Dear friends! I'm urgently looking for a Metrostyle 'Tempo line'
piano roll, catalog number 7111, with the Toccata by Sgambati.
The Metrostyle [performance] is supposed to have been drawn in
collaboration with Sgambati himself. It's a 65-note roll. Is there
anyone here who might have it in their collection?

I'm currently finishing an article on some rolls with music of
Sgambati and would be thankful if this roll turns up somewhere!

Thank you so much!

Laura Granero
http://lauragranero.com/ 
lauragranerofortepiano@gmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep"
to reply]

[ "Laura Granero is a Spanish fortepianist/pianist/harpsichordist
[ and researcher. She aims to bring her research to her playing,
[ seeking a more personal and freer way of expressing herself as
[ an artist inspired by the first recorded pianists.
[
[ "She is pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Music and
[ Performing Arts, Vienna, under the direction of Dr Clive Brown.
[ The topic of her dissertation is the study of the recordings and
[ piano rolls of Fanny Davies and other students of the Clara
[ Schumann tradition." Ref.
[ https://www.hkb-interpretation.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Veranstaltungen/2311_Embodiment.pdf 

[ The Welte-Mignon reproducing piano performance by Fanny Davies is
[ presented at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-AogNC7yyQ 
[
[ A detailed treatise on the development of the fortepiano,
[ beginning with Bartolomeo Cristofori's instruments of circa 1700,
[ is presented at https://www.squarepianos.com/fortepiano.html 
[
[ Adam Ramet and Julian Dyer discuss "Tempo Marking of Metrostyle Rolls"
[ at https://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200508/2005.08.18.07.html 
[ and https://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200508/2005.08.19.02.html 
[ -- Robbie