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Pianola in Chicago
By Darius Kucinskas

Mr. John A. Tuttle suggested I might find help here.  I am doing
research on Lithuanian music for the pianola.  It is still terra
incognita, even for Lithuanian musicologists.  There is only one such
roll in the Lithuanian state archives.

But I found approximately thirty rolls in the Chicago Lithuanian
Musicological Archive:

    http://www.lithuanianresearch.org/lit/muzikologija/muzikologijapradzia.htm 

Most are QRS rolls, ca.1922-1925.

But the Chicago archive does not have a pianola.  Can anyone help me
locate a working instrument in the Chicago area for playing these
rolls?  My aim is to identify the music and to record it to my laptop.

Darius Kucinskas
Kaunas University of Technology
Kaunas, Lithuania
www.dariuskucinskas.hmf.ktu.lt


(Message sent Sun 25 Oct 2009, 11:23:15 GMT, from time zone GMT+0200.)

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