Here is a list of the published rollographies I am aware of, including
one, by the late Charles Davis Smith, for the Duo-Art.
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Author: Obenchain, Elaine.
Title: The complete catalog of Ampico Reproducing
Piano rolls / Elaine Obenchain.
Published: New York : American Piano Co., c1977.
Description: ix, 197 p. ; 29 cm.
LC Call No.: ML158 .A466
Dewey No.: 016.7899/12
ISBN: 0960117210 : $20.00
Subjects: Player-piano rolls -- Catalogs.
Ampico reproducing piano.
Other authors: Ampico Reproducing Piano, East Rochester, N.Y.
Card No.: 77-022349
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Author: Billings, Ginny.
Title: The Billings rollography : player piano music
from 1917 to 1934 / Ginny and Bob Billings.
Published: Belmont, CA (1518 Sunnyslope Ave., Belmont
94002) : Rock Soup, c1990-c1995.
Description: 5 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
LC Call No.: ML158 .B5 1990
Dewey No.: 016.7866/6 20
Notes: Includes indexes.
Contents: v. 1. QRS Word Rolls, 99-6000 -- v. 2. Recordo
and its kin -- v. 3. Pianists -- v. 4. QRS
Word Rolls, #6000-#11000, Q series, Celeb-
rity series, XP series, 1934-1994 -- v. 5.
QRS history, pianists & memorabilia, 1934-
1994.
Subjects: Player-piano rolls -- Catalogs.
Pianists -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
QRS Music Rolls, Inc.
Other authors: Billings, Bob.
Card No.: 91-142118
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Author: Smith, Charles Davis.
Title: Duo-Art piano music : a complete classified
catalog of music recorded for the Duo-Art
reproducing piano / compiled and annotated
by Charles Davis Smith.
Published: Monrovia, Calif. (625 S. Myrtle Ave., Monrovia
91016) : Player Shop, c1987.
Description: 325 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
LC Call No.: ML158 .A4 1987
Dewey No.: 016.789/72 19
Notes: "The Aeolian Company, Aeolian Hall, New York,
London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Melbourne,
Sidney."
Bibliography: p. 322-335.
Subjects: Player-piano rolls -- Catalogs.
Duo-Art reproducing piano.
Other authors: Aeolian Company.
Card No.: 88-164668
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Author: Smith, Charles Davis.
Title: The Welte-Mignon : its music and musicians / by
Charles Davis Smith and Richard James Howe.
Published: Vestal, N.Y. : Published by Vestal Press for
the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors'
Association, 1994.
Description: p. cm.
LC Call No.: ML158 .S65 1994
Dewey No.: 016.7866/6/0266 20
ISBN: 1879511177
Notes: "Complete catalogue of Welte-Mignon reproducing
piano recordings, 1905-1932; historical
overview of companies and individuals;
biographical essays on the recording artists
and composers."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Player-piano rolls -- Catalogs.
Welte-Mignon Corporation -- Catalogs.
Welte-Mignon Corporation -- History.
Other authors: Howe, Richard J.
Card No.: 94-012027
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Author: International Piano Archives at Maryland.
Title: Catalog of the reproducing piano roll
collection, International Piano Archives at
Maryland / prepared by the International
Piano Archives at Maryland.
Published: College Park, Md. : University of Maryland,
1983.
Description: xii, 281 p. ; 27 cm.
Series: Publications of the Music Library, University
of Maryland at College Park ; no. 2
LC Call No.: ML158 .I58 1983
Dewey No.: 789/.72/07415241 19
ISBN: 0918512042 : $25.00
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subjects: Player-piano rolls -- Catalogs.
Card No.: 83-012336
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Title: The Classical reproducing piano roll : a
catalogue-index / compiled by Larry Sitsky.
Published: New York : Greenwood Press, 1990.
Description: 2 v. ; 25 cm.
LC Call No.: ML158 .C6 1990
Dewey No.: 016.7862/026 20
ISBN: 0313254966 (set)
031327312X (v. 1 : alk. paper)
0313273138 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (v. 2).
Contents: Vol. 1. Composers -- v. 2. Pianists.
Subjects: Player-piano rolls -- Catalogs.
Player piano.
Other authors: Sitsky, Larry.
Card No.: 89-028651
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Author: Montgomery, Mike.
Title: Columbia, Capitol, Supertone, and Challenge
word roll catalog / compiled by Mike
Montgomery.
Published: [S.l. : s.n., 1984?]
Description: 1 v. (loose-leaf) : ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
LC Call No.: ML158 .M65 1984
Dewey No.: 016.78/026/6 20
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Player-piano rolls -- Catalogs.
Card No.: 89-100429
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If anyone knows of others, please add to the list.
Matthew Caulfield
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