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1960s Aeolian Artist Clyde Ridge
By Pat DeWitt

Hi All,  We all know that one of the drawbacks of piano rolls and
player pianos is that current ( or relatively recent) music is hard
to find.  Also, in my opinion the recent 88-note musical arrangements
that QRS puts out (or did put out) leave something to be desired,
in that the sound is rather simplistic.

However, in a recent box of garage sale rolls (which also included 44
Ampico rolls) I found three 88-note Aeolian rolls, probably from the
1950's played by an artist named Clyde Ridge.  The rolls are

  1066 Indiana
  1499 Someone to Watch Over Me
  1172 Love is a Many Splendored Thing

The arrangements are terrific!  Does anyone know any thing about
Mr. Ridge, and are there more Aeolian rolls like this out there?

Pat DeWitt


(Message sent Thu 14 May 2009, 16:24:22 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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