Mendelssohn Fingal's Cave Overture

Fingal's Cave Overture was recorded in this four-handed arrangement by Rudolph Ganz and Ernest Hutcheson for a series of 'orchestral rolls', and issued in February 1925
The World's Music series of annotated rolls was a grand project of the Aeolian Company, driven by Percy Scholes to provide musical education (ideas that he further developed in his Oxford Companion to Music). Aeolian called the idea 'Audiographic' - today we'd call it multimedia, using the surface of the paper to convey visual information and perforations in the paper to convey the musical performance to the Duo-Art player-piano mechanism. The rolls were too expensive and the series ended in mid-1930. This particular copy ended up unsold in the roll library at Harrods in London, becoming part of Gerald Stonehill's collection in the 1960s.
The 'Popular Edition' Audiographic roll as seen here was iaaued at the end of 1927. It starts with with an introduction written by Percy Scholes himself. Then, throughout the roll there are two sets of running annotations - one in red describing the music's structure, and one in black describing the narrative (in a manner entirely typical of the 1920s).
Played on a Weber model 12 grand Duo-Art.

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A masterpiece also for piano roll

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Brilliant!