Reply to Don Teach [071107 MMDigest].  Don, I appreciate your points
and your appreciation of fine music.  I have been building players,
reproducers, and pump organs as a hobby for 45 years.

I have to admit I got more enjoyment out of the process of rebuilding
the mechanisms and turning a piece of dung into a beautiful piece of
furniture than I get from listening to the music.  If everything
functions and it plays every note and keeps an even tempo it's good
enough for me.

I believe there are a lot of people like me out there.  I truly believe
that if only the music aficionados owned players/reproducers there
would be far fewer of them extant.  People like me are probably car
nuts and boat freaks and we like to take apart 'stuff' just to see if
we can fix it.

I have lost the desire to rebuild anymore pneumatic units.  In the
present case the Ampico is tired but the piano is a beautiful piece of
eye candy in my living room.  The PianoDisc has the added accompaniment
feature and the music available will get more of a listen from friends
and neighbors than the old system.  Truly, 99 out of 100 people have no
appreciation of a reproducing piano over a player and they can't wait
for either to stop so they can go on with the party.

Different strokes for different folks.  As long as we can both enjoy,
Glory!

The Ampico is out and available.  The PianoDisc is 50% installed
(a piece of cake).

Keep em playing!
Rodney Diehl