, or for 116-note non-reproducing rolls.  However,
I've checked a number of the entries against some 176-note reproducing
rolls that I am currently scanning, and there appears to be
concurrence.

As OCR was used to convert the catalog, there may be some spelling
errors within the catalog.  I've picked up a few and corrected them,
but I am not infallible.   Apologies for those undetected.  The little
catalog may be downloaded from  http://members.shaw.ca/paud122/docs.htm

Thanks also to Robbie Rhodes and Marc Kaufman for their assistance and
guidance in helping me through the front-end learning curve of this new
adventure.  Stay tuned for other documents as time and energy permit.

Regards,
Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm


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