Hi David,

Yale HSR does NOT collect piano rolls, though we have accumulated a number
of them, which came with collections of sound recordings. We cannot play
the ones we have (and in fact have transferred most of them to the Musical
Instrument Collection, which has an unrestored Welte machine). They have
not been catalogued, and I can only think of one or two questions about
them in the past 20 years or so.

Best, Richard

At 01:49 PM 6/8/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get an idea of which institutions intentionally collect piano
>rolls. And of the institutions that collect them (or have collections), are
>any of these collections cataloged or used?
>
>David
>
>David Seubert, Curator
>Performing Arts Collection
>Davidson Library Special Collections
>University of California
>Santa Barbara, CA  93106-9010
>(805) 893-5444 Fax (805) 893-5749
>mailto:[log in to unmask]
>http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/