This may not be a good or practical suggestion, but I'd like to ask for
comment on it and see if anybody cares to discussion it.  Why doesn't
MMD put a notice on their home page that old unrestored player pianos
are available very cheap at certain places, mainly in music stores in
the old big cities "back east," as us New Mexico folks would say?

Fix it so the web surfer could click on it and draw up a list of music
stores, etc. where they're at.  Several places have already been
mentioned by various contributors.  If MMDers that know where these
give-away and near give-away players are would send in the information,
I would think a fairly good list might come of it.  It might save a few
old player pianos and draw a number of people that have an interest in
these instruments into being active participants in our hobby.

My thinking is that there are a lot of people out there that would like
to be able to acquire an unrestored player piano cheaply but don't know
where to look, _and_ those people have access to MMD via the Internet.
Even though it's probably only a small percentage that join and make
themselves known, there must be thousands of people with an interest in
player pianos that have stumbled on to MMD.  MMD is easy to find.  When
I first got my computer and barely knew how to turn it on, I made my
first try at using an Internet search engine and used the word
"pianola."  This got me MMD in about 10 or 15 minutes.  Does anybody
have any comments?

Regards,
Dick Merchant,
Carlsbad, NM

 [ My comment: I don't recall anyone writing to Jody or me asking where
 [ to buy a player piano in _any_ condition.  Most of the letters ask
 [ "How old is my piano" or "How much is my piano and collection of rolls
 [ worth?"  If a clearing house exists somewhere for unwanted player pianos
 [ I can place a reference and a link at the MMD Sources site.  -- Robbie