While shopping at an antique shop in Cheboygan, Michigan, I found
a big pile of Melographic rolls, which are on a greenish paper and
are described as 85-note rolls on the box.  They have expression
coding too, it seems.

Does anybody know anything about these?  They're all from the late
1900s to early 1910s; made in Buffalo, New York.  I also found 14
beautiful Welte-Mignon piano rolls there, too.  Check for those on
eBay this week under the seller name ampico66.

Damon Atchison
http://www.msu.edu/~atchiso5/

 [ In 030531 MMDigest, Michael Pollard wrote about Melographic
 [ 88-note rolls:
 [
 [> The large, light-colored, square labels have in bold face type
 [> the numerals "88" in the upper left-hand corner (rather than
 [> "Eighty-Eight Note" spelled out) with "Melographic" in a gothic
 [> type-face across the top.
 [>
 [> According to MMD's page on the Aeolian Company, they should not be
 [> Aeolian/Universal products and could be made by the United States
 [> Music Roll Co. of Chicago.  However, when I compare these rolls to
 [> US Music rolls that I have, I do not see any similarities, and this
 [> company identifies itself both on the box and roll label as being
 [> in Buffalo, New York, USA.
 [
 [ I seek more information about Melographic, and also the United
 [ States Music Co. (Thos. Cusack Co.?) of Chicago and New York,
 [ for the MMMedia site, http://mmd.foxtail.com/MMMedia/brands.html
 [ -- Robbie