This is a view of the #8-B in the ARTCRAFT Studio in Maine. There is a large auxiliary cabinet for 16 spools of paper - which can be duplicated while 'reading' a Master Roll - for this machine, but ... large rolls of 11 1/4" pretrimmed paper went off the market around 1980. Until then, I perforated the first 16 new releases on this machine, and then sent the Master to the West Coast for duplicating. Today, it's used for making new rolls only ... or (as  shown below) for reading/remastering old ones to achieve the standards of our Interpretive Arrangements.

    The arranger is not limited to copying a roll exactly, as the perforator's manufacturer suggested, since one can "read" and ignore the original perforations ... add new material ... and/or make an entirely new roll, often using the same notes but giving them the effervescence and panache of rolls which bear the ARTCRAFT label.

    This is the Leabarjan which was used to make the ever-popular NEW KING of RAGTIME Medley-Overture and the 1991 arrangement of BALLET MÉCANIQUE for Swedish TV-Radio and subsequently revised as a copyrighted ARTCRAFT release.

    Most of our Interpretive Arrangements are created on the 3 Model #5 Leabarjan perforators, as they are lighter and easier to use. The cast iron parts of the #8-B are massive so require more muscle power, when moving the punch around in a single measure of music.