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Extra-Long-Playing Jumbo Duo-Art Rolls
By Bruce Grimes

Most everyone knows about Ray Siou's LPs [long play piano rolls].
Great contribution, especially if you have a long-play Duo-Art piano
(they first hit the market in 1928).  Frank Adams did a series of eight
LPs in special big brown boxes which, like Ray's wonders, fit on most
Duo-Art pianos.

As I have three long-play Duo-Art pianos, now and then I get e-mails
from long-play piano owners wanting to know about good rolls to put
together -- ones that would fill a Jumbo spool to brimming.

Here's one -- it's all marches.  If you can't dust your house to this
baby, another year in finishing school might help.  I just put it on
and baked a dozen cookies!  The first part is Ray's work, then I added
some more, all recuts.

1  The American Patrol
2. The Dauntless Battalion
3. The National Emblem
8. Up the Street
5. Under the Double Eagle
6. With Flags Aloft
7. On the Mall
8. March of the Mannikins

One of the marches even has a little of "Dixie" in it, for those who
may still be licking their wounds from the "Wowah of Nothern Aggression",
as one of my Alabama relatives still refer to it.

For a while I even had the Boston Commandery March (Onward Christian
Soldier) as #9, but removed it as I am not of that religion and it
seemed out of place, but there is the space if it's for you.

Gay & Proud, Tockhwock
Bruce Grimes

 [ At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onward,_Christian_Soldiers :
 [   "Onward, Christian Soldiers" is a 19th century English hymn.  The
 [ words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865, and the music was
 [ composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. ... An attempt was made in 1986
 [ to strip "Onward, Christian Soldiers" from the United Methodist Hymnal
 [ due to perceived militarism.  Outrage among church goers caused the
 [ committee to back down.  However, the hymn was not included in the
 [ 1990 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (USA)."
 [
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Sat 5 Dec 2009, 21:05:46 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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