I hate to explode Steve Marx's bubble, but unless you are awfully,
awfully good (even better than Art Reblitz) at restoring player pianos,
no player restoration will take less than a week. That is too small
an amount of time to address all the issues that a player might have.
Sure, you might be able to get an old player going in a week if you are
a "player-a-holic" and really, really want to get that player mechanism
to work, _and_ you know the _best_ way to do it, without making the
player worse. Doug Bullock said that a week is too little time;
I could not agree more...
"Oh, I thought you might take a week to get my player going; the
bellows boards are split, the soundboard is cracked beyond repair,
and the stack, which our kids have played with, has a big crack down
the middle, (inflicted by our dear little Billy, who did it in a fit
of anger) not to mention globs of dirt and roast beef bits that the
same kids have dropped down the pneumatic tubes.
"By the way, I forgot to mention that the kids also dosed the
tracker bar with J-B Weld, and poured contact cement down the valve
wells, in addition to slicing the pouches and pneumatic cloth in a
billion pieces. Our dear little Billy also wanted to use some of
the pneumatics as train cars for his Lionel train set, so he hacked
about 70 of them in half."
Luke Myers
ldmyers95@gmail.com [delete ".geentroep" to reply]
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