[dfwgator]

How many kids today would recognize "the Lone Ranger" (i.e. Rossini) Tchaikovsky, Liszt or Wagner? We knew them all.

"Eh, what's up, Doc? Who...? Franz Liszt? Never heard of him... Wrong number."

[Mygirlsmom]

My grandparents had an Aeolian Duo-art baby grand player piano. We thought it was a hoot - "pretending" to play like a virtuoso.

They had hundreds of music rolls - Gershwin playing Gershwin (how cool is that?), and my personal fave, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 played by Jan Ignaz Paderiewski - the definitive recording of that piece IMHO (most pianists think it's a race to the finish and they play it entirely too fast - it needs to ebb and flow).

When I was 12 or 13 my grandfather called me on my birthday and played the entire roll for me over the phone. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, but then again, I've always been pretty geeky.