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Re: Epoxy on Tracker Bar Nipples
By Terry Smythe

In a previous Digest I related how a friend of mine in British Columbia crated up and sent to me a pumper player piano stack (piano brand still unknown) that had theoretically been restored by another technician in his area about a year previously. The dominant problem was a ton of epoxy on the tracker bar nipples.

Quite a few MMD members have kindly emailed direct to me some very good suggestions for which I am very grateful. I will be consolidating these replies into a summary message after all is said and done.

In my original post, I appealed for a tracker bar containing sustain and theme accent ports, but failed to indicate that the bar should also contain at each end a pair of staggered tracking ports. It would be nice if the bar also had a soft pedal port, although I'm not yet certain if the piano is equipped with automatic soft pneumatics.

Much appreciate everybody's help.

Regards,

Terry

Terry Smythe smythe@mts.net
55 Rowand Avenue smythe@freenet.mb.ca
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3J 2N6 (204) 832-3982 (voice/fax)
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~smythe

(Message sent Mon 30 Dec 1996, 18:18:30 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  Bar, Epoxy, Nipples, Tracker

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