Hello All --  Regarding Mike Murray's recent article about some of
his piano rolls tearing on the left spool side on rewind, I again state
the solution that has worked for me over the last 40 years of playing
rolls on my wonderful Cable-Nelson upright.

Remove your left spool flange and wind some tape around it so that
when you put it back it can be pulled out a little and allow the paper
to have room to move left and right without tearing.  When rewound,
just tamp the roll down on the right flange, tighten a bit with the
left flange in and then pull it out again.

I have many old and brittle rolls and, with rewinding slowly, have
almost _never_ torn one.  Also -- and I know there are those who are
against it -- remove the lower brake.  The tight tension is death to
old rolls!

Good luck, Marc Goodman
Cleveland, Ohio