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Malone's Music Co. of Turlock, California
By Ed Chaban

I have fond memories of Jeanne and her son, John Malone.  I was put in
touch with them by Doug Henderson; the Malones cut the titles for his
Artcraft label.  At the encouragement of Gary Sage, I approached John
who agreed to recut some Ampico and Duo-Art titles from his Play-Rite
masters as well as do some 1-1 copies of rolls Gary and I provided.
John had stopped making reproducing rolls for Play-Rite inventory some
years earlier.  QRS had also stopped recutting reproducing rolls.

I did this under the "Patriot Piano Roll Company" label.  I ran the
operation out of my garage.  My model was cut-to-order where I provided
a list of titles and asked customers to "vote" on which titles they
wanted.  If there was enough demand to justify making a production run,
we'd do it.  This was all pre-internet via snail mail.

Jeanne was well into her 80s but operated the perforators.  She would
cut 15 to 20 copies of each title.  There were a few titles where we
did two production runs, but not many.  All told I think we recut
perhaps 30 titles and shipped several hundred rolls.

I made several trips to the Malone "Castle" to pick up the rolls.
Jeanne and John were always a joy to work with.

Ed Chaban


(Message sent Wed 12 Aug 2020, 02:58:04 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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