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My First Picturoll Experience
By Brian Thornton

When I still in high school   I had installed a player piano in my bedroom
against my parents wishes. They did however let me keep it there....After
all I wanted one in the worst way and, heck isn't it much better than a
cheap stereo basting Rock & Roll?

A few months later I found a half dozen PictureRolls in an antique store. My
favorite of the batch was a piece called "Turbulence"  It was full of rolled
cords at a frantic pace.  It was perfect- "Tie Nell to the tracks as the
evil villain sneers", music.

I played it alot and one night my father came in and in a not-so-pleasant
way, asked me to not play the piece any more when he was around.   My mother
said it drove her up the wall, and  wondered why I didn't listen to pop
music like normal kids.

Parents ...You just can't make em happy!

Psssst .......I still have the roll B.T.W.

Brian


(Message sent Wed 14 May 1997, 05:38:02 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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