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Most Responsive Foot-pumped Player Pianos
By Douglas Heffer 

I found the Standard players very good, some Aeolians, Hupfeld Phonola
and some Pleyela and, in the end, player actions I have made for Pleyela
grand pianos.  Some instruments were impossible to restore due to the
auto-destruction of the cast metal parts, so I replaced them -- I made
complete new actions which came out very well!  You could pump the
"Ballet Mecanique" without being completely exhausted.

Best regards from Paris,
Douglas Heffer

(Message sent Sat 7 Dec 2019, 20:55:34 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

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