Re: Tracker Bar with Extra Holes
By Georges Vaillancourt
Dear Jody
I am sending again the following message because I think that I did not not sent it to the proper address the first time. Is rolls@foxtail.com the proper address to get things posted?
Thank you,
Georges
At 23:30 96-11-07 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear George and Claude,
>
>I think that the tracker bar (and also the piano) you describe is very
>unique and very rare. When it is restored properly it will be "a real
>prize"
> ..................................
>-- Robbie Rhodes
>
>[ Please reply to both me and rollreq@foxtail.com . Thanks. ]
>
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Dear Robbie,
Thank you for answering so promptly. The brand-name of the piano is EVERSON, it was built in Oshawa, Ontario in 1928. The extra 14 holes are in line with the row of 88 holes and they are placed in groups of 7 on each side. The piano part is in excellent shape, it only needed tuning and it now plays beautifully. The player part seems to be in relatively good shape, we have managed to make it play after we replaced all the tubing from the tracker bar. We are currently having three problems, the first one is poor tracking which may be due to the damaged rolls that we have; the second one is unsufficient vacuum when using the pedals; and the third one is that some tubing is missing in many places and we don't know where the new one is supposed to go. The unsufficient vacuum is probably due to leaks in the bellows since the player works when we use a vacuum cleaner. Doing this is probably a bit dangerous because then we get too much vacuum.
Georges and Claude Vaillancourt
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