•Dear Sirs, For my dissertation in Musicology I am desperately looking for Koczalski's Pleyela rolls playing Chopin. Do you own any of them or can you suggest a way to find them? Thank you very much in advance for your attention to my request! Federico Foglizzo University of Pavia Italy [ The rollog...

My wife and I operate a "co-op" for reproducing rolls and have the following titles available after filling orders for my customers. These were recut by Play-Rite from originals borrowed from a well known collector and rebuilder in California. We periodically publish lists of titles and ask our cust...

H U P F E L D D E A - R O L L S for sale!!!!!!! They are originals in good playing condition. See following list for titles. They are 80.00DM each. If you want to buy the lot, please make best offer. •ROLLENNR. gespielt von TITEL KOMPONIST 25015 Harald Bauers Sonate op.27 Nr.2 L. v. Beethoven 25036 ...

Greeting! I have the following 65-note rolls for sale. Rolls are in *excellent* condition except one, as indicated in the list. Roll sizes shown after brand. Artist listed last. All boxes are intact with no tape or missing ends, etc. Best offer plus shipping takes 'em. Contact information is at the ...

•For Sale: I Quit!!! With some regret, I've decided to give up my roll recutting endeavors. I'd like to liquidate my inventory. I *will not* break up the lot, as I simply don't want to have to make more than one trip to the shipper to get everything out of my garage. I have: 480 large black roll box...

•Reading Dan Wilson's recent report from London prompted me try and pinpoint the qualities that Denis Hall has that has made him in my opinion the ideal reproducing piano restorationist. I have known Denis for years and have listened to his player grands and have never heard better. Denis not only a...

•I complied this rollography from my books. I don't know how accurate it is. ("Rollography" = Bibliography of music rolls). Juergen Hocker says that the two-volume book by Larry Sitsky, "The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll", also lists rolls recorded for Duca (Philipps) and Triphonola (Hupfeld), an...

•I've added a few more RealAudio recordings of my player-piano to my web site: http://members.aol.com/kbellison/piano.html . Too Tired (Pianostyle #22027) Pianostyle rolls have the bad habit of not listing the roll's player or author, but this is a snappy fox-trot story about a couple that's too tir...

•Hi Everyone. Ian Sanderson's note on Hupfeld rolls has decided me to send to MMD the same contribution I recently sent to Julian Dyer, who is editor of the British Player Piano Group Bulletin. Here it is. John Phillips in Hobart, Tasmania. - - - War Reparations? The other day the mailman delivered ...

•Hello MMD Readers, Some recent issues of the publication have discussed a so-called "killer" test roll for the Duo-Art, which is something of a paradox, since the art of regulating this versatile player lies primarily in "adjusting the piano to the player action", to quote Aeolian in 1918. In other...

•Robbie, You asked about Welte-Mignon roll numbers which were recorded on the LP "Legendary Masters of the Piano". I have also taken the liberty of listing recording dates if known. Most people are unaware that during the early years the recording session dates were indicated on the roll labels. The...

•Dear Friends, I would have a tendency to disagree with the story about Steinway Ampicos in a mine, unless the time period was just before World War II. During the Depression, and, I guess, anytime, if someone had enough money, the American Piano Company would install an Ampico system in almost any ...

•I received an e-mail from the Netherlands, as follows: > Dear Mister Petrak, I was searching the web for a good friend of > my grandfather, Nicolai Orloff, a great pianist and a beloved house > friend. Recordings of his are rare and, although my family has some > private recordings, we are always o...

•[ Mark Kinsler wrote in 061209 MMDigest: > There is an Internet letter circulating that shows pictures of > a marvelous mechanical musical instrument that [purportedly] was > designed and built by students at Iowa State University or some such, > and that it was designed with parts from John Deere ...

•I've been working on an article for the PPG Bulletin about the Duo-Art Audiographic series rolls, and looking at the listings in Charles Davis Smith's catalogue leaves me wondering about the attribution of some of these rolls to pianist. Specifically, Audiographic rolls were issued in a number of g...

•Here is Peter Phillips' answer to my email. Dear Randolph, What a story! It gets better too. I also need a photo of Herbert Clair, and you've not only sent me a Rybner, but Clair as well. Many, many thanks. I was also sent a photo by another MMDer of Rybner at an old age, which I've attached for yo...

•Over recent years I have taken note of several Nicole Freres Grand Format boxes that do not play overtures. The first that came to my attention plays two stunning pieces, each on two revolutions. A recording can be found on the following CD, produced by the Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaf...

Dear Jody, I just received a virus alert this morning concerning a new trojan horse virus with the name PKZIP300.ZIP which will affect hard disks and modems at 14.4 and higher. "This is an extremely destructive virus and there is not yet a way of cleaning up this one". I don't know if it's appropria...

•[ Charlie Moore wrote about new musical arrangements in 020626 [ MMDigest and inquired about licensing and fees. Harald's reply [ below was lost somewhere and wasn't received at MMD until now, [ two weeks late! -- Robbie Hello Charlie, Ed, and all -- No music arrangements this time, but another, im...

•What fun it is to read this list every day. The 2/16 edition, for instance, which leads with renowned experts in the musical box field giving selfless guidance to one very lucky guy who happens to own a two-disc Symphonion/Polyphon -- including an absolute hoot-out-loud sequence of variations on Ge...