My appreciation to both Messrs. Caulfield and Reblitz for sharing their
valuable insights on music chosen by Seeburg & Wurlitzer for the rolls
each company produced.  But I am still curious about the material used
on rolls that was either commercially obscure or has yet to be found in
published sheet-music form.

I shared some files made from a few very rare Mandolin Pian-Orchestra
rag rolls that were missing their titles with noted ragtime performer
and historian Richard Zimmerman, and despite his encyclopedic knowledge
of ragtime, he was unable to identify the rags (not exactly top
sellers).  He also told me that quite a number of rags and early blues
are to be found _only_ on music rolls for coin pianos and orchestrions.
They never were issued by publishers as sheet music.

I have also arranged rags for Pian-Orchestra that were never issued as
rolls in any form, not even "common" 88-noters, but were still good,
popular rags in terms of sales.

Also, one may find tunes issued by just about every publisher such as
Shapiro & Bernstein; Leo Feist; Waterson, Snyder & Berlin; Harry Von
Tilzer; Siegel Cooper (Chicago); et al., on Wurlitzer rolls.  Some were
very popular, but some are so obscure today that they can't even be
found on period phonograph recordings.  This only confuses the
situation!

Any comments?

Stephen Kent Goodman