My condolences to the family and friends of Doyle lane.  He will surely
be missed.  Even as recently as last fall 2009 I was able to order some
parts I needed for a Wurlitzer roll frame I am restoring.  He was there
to answer questions about the history of my own passion.  I owe a great
debt to Doyle who, along with Mike Kitner, Steve Lanick, Ken Smith, and
Marc Elbasani were all able to supply information, materials and
support for my own work.

Doyle's efforts in preserving surviving Wurlitzer roll masters and
catalog have made it so that the music will never be forgotten.  More
important was the preservation of the Wurlitzer pipe scales.  I wore
out my first copy of this little booklet making the pipes for my own
Caliola.

Doyle succeeded in reaching beyond the small Midwest world of band
organ collectors.  Through the Vestal Press he produced enough copies
of these works that there are several instances where I have seen these
items offered for sale on eBay.

Those lucky enough to attend the AMICA convention in Buffalo, New York,
will have the opportunity to visit the Hershel Carousel Museum and see
first-hand the perforators along with the roll masters Doyle saved
through the Player Piano Center.  I spent several weeks last August
with the assistance of Matt Caulfield, and Doug Hershberger and others,
scanning to computer files this catalog along with the catalogs of Ray
Siou and Ed Sprankle, to create an Excel spreadsheet and HTML file of
10,000 known Wurlitzer APP roll titles.

Matt then sent on all the papers I scanned to Terry Smythe for inclusion
in the master archive that he is working on.  This is a thankless
effort because as soon as I had all this information entered I was
given an additional collection of APP roll labels which now need to be
added to the APP database.  I mention this only after spending some
full, uninterrupted weeks last August entering data, so can I appreciate
the task it took to make these catalogs available to the world.

Help is still needed to proofread this 4.8 megabyte electronic database,
which is not quite ready for publication.  Without Doyle I never would
have started on this Sisyphean task, where the more one learns, the
more there is to learn!

Doyle, you will be missed.

Julie Porter