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Recutting Wurlitzer APP Rolls
By Don Teach

Once in a while I receive a request for information or for copies of
Wurlitzer APP rolls.  About twelve years ago I did a recutting project
of Wurlitzer 5-tune APP rolls.  Sorry to say but I have no more rolls
left from this project for sale.  We sold the rolls in lots of 100
rolls only.

These were copies of what we felt were good rolls to copy as well as
five rolls arranged just for the project by Art Reblitz.  Those five
rolls have sold for as much as $250 per roll.  There is one set of
the five rolls left for sale for $1000 by someone other than myself,
if anyone is interested.  I never made any profit on the roll recutting
project.

This past weekend I was informed that we have somewhere in the
neighborhood of 200 10-tune APP rolls to sell.  This lot needs to be
sold to one buyer at one time.  I am thinking of price $50 per roll but
it is not my decision and I am only the messenger.  You can contact me
if you think you would like to buy the collection.

Call me crazy, but as long as I am thinking about Wurlitzer APP rolls
I wonder how many people would like a collection of 100 APP 5-tune
changer rolls complete with the five rolls arranged by Art Reblitz.
The owner of the 10-tune rolls says I can borrow them if I want to have
100 5-tune changer rolls made.  That would give me two thousand or so
songs to choose from for the 5-tune changer rolls.

Some would say they are not original but as the owner of many original
APP rolls I can tell you that there are a ton of songs no one has ever
heard since they were published.  I would like to offer 100 APP 5-tune
changer rolls with well known songs on each roll.  If _anyone_ is
interested in a serious manner then please contact me.  This will be
another not-for-profit venture.  I suspect the cost to be somewhere
around $5,000 for the set.

Don Teach - Shreveport Music Co.
Shreveport, Louisiana


(Message sent Mon 17 Feb 2014, 21:22:13 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

Key Words in Subject:  APP, Recutting, Rolls, Wurlitzer

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