Story wanted for TV special
By Marc Sachnoff
Fellow Automatic Music Buffs:
In real life (beyond my player pianos and other toys) I produce and write television shows for the networks and cable tv. Perhaps some of you caught our History of Rock 'N Roll which we produced for Time-Warner earlier this year or our Ed Sullivan retrospective specials. One of the more fun shows that I have the fortune to produce is called "The Hunt For Amazing Treasures." This show, (in case you missed its March 1 airdate,) is re-running Sunday Sept 10 on NBC from 7-10 pm. If you know any Nielsen families...
The reason for my note to this digest is to invite suggestions for stories about valuable automatic musical instruments that may have been found in unusual circumstances. We define treasure very widely, from rare documents to sunken Spanish gold. The idea here is to find a story for our next special that can promote our hobby, but must be visually interesting to the average viewer. This means that the story needs visual documentation -- photos or video of the instrument in its original location and condition, photos or videos of its restoration and then, the final glorious performance done live for our cameras.
Does anybody have a good one for us? Remember the key here is visual documentation. Without photos or video, a good story is just that -- a story, and won't work for television.
I look forward to hearing any and all suggestions.
Thanks,
--Marc Sachnoff
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