When Ed Gaida says of the Star perforator, "It was one hell of a
way to make a player piano roll," does he mean to say it was a good
way or a bad way?  The expression "hell of a way" can have either
interpretation.

I'd like to know more about how it was to use the Star, as opposed
to using a Leabarjan perforator.

Matthew Caulfield
Irondequoit, New York

 [ Walter Tenten discovered the patent number [030903 MMDigest]:
 [
 [ http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT1427336 
 [   Machine for Making Perforated Music Rolls
 [   Patent number: 1427336
 [   Filing date: Jan 6, 1921
 [   Issue date: Aug 29, 1922
 [   Inventor: E. W. HOPPER
 [
 [ -- Robbie