An interest in mechanical music _can_ be cultivated in the next
generations if you make it accessible to them.

Our local museums experience with the Farrand 88-note I restored for
them has been nothing short of heartwarming -- many elementary school
classes tour the institution every year, and they are invariably blown
away by the amazing piano that plays itself.  The museum keeps a
selection of current rolls available so that the kids can hear familiar
tunes -- Lion King, Little Mermaid, Aladdin -- as well as many of the
old rolls.

Who knows how many seeds of interest have been planted by this
exposure?  Even a group of children on an exchange program from France
who saw it were amazed and wanted to know if they had such things at
home.  (Philippe, are you reading?)  I have since had several more
requests for players from people who fell in love with the instrument
at the museum.

Do a little public service and put a lovingly restored instrument in
the hands of an institution that will care for it and show it off, and
the mechanical music passion may yet last until the 22nd century.

Dan Harrett