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Orchestrion Rolls Derived From QRS Rolls
By Stephen Kent Goodman

I have a copy of QRS roll 1324, "My Mammy" (Young/Lewis/Donaldson),
Irving Berlin 1920.  This roll is a different arrangement than the
one found on an Automatic "G" roll issued in 1920 (the number and
label are gone).  On this particular tune, there is _no way_ that
a QRS master was used for the "G" roll performance.

I wonder how many other pieces this is also true of, and if the use
of QRS masters for orchestrion rolls has been widely overstated and
inflated?

Stephen Kent Goodman


(Message sent Mon 21 Jan 2002, 16:30:12 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Derived, Orchestrion, QRS, Rolls

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