MMDers!  Yesterday, I did an estimate on a very fine Peerless coin
piano.  It is an Arts & Crafts style case with fantastic leaded glass,
and is all complete and original with the exception of being re-tubed
at some point.  The collector does piano restoration and I will be
doing the player work.

My dilemma is that there are _no_ player rolls with this machine.
It has a 10-tune "long roll" frame; I am quite sure the roll was 12"
wide.  The tracker bar has 71 trapezoidal holes (like Simplex) spaced
at 6 holes per inch.

I have looked in Art Reblitz's book, "Treasures of Automated Music,"
which has all the known scales and it isn't there.  It is closest
to the Peerless style "D" roll which is endless and does not have a
provision to turn on the mandolin rail.  I can figure out the scale
when it comes to the shop next week.

What the owner and I are trying to decide upon is this: Do we keep it
original?  It is very rare to find a Peerless instrument all intact
like this one.

Since I doubt there are any original rolls out there for this piano
that would be available for scanning and copying, I can make new rolls
quite easily from my library of 65- and 58-note music (I have lots of
ragtime and other period stuff).  The other option is to convert to
play standard style "A" rolls, which I think would be *blah.*

So, does anyone have any information or feedback about this roll
format?  Art, are you reading this?

Organically,

Brian Thornton - Pipes of Pan Music Rolls/Short Mtn Music Works
Woodbury, Tennessee

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