Hard on the heels of my piece about Harold Bauer [190117 MMD] and the
searched-for and found de Sarasate quotes, a perceptive MMD reader
wrote by e-mail regarding my failure to include just whereat those
were to be found within "His Book."
For any interested, the following is how I responded to this person's
timely, apt reminder:
Greetings! Thank you for writing, (. . .). Yes, of course, as-per
your request: the Duo-Art related material begins at page 175, and
de Sarasate's at page 138.
Also, if you might have access to a copy, a revealing discussion
by Bauer in the form of an Aeolian Duo-Art ad from 1916, as to how
he edited and improved his record-rolls -- "I am like the sculptor
[before his clay]" -- may be found in a splendid paperback
compilation put out some years ago, entitled "Through You I Live
Forever / A Nostalgic Look At Reproducing Player Piano Advertising
From 1906 To 1929", by Tom Beckett and Mark D. Zahm, 1977. Copies
are scarce but well-worth going to any trouble to find. Perhaps
I should scan those two pages and put them up on The MMD?
Please, do keep reading and commenting?
Again, thank you &, etc.
While reading through the on-line version, it struck me as to how
similar Bauer's book was to that of Arthur Rubinstein's two, all three
being as they were chock-full of bits of this and that opinionation,
revelation, and at times and places, spicy musical-and-otherwise
reportage.
Jim Miller
Las Vegas, Nevada
[ I bet the books had the same publisher and "ghost writer" who
[ understood that the intended audience was much more interested
[ in the "juicy tidbits" than in how piano rolls were created! ;-)
[ Bauer's "His Book" is available at
[ https://archive.org/details/haroldbauerhisbo011301mbp/page/n5
[ -- Robbie
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