[ Ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO-eiE1lhFY ]

I am very familiar with Wurlitzer roll perforator no. 12 which is now
operating in the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum in North Tonawanda 
and still punching out Wurlitzer rolls under the skilled hand of 
Douglas Herschberger.

But watching the YouTube video of that machine (which was posted by 
Karl Schroder on the 20.02.22 MMD and which I was previously unaware 
of; thanks, Karl), I was newly amazed at how well the punches, linkages,
pins, and rods of that perforator have stood up under the hammering 
delivered to them millions, billions, trillions of times over the life 
of their service, first in the Wurlitzer factory's Roll Department and 
now in the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum.

Perforator no. 12 is still working today, long after all its fellow
Wurlitzer perforators have ended their lives in the dump.

Matthew Caulfield
Irondequoit, New York