Hello, MMD.  This query, for once, is not about the never-ending
saga of my struggle with my foot-pumped Steck Duo-Art upright, but
about a Duo-Art roll.

About a year ago I bought Duo-Art roll No. 713133, "Collegiate", by
Moe Jaffe and Nat Bonx (were they for real?), and played by Frank Banta.
The vendor warned me that he had discovered that the roll was damaged
and offered to exclude it from the sale.  I replied that I did a lot of
roll mending and that I would take the risk.

When it arrived I discovered that the roll seemed to have had a close
encounter with a rampant Metrostyle pointer.  Most of the roll was in
good condition, but towards the end a rip appeared near the bass side
and, over a distance along the roll of several feet, made its way
across to the treble side.  Quite a few chunks of the roll had
separated completely and were lying in the bottom of the roll box.

During the past few days, and by using Filmoplast-R, the iron-on
archival repair tape made by Neschen, I have managed almost to put the
roll back together but there is a chunk missing from the treble edge.
Measuring backwards from the end of the final chord, the missing chunk
lies between 41.5" and 49" from that final chord.  The chunk extends
inwards from the treble edge a maximum of 2".  Of course the chunk
doesn't extend anywhere, because it's not there, but that's maybe
splitting hairs.

If anybody possesses a copy of this roll and is willing to scan the
appropriate section, and email me the scan, I would be grateful and
delighted.  If necessary I can scan the section of my roll, where the
gap is, and send it to any person willing to help, so as to pin down
the problematic part.

I pedalled the roll through this morning and it performed well except
for some curious expression when the chunk went across the tracker bar.
It's an okay roll but not a world-beater.  That may explain why Jaffe
and Bonx are no longer on everybody's lips.

John Phillips - in Hobart, Tasmania

 [ See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Jaffe  -- Robbie