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Unknown March Tunes on Reproduco Roll
By Robbie Rhodes

Douglas Heffer seeks help to identify some unknown marches on a
Reproduco roll with no leader or label and with an unknown number
of tunes missing after the leader.  He sent audio recordings of
his restored Reproduco piano-organ playing the existent tunes of
the incomplete roll, which I will place at the MMD Sounds site,
http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Sounds/index.html 

I recognized the first two songs and found comparison recordings
on YouTube:

(a) Rotary March (Joseph M. Hahn, 1916)
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6EfcfzISh4 
(b) Under The Double Eagle (J. F. Wagner, 1902)
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AwIWi6r0p4 
(c) ?
(d) ?
(e) ?

At http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/MMMedia/Reproduco/os&nos1.html 
is a partial catalog of Reproduco rolls.  "Rotary March" and "Under
The Double Eagle" appear on roll OS-196.  Unfortunately, we don't
know what songs follow after "Under The Double Eagle".  The (recut)
long roll was split into two portions and mounted on Ampico medium
spools so that it could be played in a standard 88-note spool frame
but we have song titles for only the first of the two (smaller) rolls.

Robbie Rhodes
Etiwanda, Calif.

P.S. This message was sent during the leap second of 30 June 2012;
See  ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat 


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