Occasionally the question comes up as to where to find music rolls.
There is a source page on the MMD web site:

  Links to Resources for Mechanical Music
  compiled by Karl Ellison
  http://mmd.foxtail.com/cgi-bin/links.pl

Mills Violano recuts have been made for several years by Dick Hack:

  Dick Hack <rhack1@verizon.net>

It should be noted that he has a limited number of rolls available
and when the paper supply runs out there will be no more recut Violano
rolls.  People just don't understand that our roll recutting hobby
needs paper and it is just not available.

I offer recuts of nickelodeon rolls also.  I do limited recuts of style
A, G, and O rolls.  I have a few Wurlitzer APP rolls left.  I too have
paper problems.  Currently there is only one company producing paper
for all the roll recutters.  All the recutters and QRS combined are
so tiny that the paper industry does not need them.  Ask anyone that
actually cuts rolls and they will tell you the paper horror stories.

The paper used for most rolls is not the same paper that is used for
the Mills rolls.  It was a special one-time run of paper.  The bottom
line is that if you think you may want a Mills Violano Roll then get
in touch with Dick Hack soon as the "word is on the street is that he
is running out of paper".  If you want A, G, or O rolls then remember
I only make so many copies of a roll and when it is sold out it is gone.

The only reason many of you have recut rolls is that at one time
someone was nice enough to loan an original old roll for recutting.
I have run out of old original rolls to recut and I am looking for
old rolls to borrow so others may enjoy the music which is why you
are seeing me "beg" so often for rolls to borrow.  I will buy them or
borrow them, what ever it takes to share the music.  So please search
high and low for good old original rolls I can copy.

And on another note, so to speak -- Horror Stories.  How about a
A-roll of Halloween music that children would recognize (hopefully)?
I have been toying with the idea of having a Halloween A roll made up.
Any interest?

Don Teach - Shreveport Music Co.
Shreveport, Louisiana