I would like to thank Wayne Tougher for his encouraging thoughts to
Larry Broadmoore.  I know that there are many enthusiasts still waiting
for their PowerRoll units to be delivered, but look at the history of
PianoDisc in Sacramento CA: they initially shipped "unfinished
incomplete" units to dealers with the promise of "fixing it later",
_which they did!_  Yes, it took some time to eliminate the bugs and
get the recording feature to function accurately but, jeez, they had
an army of inexperienced piano techs with little or no experience of
player actions installing them.

I remember the first one I saw installed in a Young Chang 5' grand that
had so much lost motion between the solenoid stack and piano action it
sounded like a hailstorm every time you turned it on.  That piano was
sold by a local dealer here in Tacoma and it was properly and expertly
fixed by the technician that initially installed it after he attended
the course offered by PianoDisc.  I was not that person, nonetheless
I was astonished at PianoDisc's commitment to make things right, when
at the time I merely thought of the company being a cheap knockoff of
a Yamaha Disklavier and slowly vanishing into the realms of useless
piano attachments.

So take heart, PowerRoll owners, and don't sell Larry too short --
things can change.  I never met Mr. Broadmoore and I've never seen the
actual product demonstrated.  I only know what it is suppose to do and
know that it does not, at least not yet...  Our "hobby" to most
MMDer's is my profession, and I would be saddened to see a great idea
flushed down the tubes.  Here is a unit that can preserve our precious
and priceless recordings that are part of uniquely American history and
that should not be overlooked.  I hope Mr. Broadmoore's contraption
takes a turnaround soon for his sake and reputation, not to mention the
value of historical preservation.  There are few pioneers/pianoneers in
this field and we should all understand that every one of us has had
"issues."

Good luck Larry; hope you can put things right -- it's not always easy.

Eric J. Shoemaker