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Warsaw Concerto - Theme (1947 piano roll)

Richard Addinsel's Warsaw Conceto was written for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight. Its enduring popularity ensured that when piano-roll production resumed after WW2 it was made into a new roll. Gordon Iles took over the lease of the ex-Aeolian roll factory at Hayes, West London, in 1946, when its directors decided not to resume production. He issued his first printed catalogue in August 1947: this roll was issued in September 1947. Iles may have made it, or based it on the QRS roll issued a year earlier but with added Themodist accenting. At this point Iles was issuing rolls under the brand 'Universal', the name of Aeolian's roll-production division. Iles' company was The Music Roll Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hayes Middlesex - 'Successors to the Universal Music Co. Ltd.' Production was by the original production method using stencils. Much of its output was from older stencils that had survived wartime bombing of the factory, with only a few new titles such as the present roll. These rolls were still made under under wartime materials restrictions, hence the over-thick paper (which causes a few unwanted bass notes at the start). The flanges on this roll are cast-Aluminium, reportedly made from melted-down aircraft scap. By the mid-1950s the business had been moved to Ramsgate, Kent, retitled Artona, and switched to a less accurate one-to-one copying process. These early Uiversal isssues are relatively scarce, so production must have been on a very small scale. Played on a Gotha Steck grand Pianola-Piano. Pianolist Julisn Dyer