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My Life:

• Saint Peter's College-My undergraduate college where I majored in Accountancy
• Fordham University-My graduate university where I was in the MBA degree program
• City of Jersey City, N.J.-My home town for twenty years
• City of South Amboy, N.J.-Home of my player piano and me
• Hudson County Forum-Lively discussion from my home town
• newyork.sidewalk-The best on-line guide to New York City
• Radio City Music Hall-World's largest, greatest, and most historic variety theatre
• Palisades Amusement Park-the fondly remembered and great amusement park of the New York area
• Ground to aircraft radio transmission was first accomplished here,
• The carousel crankshaft which makes the horses gallup was invented here,
• The motion picture industry was centered here in pre-WWI,
• This was the site of the world's largest salt water swimming pool (with waves and beach!),
• This was the site of the world's fastest and largest roller coaster.
• Loew's Jersey Theatre-New Jersey's finest old movie palace.

My Career (mainframe programmer):

• COBOL-My primary working programming language
• Banking-My field of programming specialty

~~I am not allowed to tell you where I work--it's a secret.~~

My Interests:

Player pianos:

• Player-Care-John A. Tuttle's site-The place to get your player fixed and to purchase rolls
• QRS Music Co.-largest selection of player piano rolls in the world
• Andy Taylor (Tempola Rolls)-Hand arranged player piano rolls
• George Bogatko (Inlux Editions)-Composer and arranger of player piano rolls
• Karl Ellison's Page of Player Piano Links-excellent Real Audio recordings
• Artcraft Music Rolls-VIRTUOSO performances for all Player Pianos and 'Reproducing' Pianos
• Sam Harris's Player Piano Restorations Illustrated-Inspired me to have my player piano repaired
• Nimbus Records--Grand Piano (Real Audio recordings of reproducing grand pianos)
• Mechanical Music Digest-forum for discussion of player pianos and related instruments
• AMICA-Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association

Ragtime, Jazz, Stride, and Swing piano and other music:

• John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library-Inspired me to have my player piano repaired
• Biograph Records, Inc.-Great place to get CD-recordings of player rolls
• Past Perfect-CD music of the 1920s through 1940s
• RETROActive
• RETRORadio-Recordings of popular music from the 1920s through the 1940s
• Ragtime Piano MIDI files by Warren Trachtman
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive
• The Shellac Shanty-great recordings of vintage 78 rpm records
• Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine-best website for vintage 78 recordings




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