While cleaning and sorting through boxes of correspondence, I found
a letter from Kay Harmas written back in November of 1974.  This man
from Evanston, Illinois, was a collector who drove around the country
buying up stuff and visiting with other collectors.  I remember him
saying he had a Duo-Art(?) perforator stored away in a garage in
Chicago(?).

The last news I heard of him was back in the late 1970's or early
1980's.  That news was the frame of his station wagon broke in half
as he was exiting a gas station due to it being so overloaded.

I'm just curious if anyone on the board remembers him and would have
any news of him.  The memories brought back from a yellowed typewritten
letter...!

Jamie Brewer

 [ Scan of Kay's letter to me
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/18/03/29/180329_142558_k%20harmas%20letter.jpg 

 [ At http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200302/2003.02.08.03.html 
 [ Steinway Concert Duo-Art Rescued From Dump, by Randolph Herr
 [   "The story starts about 25 years ago when I went to an AMICA
 [ Convention in Buffalo, New York.  I met a man named Kay Harmas who
 [ had discovered a 9-1/2-foot Steinway Duo-Art in an old mansion."
 [
 [ At https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ys424ph4491/33-01.pdf 
 [ AMICA Bulletin January/February 1996, Vol. 33, No. 1, page 26
 [ (PDF page 28), in the article "Reprint of the Morse Perforator
 [ Study" By Jeffrey Morgan):
 [   "There was one master roll which survived, according to Larry
 [ Givens, and it happened to be the tune "Jealousy" on Ampico.  That
 [ roll is owned at this time by Kay Harmas of Evanston, Illinois.  ...
 [ Kay Harmas acquired the un-converted Duo-Art perforator from Givens
 [ in the early seventies and to my knowledge it remains unrestored."
 [
 [ -- Robbie