I am looking for help with a Gulbransen player piano and located your
address on the Internet.

A friend of mine has a Glbransen Player Piano with the glued stack. The
three tier boards are glued and screwed (4 on each tier) to the chest
so I assume it is a "glued" player.  He had started to disassemble it
by ripping of the top tier board.  This resulted in chips, gouges etc.
Needless to say a challenge I should not have accepted to take on..

To make a long story short, I did manage to get it playing, but not very
well as the player could not maintain vacuum through various humidity
changes and was leaking within a year.

I am looking for help in locating a replacement stack for a Gulbransen.
Either a rebuilt "glued" stack in repaired/excellent working condition
or the screwed in pneumatic Gulbransen version which has been rebuilt
or can be rebuilt.  As I understand from reading on the Internet the
screwed in pneumatics are screwed to the tier board and not glued as
on the one I worked on.

   1) Can you advise me and/or provide a favorable lead?  or

   2) The owner would really like to keep their current piano which
      requires a Gulbransen player action.  However if a Gulbransen player
      action cannot be located I would like to find a replacement Player
      Piano with a Simplex or similar easy to repair action.  Preferably
      a piano and player already rebuilt, completed  and in fine working
      condition.

Thanks

Jerry Krzmarzick

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