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Introduction
By Dave Geissinger

Hello:

I have been watching this list for a while and I guess it is time I introduce myself. My name is Dave Geissinger. I have a 1928 Stroud Duo-Art upright piano and about 400 rolls, 100 + of which are Duo-Art. I have owned the piano for about 30 years and have completely rebuilt it once and done minor upgrades since. It originally had only a single (accompaniment) set of expression pneumatics but I found a full Duo-Art set and converted it. Also installed a vacuum cleaner type pump which I don't care for much but I couldn't find a proper Duo-Art pump. I have also restored a Steinway grand Duo-Art.

I have watched with interest the discussions and descriptions of MIDI programs and so on, but I haven't a clue as to what most of it is about.
When you come from an era when radio was a great novelty you can't even translate the language used in the explanations.

Also of interest are the contributors to this list who make rolls. I once made a Duo-Art roll in an incredibly primitive fashion; translating the sheet music to a roll of lined paper with a pencil and then laboriously cutting out the perforations with a razor blade. It played ok but once was enough. I made a guess at the expression and pedal perforations. Slightly lower tech than what is being done by members of this list.

Well, enough. I am not very actively pursuing the rebuilding of players anymore, but I do enjoy reading what the rest of the subscribers are up to, and glad to find that Automatic Music is still alive and well.

Dave Geissinger


(Message sent Tue 12 Mar 1996, 01:47:16 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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