Mine sort of cat danced to the music. I reported them immediately; sadly, they are both now convicted felines.

What version are you referencing, never heard that. Only ever heard "...flapper, yes sir--one of those!"

Yeah, U.S. Music sure liked to punch the roll number at the end of their rolls! Although usually unmusical, it sure let you know the roll was over! Then, on a foot-pedaled player, you could shift into rewind and rewind the roll. If played by an electric player, the extreme top and bottom holes at the end should have triggered the rewind automatically. If they didn’t (some problem), then hopefully the piano playing the roll number will trigger someone to come running in from the other room and hurriedly shift the piano into rewind before the roll is torn off the spool and all 88 notes play at once!

@@andrewbarrett1537 If all 88 notes can play lol.

I'm with you kerryincolumbus! This would have most definitely been something right out of an early Laurel and Hardy movie for sure!

Good music stuff today stinks

the paper is wrinkly so it triggered the holes

Did you find out yet?

Probably an error.

Yes! There are several suppliers of piano rolls. You can find all dozen - plus contemporary roll cutters listed in the back of the recent issues of the AMICA "Bulletin" (journal of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collector's Association), and some listed on the Mechanical Music Digest website. Most new rolls cut today at the time of writing (October, 2016) are "recuts" of old rolls of classical, salon, and vintage pop music (such as this). Unfortunately, there are currently very few rolls available of contemporary (let's say, 1980s-present) pop, rock, r&b, country and related music. I am hoping to eventually start a series of these with full copyright clearance / licensing and royalties paid. One major problem is that there aren't nearly enough talented contemporary musicians currently connected with the automatic musical instrument scene. If you know anyone who is interested in making (with a computer, or hand playing) some awesome piano solo arrangements of contemporary songs, please send me a message!

You can also find a whole bunch up on eBay. That’s where most can be found easily.

It's 100% pneumatic on the original pianos.....later on, they added electric motors. The pneumatic ones had to generate the air to push through the holes of the rolls by pumping two large pedals on the piano.

It works well, precisely, perfectly times, without failures. It can't be hacked or have a virus in it. Pure wonderful early 20th Century engineering

Nice early digital technology. Air is pumped through the holes in the sheet.

xD Midi's great granddaddy more like