Welte's last roll: You Can Make My Life A Bed Of Roses, Fox-Trot, Played by Frank Milne

You Can Make My Life A Bed Of Roses (Lew Brown, Ray Henderson), Fox-Trot, from Florenz Ziegfeld's last show, Hot-Cha! Played by Frank Milne, Welte-Mignon (Licensee) Reproducing Piano Roll Y-75571. This is the last Welte-Mignon piano roll produced, issued May 1932. Frank C. Milne (1888-1959) was a Scottish-born pianist who became a very skilled piano roll arranger. A native of Dundee, Milne studied at the conservatory in Edinburgh. In 1905 he emigrated to the U.S. He married the Scottish-born Theodora in 1912. By 1917 he was an arranger for the Aristo Roll Company in Belleville, New Jersey. From standard player rolls he went to work for the Aeolian-American Company, making Duo-Art reproducing piano rolls. He was able to create a lifelike performance using his knowledge of music combined with his knowledge of roll editing. As a pianist his name regularly appeared in radio logs published in the Schenectady Gazette in 1922. He is listed as a pianist in the radio guide for WOR in New Jersey in April, 1929. In 1930 he was the manager of the Aeolian Company. By the mid-1930s he was the only one arranging for the Duo-Art and AMPICO companies. He was so prolific at making piano rolls he utilized several pseudonyms throughout his career. In 1942 he was employed by the Q.R.S. Piano Roll Company. He and his wife resided in Belmar, New Jersey, where they raised two children, Alexander and Jane. He died at age 71 on May 22, 1959.