I restore players for Antique Piano Shop in East Tennessee.  Last year,
they sold a beautiful Mission style Autopiano (pre-restored) without
checking the tracker bar.  It turned out to be a 65-note player.  There
was no option to debate.  It was sold as an 88-note player and an 88-
note player it had to be.  65 note players usually don't have tracking
units, and you really need one for 88-note rolls.

This had a very nice birds-eye maple frame.  We were very lucky to find
another Autopiano in the warehouse that had the same style spool box
with 88-note tracker bar and tracking unit. I ended up making an exact
copy of the original stack in cherry wood, adding additional valve
plates, primaries, and lifters from an extra 65-note Autopiano stack I
had in storage. (See, guys, never throw anything away!)  I had to
shorten the range to eighty notes, so that the stack could fit in
available space and I could use the original mountings.  I am pleased
to say it worked great.  There is a video of it posted on Facebook:

	https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202105970154187&set=o.21475025830&type=2&theater 

Because of the short period of time 65-note rolls were made, ca. 1890-
1919, the range of music is limited.  There are great ragtime and well-
orchestrated classical pieces, but the majority of the rolls you find
will be tedious light classical and parlor pieces which prove that no
era had a monopoly on bad music.  In Great Britain they made 65-note
rolls until the early thirties; so it is possible to find some later
music there.

It depends on the musical taste of the client and how much he is
willing to spend.  Using the 65-note stack is acceptable, if the end
octaves are coupled, so that the notes out of range will register.  The
missing notes will hardly be missed on most pop music rolls.  If the
interest is in classical and later music, those absent notes will be as
obvious as a bull in the parlor.

Making up a player stack from scratch is more than twice as much work
as restoring an existing one.  So the client has to decide if having
the twenty or so extra notes is worth it.

Brian Thornton
Short Mountain Music
Pipes of Pan Music Rolls