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Introduction
By George Bovard

subscribe piano-roll gbb@creighton.edu

Greetings all. I got your info from Bill Jelen and the "Bam-Bam" page. I will include my introductory note to him here and now:

Hi, just found your page while "surfing" the net. Just yesterday we had the old family Gulbranson moved down from "the farm" It is serial # 247,### which I think puts it in '25 or '26. The stack and head were removed in the '60s to make tuning easier, I guess. My dream is to fix this puppy up. I have a book on player restoration and it looks like fun, but wow, what a big project! I looked into the bottom of it last night and everything was amazingly intact. The bellows on the pump and a few small controls are still whole, but they are so brittle that I'm sure they will tear as soon as they are exercised. I haven't talked grandpa into getting the rest of it out of the attic yet so I can evaluate it. I don't know much about pianos, though my wife plays some. Its sounds OK to me. After it settles we will have it tuned and evaluated by the local player guy to see what he thinks.

Anyway, I would like your catalog. Do you source materials for bellows and such, too. I own one piano roll, but it's a great one, "Redwing". Are there any player lists one the net?

Thanks,
George Bovard
9102 Poppleton Ave.
Omaha, NE 68124

(Message sent Fri 26 Jan 1996, 19:30:19 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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