Vincent Morgan asked why the difference in Tempo between an original
and a recut of the same roll (the original stamped at Tempo 95, the
recut stamped at Tempo 70).  As much as Keystone tried always to be
true to their sources, they still copied from the originals.  I would
say human error is the cause for this.

More interesting than that, I have a copy of the "Moonlight Sonata"
played by Paderewski.  When I played it there was a note that sounded
wrong (just one).  It isn't in the score and it didn't make sense
to me that he would have improvised there.  I discovered that I have
an original roll of the same movement and I played the original; the
extraneous note wasn't present, which basically means that it was an
error in the perforation.

My question is this: which sounds better when you play it, the tempo of
95 or the tempo of 70?  75 years ago we could have called Arthur Loesser
and asked him how fast he played it.  Unfortunately he passed away in
1969.

Eli Shahar