I also published an article in the COAA Journal, around 2004 or '05,
about hand-punching rolls for crank organs.  I use my own program,
which runs only under Linux, and an old-fashioned dot-matrix printer
that can take continuous fanfold paper.  I then cut out the holes using
a hollow center punch plus an X-Acto hobby knife.

One could use any of the PC composing programs, such as the bargain
priced "Noteworthy Composer", to enter the music with the mouse and
output a MIDI file which could then be edited and printed by Midiboek
or Rollook.

I agree that if you only want to make a few rolls for yourself, hand
punching is the best way to go.  It is time-consuming, however.
I later built a MIDI interface into my organ so I could play directly,
and I haven't punched a roll in quite some time.

Also, there are people who will take your MIDI file and prepare
a professional quality roll from it.  They usually make three copies,
so you have two spares to sell to other grinders.

By the way, I recently expanded my composing program to make rolls
for the Symphonia (similar to Celestina?) 20-note organette, but so
far I have made only a short test roll (itself a most useful item).

Mike Knudsen