Greetings to all!  I am selling my collection of Welte-Mignon T-100
rolls.  It comprises some 330 titles, give or take a few.  To make
a very long story short, I assembled what I have over a period of about
forty years.  Contained within the assortment are many nice things:
Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.  Various of them came from Joseph
Tushinsky's collection, just after he passed away.

Unfortunately, I do not have the time, patience nor the inclination
to make up lists for the very choosy or particular, so, basically it's
a come and see them and buy them sort of thing that we have here.

Highlights?  Okay, a few for fun:

 - The great Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H by Liszt as played by Ernst
v. Dohnanyi (do not be confused; this is _not_ the same work as that
recorded by d'Albert, which was his own composition as well; it is the
Franz Liszt original for piano, later transcribed for organ as the
Prelude and Fugue).  Except for a green roll version that I saw once,
no other copies are known to me to exist in large-scale.  This is not
to say that such do not exist, but rather, that I just have yet to see
or hear of one.

 - The Grand Krakoviac of the youthful Chopin's, as done by Koczalski;
this would be yet another interesting title for those of a connoisseur
bent.

 - The Symphonic Etudes of Schumann as worked out nicely by Josef
Lhevinne in an American-recorded late teens version, might be another.
There are others of like interest, as well.

Want très rare?  Okay, how about

 - the German master roll of Josef Lhevinne playing the Schulz-Evler
Strauss Blue Danube variations?  Or how about

 - Dirk Schaefer playing Mozart's Variations on a Minuet by Duport,
_with_ the equivalent accompanying double-sided electric 78 (mint!)
on Dutch Columbia?  How about that?  Or,

 - the late American recorded version of the Eccosaises of
Beethoven-Chopin played by Lhevinne with it's accompanying Pathe
acoustic 78, also in mint condition?

It is way past time that they come to be in other, more appreciating,
hands.  Sadly, for me, the whole of 'musique mechanique', with it's
pantheon of colorful and greatly charming, amiable personalities,
has lost it's bloom utterly.

So, it's "first come - first served".

Cheers and best wishes to all Mignonese, Mignonites and readers of MMD!

Jim Miller
So. California
<akruzam@prodigy.net>