Storing Music Rolls
By Spencer Chase
I was one of the lucky ones to get some of the rolls from the Tushinsky music collection sold by Butterfield & Butterfield recently. A friend attended the second day of the auction after hearing of the low bids of the first day and succeeded at getting about 700 of the Duo-Art rolls.
The Ampico rolls were almost given away. I am now neglecting other responsibilities to listen to the 171 Duo-Art rolls that I got. There is some rare and wonderful stuff. I wish I had been there to at least see the other rolls and maybe mortgage my house to buy them. Some of them should be showing up on the auction lists soon.
The only problem with the rolls is that they were stored for a long time with rubber bands applied. The rubber turned to gum and stuck to the leaders. I am posting this as a warning to others to not repeat this mistake. It is a good idea to exclude air from the roll paper, but something other than cheap rubber bands must be used.
Does anyone have an idea as to what would be a long lasting and non-reactive elastic for this purpose? Would butyl rubber from bicycle inner tubes be safe? What about pure latex from the very expensive racing bicycle inner tubes?
Spencer Chase
[ I wrap a cuff of good bond paper around the music roll, to protect
[ it from the two rubber bands I slip on. -- Robbie
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