This afternoon the male faculty helped move the Gulbransen that
a parent "donated" to my classroom, and I am delighted with it.
It is in amazing condition, never been restored and from the look of
it it wasn't played much; hammers look like new, mandolin rail felt is
bright, all the ivories, paper labels on the roll mechanism, paper tag
explaining that the last four notes on each are dead, etc.  The price
tag is on the rear.

No rust on the tuning pins, sound board solid, melody indicator intact.
From all I can tell the piano is in good shape but it sounds like it
hasn't been tuned in many a year, I can't even find a tuner's card or
pencil dates inside.  Anyway the price was right.

I got the Reblitz book from the local library, no one has taken it
out since I borrowed it two years ago to see how to retube a tracker
bar for a friend.  Oh yeah, I have the original bench too.

The loop on the end of the "fishing line" part of the tracking
mechanism is broken, I am assuming it goes on the shaft below it that
is driven by the ladder chair, which connects to a wheel with a paper
label saying to use no oil.  It looks like I will have to look that
over a little more carefully.

All the expression is controlled by lever, not pneumatic, except
for one button on the far left which I am assuming is to control the
mandolin rail?  Or was it for the sustaining pedal?  The tubing for
these have dropped off and I haven't looked it over enough yet.  Guess
it will sit awhile anyway until I can do some reading and brain
picking before maybe doing something with it this summer.

Bob Hunt