I'm working on a music roll for the Reproduco piano-pipe organ and
I'd like to hear what one sounds like!  The music cassette entitled
"Speakeasy and Silent Movie Pianos, Vol. I.",  contains six pop tunes
played on the instrument restored by Harvey and Marion Roehl; it's
available from http://www.clownantics.com/music.shtml for $11.

But Terry Hathaway told me that, circa 1968, Hathaway & Bowers, Inc.,
engaged Concert Recording Company of Lynwood, Calif., to produce an LP
record of the Roehl's Reproduco.  The LPs were briefly sold by Hathaway
& Bowers and probably also by Marion Roehl.  The master recordings were
made by Wally Marks.

Please write to me if you own the rare Concert Recording LP and if you
can share with me good quality recordings of the Reproduco piano-pipe
organ or the similar "mortuary organs" also made by Seeburg and
Wurlitzer.  I hope to hear examples in the music of the swell shutters
and piano muting.  These control functions aren't very evident in the
six tunes on the music cassette.  The arrangements seem to be hasty
derivations from Capitol 'A' rolls of 1926 pop tunes -- they sound
like an A-roll piano with a tremulant modulating the flute pipes.

Thanks
Robbie Rhodes
Etiwanda, California