Today I had the rare pleasure of hearing an in-tune, well-maintained
coin piano while visiting the Metcalf Sisters Antique Mall, on Main
St., in Newton, Kansas.  The piano brand was Brewster, and it seemed
like the player action was original to the instrument.  The piano had
a stained glass pane in the front board, which looked to me to be a
replacement from the original (probably more ornate) pane.  The piano
would play a song for 50 cents.

There was another coin piano there, of a different make (I didn't see
which make) that would play a song for 25 cents, but I didn't play that
one.  It looked somewhat older than the Brewster.

As to why I was there, I was looking for piano rolls!  They actually
had five, and I bought four of them.

There is something about hearing a player piano in person, versus
hearing a recording.  The real-life sound and motion cannot be
reproduced accurately enough by even the highest quality video.
As to coin pianos and any player pianos I have heard in person, this
particular piano figuratively "took me back" to the 1920s.

Luke Myers
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