Hi all,  Some of the old player piano companies did paste labels on
the rolls and some of them play just fine, but in later years some
newer companies do paste labels on rolls and either the paper of the
label is too thick or the type of glue used can cause the problems that
Joyce mentions.  It is highly annoying to put a roll on an electric
piano and push the on switch and have the roll rewind when the pucker
in the paper where the label is causes the paper to lift.

QRS still today, and many companies in the old days, did not glue
labels on the rolls -- they simply printed the leaders with a label
and/or other information.  On the rolls that I recut I have always
printed on the labels and all the information on the leaders.  I like
it and there is no problem.  I use an old dot matrix printer with my
computer that has a wide enough carriage to insert a piano roll and
print whatever I want on the leader.  Works great!

Joyce, if you don't have a dot matrix printer, send me a scan of the
label and I will print the label on some leader paper and in your next
batch of rolls I ship to you I will send you a new leader with the
label printed on and you can cut off that old label and tape the new
leader on the roll and you will not have any more problems.  So, you
really don't need to have a pasted label on the roll at all.

Musically
Larry Norman, from the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  I think
winter may be on its way, but it is still beautiful.