[ Please welcome new member Karl Petersen.  My thanks to Robbie
 [ for introducing Karl to us, and to Karl for subscribing and sending
 [ his bio on the same day.
 [ Jody

Hello Jody. Robbie Rhodes filled me in on your great work as 
communication facilitator in addition to several other worlds of 
activity. I appreciate your having the interest to be the majordomo 
for this work. Anticipating your including me in your forum, here is 
my capsule bio:

Karl A. Petersen. I have a 1936 Chickering Model 352 Ampico B in 
Meridian, Idaho. I previously has had Duo-Art, and Schultz Recordo 
grands in So.Cal. In college, I serviced tracker organs, studied 
keyboard instrument and organ design literature (mostly Audsley), 
restored a steeple clock and bells and built a 5 octave 4'+8' 
harpsichord (bits from Wally Zuckerman). Current avocations include 
maintaining a push-rod Jaguar saloon and digging up old relatives, 
genealogically speaking. I have a pretty fair reproducing piano 
literature library having collected and been in Amica through 1976, 
but have lost track of the activity since moving to Idaho.

My Ampico collection is cataloged on Nutshell and available, while the 
Duo-Art collection is in the care of Robbie Rhodes awaiting 
transcription into Ampico B if we live long enough. I am most 
interested in obtaining transcriptions and new recordings for the B, 
and would hope to be able to contribute something practical to that 
effort. The ultimate wish list item is a signature analysis 
transcriber to give a note/intensity record output from audio piano 
recordings that could be edited into Ampico B probably via MIDI for 
the widest practical audience.

I have degrees in architecture from Rensselaer, worked in avionics, 
human factors analysis and commercial product development for Lockheed 
divisions, developed steam cars through 1975 during the smog crisis, 
and have been in small electronic product development/packaging in 
Idaho. Publishing automotive journals and quarterlies as a home 
business seems to have blissfully become a thing of the past (fun but 
time consuming). Occasional trips to the SFO area and Illinois have 
been the norm, and I rarely get to writing letters, so email is a 
plus.