To generate renewed interest in mechanical coin-op music machines.  That
is precisely why I am writing LET THE OTHER GUY PLAY IT!  A pictorial
history of coin-op music in America, with three chapters on pianos and
one on orchestrions.  With wads of location photos and original
literature in color.

Music was the first coin-op collectible, and predates slot machines and
jukebox collecting by at least a decade.  We just need to revitalize
interest with books and articles.  As the editor of Coin Drop
International ($15 per year, tel. 303/431-9266) I have seen to it that
there has been a coin-op piano article of some length in just about every
issue over the past two years.  From collecting to finding to restoring,
and the readership has been high.  I also review the latest mechanical
music CDs, and have a heavy music interest in the editorial.  Get back
issues if you are interested.

LET THE OTHER GUY PLAY IT! will have the real and original history of the
ENCORE banjo (made by a coin-op manufacturer that also made arcade
machines) , as well as many other music machines, including the many
MULTIPHONES and the PEERLESS piano, invented in Los Angeles three years
before most histories have it dated.

It will be a rousing , rattling good yarn kind of book about coin-op
music, right up through amplification and the many piano company
(Seeburg, Mills, Rock-Ola, Wurlitzer, Aeolian, AMI and many others)
conversions to the jukebox.  Publisher is Royal Bell Books, the publisher
of my previous history of slot machines called LEMONS, CHERRIES AND
BELL-FRUIT-GUM, also a killer book all in color.  Book is expected next
spring.

Dick Bueschel

 [ Advert well done, Dick; it's entertaining and snappy!  -- Robbie