Hi all,  Thanks Jody for including me in on this forum.  At your request,
here's my intro.....

As a child I was intrigued by my folk's Amipico player piano.  It stopped
working and being in my early teens, and quite reckless to boot, the
resident mom unit decreed the inside of the piano off limits to me.
Teenagers rarely do as they are told, and so while the parental natives
were gone doing their very rare occurance evening out thing, I'd take the
beast apart, study, analize, learn, figure out, wonder, poke, jab,
follow, trace, and generally do everything that MOM would have strung me
up for.  Then of course, I'd have the piano put back together before M&D
got back home.  To this day, it still doesn't work, but every trip home I
fix some more of it, only these days, with Mom's blessings.  I've fixed a few
since and plan to do a few more.
        Also as a kid, I tinkered with electronic things, learned ham
radio stuff, and took alot of things apart and didn't neccessarily put
them back together (except the piano).  So I gained some electronic
experience early on.  I then got into the electronic organ fixing business
when it was going strong.  After close to 15 years of that rat race, I
sold all my parts and said good by to that losing venture.  I'm still in
ham radio and I have a pretty good understanding of electronics.
        I've been fixing pianos professionally for over 20 years now and
I really like the automatic instrument repair field.  The more
complicated the better!!!  I have a tuning and repair business in the
Portland, Oregon area that is doing very well, and I install PianoDisc
retrofit player units with great care and desire.  They are a lot of fun!!
        For even more verbage about me check out my homepage at:

              http://pacifier.com/~larryf/homepage.html

and feel free to email me your questions, comments, creative insults or
whatever.

--- Larry Fisher RPT, Portland Metro's Authority on PianoDisc Systems
        For more information call (360) 256-2999 in Vancouver, Wa.
                      or email larryf@pacifier.com