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 From: mestanyo@bnc.es (Margarida Estanyol / Barcelona)
 To:  rolls@foxtail.com
 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:15:40 +0000

 Subject: player piano rolls query

Dear Mechanical Music Digest people,  A colleague from MLA-list gave us
your email address to forward you a question.

We have a small collection of player piano rolls in our Sound Archive
which we cannot date.  Most of them can be dated because they were
manufactured at VICTORIA in La Garriga (close to Barcelona in Catalonia,
Spain), but there is also a representative number of THEMODIST,
KASTONOME, AEOLIAN, ANIMATIC, IMPERIAL LINENIZED (?), ARMONIC, FABRICA
ITALIANA RULLI SONORI and RYTHMODIC RECORD MUSIC ROLLS makes.

Could anyone inform us about where to find catalogs of such manufac-
turers?  There seems to be nothing of the sort around here.  Attached
we send the complete list.  If you could do anything to help, we'd be
very grateful.  Thanks.

Margarida Estanyol
Fonoteca de la Biblioteca de Catalunya Gran Via de les Corts
Catalanes, 657 bis 08010 BARCELONA (SPAIN)
Tel. (3) 265 67 70     Fax (3) 265 66 35
mestanyo@bnc.es

 [ Editor's note:
 [
 [ As a sample, here are the 'FIRST' rolls in the list:
 [
 [ Meyerbeer, Giacomo
 [    L'Africana, atto 1. Fabrica Italiana Rulli Sonori 2917. PIM 10
 [
 [ Puccini, Giacomo
 [    La bohème, quadro III. Fabrica Italiana Rulli Sonori 2328. PIG 41
 [
 [ Verdi, Giuseppe
 [    Ernani, atto III. Fabrica Italiana Rulli Sonori 2766. PIM 12
 [
 [ The complete list is about 13.5 kbytes, originally in Microsoft Write
 [ format.  I have converted it for Mime transmission, since there are
 [ lots of foreign characters.  If you wish a copy of this file send me a
 [ note at <rollreq@foxtail.com>.
 [
 [ Robbie