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Lester Player Piano Tracker Mechanism
By Doug Vensel

Hi again,  A bit more information for you all with respect to the
tracking problem I'm dealing with now.  I apologize for the pictures
I posted of the tracker pneumatic prior to recovering it.  It has
been done with new cloth and tested air tight.  Furthermore, the
little tracking "switches" on the tracker bar have been cleaned and
new leather applied to the small cut-offs.  What a job that was!

Anyway, thanks to two who replied I think I have it working now and
I just need to adjust it for roll centralization overall.  The feed
roll seems too far to the right but this is an easy fix.  I had the
transmission all apart for cleaning and restoring and may not have
gotten it perfect with respect to roll tracking.  This should do it
though.

Today I will find out.  I'll keep those of you interested up on it.

Doug Vensel


(Message sent Tue 15 Sep 2015, 13:07:15 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Lester, Mechanism, Piano, Player, Tracker

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