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FS: 87-key B.A.B. Band Organ Rolls
By Roger Morrison

I have seven 10-tune 87-key B.A.B. band organ rolls, made by Tom
Wurdeman back in the 1980's, for sale as a lot for $400.00  Buyer to
pay shipping.

The series of rolls that were released at that time had a lot of
mistakes, and it was no fault of Tom.  The original masters had been
corrected with tape, and when Tom set up the machine to punch the
rolls, all the tape fell off.  When I ran North Coast Music Roll Works,
I bought a set of Tom's rolls to use to make some rolls of another
scale, with Tom's permission.  I spent from 3-1/2 hours to 4 hours per
roll correcting mistakes.  I have a roll player wired to the pipe organ
that I can run very slowly, and back up, and listen to rolls to check
for mistakes and make corrections.  That is what I did to these rolls
back around 1985.  They have probably been played four times total if
that.

The rolls are in excellent shape and in boxes.  The only thing
different from when I purchased them is that I have corrected the
mistakes in Tom Wurdeman's cutting and have added some sharpie pen
notes about tempo, etc.  Interested parties can email me for more
information and a complete tune list of the rolls.

Roger Morrison


(Message sent Sun 3 Oct 2010, 14:19:31 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  87-key, B.A.B, Band, FS, Organ, Rolls

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