Bill Masterman wrote in 030202 MMDigest:

> As many of you may know, there were some very nice rolls that
> Tom Meijer arranged back in the 1980s.  Harvey and Marion Roehl
> contracted Tom Meijer to make them a special set of four 10 tune
> rolls, entitled "Good Old USA Carousel Music". ... This is where my
> idea of a recutting project came to mind.  I contacted Marion Roehl
> a bit over a year ago about this.  She has given her blessing that
> they can be recut and made available to the masses.

I have been an admirer of Tom Meijer's music for quite some time and
have a number of his arrangements on my fair organ so this would be
a worthwhile project.

However, have you contacted Tom about royalties to him?  He is the
arranger and he is trying to make a living and raise a family on his
income from this.  He is entitled to a royalty if his music is going
to be propagated and sold.

Some years ago, I converted some music books to play on my organ
that he had arranged to play on another organ.  Before doing this,
I contacted him and arranged to pay him a "royalty" for permission to
make one copy for myself.  His price was very reasonable.

It is one thing to copy old music from Gavioli, Bruder, etc., but quite
another to copy the music of living arranger and then to widely
disperse it.  Just my opinion.

Bob Conant
Endicott, NY