Introduction
By Karl Ellison
Hi folks. My name is Karl Ellison and I live in New Britain, Ct. (of Stanley Tool fame). I'm 32, and work as a programmer at a small software house that makes a software product called a Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP-II for short) package that manufacturers use to make stuff with.
I own a 1917 Autopiano upright grand that I recently finished restoring. Everything was done from the vaneer to the strings to the pins (had help with this part), and from bellows to stack - it looks and plays like it came out of the factory. Well, it did for a bit. It seems that a forever unnamed piano supply company in Kansas touted a new material for use as facing on the secondaries, and it's not quite right. Sadly but properly, it's being done again, as if I've got the time. As life goes on, I'm finding out more and more that I should have listened to 1) My mother, and 2) Art Reblitz. Stay away from "space age" materials! Has the pipe organ industry hasn't recovered from the "Perflex" scandal of the '70s?
I've got about 250 rolls too; a mere spit to most of you I'm sure, but it's growing. Someone local boasts of having all of the first 1000 roll numbers put out by QRS, with the exception of about 12. I swapped one I had that he didn't for another he had and I wanted. I'm trying to filter out the junk and keep the good stuff, like any collecter would. "Good Stuff" is defined as having historical value/significance, or, it just sounds great at a party, even if your sober.
Anyway, I read all sorts of stuff on the topic of players. I'll relate some stories I've heard a local builder relate to me, and other neat stuff that might be of general interest to a wide audience, all of whom probably are AMICA members. I just joined this group, and are anxious to see what others have to say on the topic of mechanical music. I have a lot to learn from you!
- Karl
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