Joe M. Morris Piano Roll Collection, 1902-2006
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Katwijk, Paul van, 1885-1974
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Pianist, teacher, and conductor of the Dallas symphony orchestra....
Morris, Joe M., 1918-2013
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Joe Milton Morris was born on December 27, 1918 in Larkinsville, Alabama. He later relocated to Clovis, New Mexico and Lubbock, Texas, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Second World War. After the war, he worked for many years with the Texas Pacific Oil Company. Outside of work, he was a dedicated and prolific collector of piano rolls, player pianos, cylinder audio recordings, and other legacy media formats and mechanical instruments. Morris died in Dallas on June 16, 2013....
Scionti, Silvio, 1882-1973
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Silvio Vittore Alberto Scionti was born on November 20, 1882, in Acireale, Sicily, in Italy. In his early years, he studied piano with his uncle, and later studied with Beniamino Cesi at the Palermo Conservatory, and with Florestano Rossomandi at the Royal Conservatory of Naples. Scionti moved to Chicago on the invitation of Rossomandi's friend Enrico Sansoni, a violinist who wanted to start a music school. Another mutual friend of Rossomandi, Eugen d'Albert, recommended Scionti to John James Ha...
