For those who want to desperately get a copy of Atlas 3975, "Happy
Days Are Here Again", that is now being recut by Euterpe Rolls in
Leiden, Netherlands, please do let the company know that their
recuts of this roll have transposed the music a semitone sharp.

This isn't accurate to the original roll and also is, I think, too
sharp for the arrangement, since voicing would likely have to be
edited to keep it from sounding off (arrangements in C rarely sound
good transposed up OR down without changing certain phrases to keep
them from sounding too shrill or dead).

(Also, be prepared to deal with the sloppiness of the source material,
since my scan was not cleaned up correctly to be punched into a roll
which means even more inaccuracy compared to the original.)

I advise anyone who wants to recut any rolls, please don't use my
raw, unedited quantized scans that I've posted on YouTube. Let me
know you want to cut them and I will edit them accordingly to
actually match the original roll. I would hate to see companies
recutting rolls that sound and look sloppy. (There was a whole
bunch of Duo-Art recuts made in the 1970s or '80s that are terrible
because the masters weren't copied punch for punch.)

It's really not that difficult to just ask the 18-year-old kid who
made the scans to clean them up a bit more. Please, please don't put
sloppy recuts of rolls into circulation -- it only makes archiving
more difficult down the road.

It's awesome that there are companies like Euterpe Rolls who care
enough to actually recut these old and rare rolls but there is no
point for them to waste their time making bad material! Seek quality
over quantity, even if that means more work!

Piotr Barcz

 { See also "Master Rolls Reconstructed for Recuts" by Piotr Barcz
 { https://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/202312/2023.12.14.01.html 
 [ and YouTube performances at
 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mh-Wj8TK6w 
 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_I7rEx7UY 
 [ https://youtu.be/ORgnfj5C1Ac?list=RDORgnfj5C1Ac 
 [ -- Robbie