Hi All,  Occasionally I buy sets of rolls over the Internet,
but I seldom buy single rolls, as most of the time the seller
asks too much for it, and if it's an affordable price the shipping
is about three times as high as the price paid for the roll.

Last week I bought a single roll as it was in the same city as
where I'm working.  No sending whatsoever involved, I just had to
pick it up.  The seller also asked a reasonable price (5 euros),
probably too much for a roll, but I just like the arrangement.

I corresponded with the seller about the roll, as she knew little
about it.  I asked if it was an 88-note roll and she didn't know so
I told her what to look for in identifying the roll.  I thought that
the information that the box label said "full scale" and that the
flanges where the ones with slots in them and not metal pins told
enough to say it was an 88-note roll.

I went to pick up the roll and only at home discovered it was
a 65-note roll.  It was the same song and same composer so I assumed
it was the right box.  The flanges were of an 88-note roll, but hey,
the music roll was 65-notes.  Weird!  Somebody must have switched the
flanges for some unknown reason.

Well, I'm over the shock, and as I'm about to buy a 65-note push-up
player I'll keep the roll, but I need to make the right flanges for
it.  So here's my question: can anybody supply me with the right
dimensions of 65-note flanges, i.e., how thick are they, how far
are the metal pins sticking out, etc.?

I'll try and make some flanges that will fit in a 65-note player.
At least I have a pair of 88-note flanges now for a roll I have with
broken ones, so no bad trading after all.

Thanks in advance.
Niels Berkers
The Netherlands

P.S.: Playing an 65-note roll on an 88-note player provides very
modern music.  ;-)  It might be the trick in getting young people
interested in mechanical music.

 [ Spool flanges are commonly exchanged after the spool is dropped
 [ to the hard floor and a flange breaks (or, if of stamped metal,
 [ becomes horribly bent).  -- Robbie