Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info
MMD > Archives > February 2012 > 2012.02.18 > 01Prev  Next


Player Piano Help Needed
By David Row

I am your lone reader from Singapore, a dot of a country at the tip of
the Malaysian Peninsula, population five million (three and a half
million Chinese and one and a half million Malays, Indians, and
others).  The do-it-yourself man is a dying breed and people like me
with the desire to repair and restore musical machines are an
endangered species.

I am a retired school teacher, 80 years old, and am basically a
gramophone man.  I collect and repair rare gramophones.  While looking
for a gramophone club (I wanted to buy Red Raven records and a carousel
for 78 rpm records, both of which I am still looking for), I strayed
into the realms of radio and became a member of Antique Radio
Classified.  I stayed with them for a while, largely taken aback by the
awe and marvel of seeing thousands of radio designs, etc.

Then I did a give-back to society, presenting my version of Walk Down
Memory Lane, particularly for senior citizens, even though there are
only a handful of English-speaking people here.  Through that, I ended
up as a warehouse for broken-down music-making machines.  That is how I
got eight broken-down music boxes.  Then I joined the Musical Box
Society International (MBSI), because no one here knows music box
repair or wants to send music boxes overseas for repairs.

I do not read my email properly and I think I am fairly computer
illiterate.  I have been receiving the MMD since April 1, 2011, and
only today I discovered I can read the contents if I just scroll down.
So today I was able to read MMD 120215, and I saw an avenue to write to
you for help or advice on the following.

I am trying to rebuild the bellows of my pianola.  Also eight of the
piano strings have broken and need to be replaced.  Additionally, I
want to buy a copy of the manual for my Wertheim player piano, made in
Melbourne, Australia.  And last of all, I want to build an electric 220
volt vacuum pump for my Wertheim.

David Row
Singapore


(Message sent Sat 18 Feb 2012, 15:15:05 GMT, from time zone GMT+0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Help, Needed, Piano, Player

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page