We should certainly stop any suggestion that there's only one complete
set of these rolls!

In the UK, at least, there are several known sets, and I would expect a
goodly number more in circulation.  Harrods' department store had a
roll library and was heavily involved with Aeolian's roll-cutting
factory, particularly after Aeolian sold their UK operation.  The roll
library was a major source of Duo-Art rolls (it was a sort of
try-and-buy operation) and the library stampings on labels and inside
box lids are fairly common.  Unsaleable rolls such as the Stravinsky
simply stayed put on the shelves until someone took a fancy to them -
which could have been right up the the early 1960s.  They may well have
been dreadfully slow sellers, but they probably seeped into circulation
over the years.

I have a complete set of the UK Pianola (i.e. 88-note only) issue,
which is actually titled "Stravinsky's 'My life and Music', First
Series, To 'The Fire-Bird'".  All Audiographic rolls came out in both
Pianola and Duo-Art versions (in the UK, at least).  The obvious
difference is that the Pianola edition carries dynamic markings that
would not be on the Duo-Art (I've not compared any to see how else they
differ).  If a recutting project wanted to be really thorough it could
offer both types!

The contents is best described by the original blurb at the start:
"These six rolls embody an Autobiographical Sketch of the Composer's
Life to the year 1910, with a Literary and Musical Analysis of The
Fire Bird, and a complete Performance of it, recorded by the Composer
himself.  Translated by Edwin Evans.  With Pictorial Decorations by
V. Polunin, Artist to the Russian Ballet."

I think these rolls have their origin in Stravinsky's work for Pleyel
in Paris.  He made many more player-piano arrangements of his work for
Pleyel (47 rolls "Adapted and recorded by the composer" in their
July 1926 catalogue, including sets of "Le Chant du Rossignol",
"Les Noces", "Le Sacre du Printemps", "Petrouchka" and "Pulcinella").
For 'recorded' we ought to read 'arranged' because there's little
suggestion of fingers on a keyboard at any point!  I think many are
known in collections in either Pleyel or Spanish "Victoria" issues.
These rolls could also be recut.  Now, that really would be quite a
project.

Julian Dyer