I have a Duo Art roll in a substitute box with the leader cut off.
The song is a waltz and played in the key of E.  From the style, I'd
say this rolls serial number belonged somewhere in Aeolian's scheme of
popular music roll numbers.  The lyrics on the roll indicates that the
title may be something like "On The Golden Sands Of Old Miami Shore."

I can't find such a title (or logical variant thereof) in Charles
Davis Smith's "Catalog of Duo-Art Piano Rolls."  There's the number,
3863, printed on the roll just before the reroll perf, but I don't
know if that has any meaning towards identifying the roll.

Smith's catalog does show a song, "On Miami Shore," roll number
1671, that's a waltz, but it says that it was played in G, and the
arrangement of the roll I have doesn't really sound like rolls as
early as that serial number.  Can anybody help me identify this roll?

Regards,
Dick Merchant

Carlsbad, NM

 [ A search for "On Miami Shore" at the Lester S. Levy site,
 [ http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/advancedsearch.html  yields
 [
 [   Title: On Miami Shore.
 [   Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by William LeBaron.
 [     Music by Victor Jacobi.
 [   Publication: New York: Chappell & Co., Ltd., ... 1919.
 [   First Line of Chorus: On the golden sands of old Miami shore
 [
 [ In this sheet music (yes, it's a waltz) the verse is in F major
 [ and the chorus is in D major (which seems to me rather contrived).
 [ The chorus melody rises to F-sharp above Middle C, which is okay
 [ for a lyric tenor but a bit high for "popular edition" sheet music.
 [
 [ -- Robbie