In MMD 101104 Larry Norman wrote:

> In the late 1800s when music rolls first came out, they never
> had rubber bands on them.

The instruction sheet pasted inside the Celestina organettes from
the 1880s begins, "Remove the rubber band on music spool..."

So it would appear that the Aeolian Company (or at least their
predecessors, the Mechanical Orguinette Company) actually did use
rubber bands on their music rolls.

John Wolff
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~wolff